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Im a sucker for wood stocks, love my Tikka Hunter, they do make the Tikka T3 Lite in composit.
good advice around. Savage or Ruger both are great. In MHO the 243 is a little light for deer go with 7mm08 and you wont go wrong.
Reminds me of a couple of friends that were argueing about calibers,one shooting a 7mm/08 and the other saying it was too small,the second fellow had a .260(Which is a 6.5/08)!Can't go wrong with either.Probably so in Canada. Not sure where the OP lives, but the .260 I pointed him to would be a great youth rifle with no handicap when he grows up to an adult, Especially if he gets into handloading. The same could be said for the 7mm-08.
I personally am not a big deer hunter but figure my son wants to go and give it a try (he is 12) so I want to get something he can use and I can use if I want it for Coyotes if I don't want to take my RRA. If down the road he gets into it I will buy him a better rifle and just keep this one for when I want a light weight rifle, if he does not get into deer hunting, no problem at least he got a chance at it and we have something different to shoot from time to time.
My big hang up on rifles is accuracy
Have you checked out the "Appleseed Project for your son? I took my son last year. Awesome program. He was a good shot, but definitely improved a lot thru the two days. I would recomend it for both juniors and adults.
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Thank you- never heard of it before and it looks like a great program. I am going to see if they have anything in our area coming up!