Rich Hoch gave me two kid rifles years ago...

by Paul , Tuesday, April 09, 2013, 07:44 (4191 days ago) @ stonewalrus

one was an old Winchester '67 with a Mossberg scope on it. He'd cut down the stock and the barrel and it was just right for teaching kids to shoot a scoped rifle. It wouldn't group worth beans, but proved marvelous for first shot hits "way out passed Fort Mudge". The other was an old German air rifle, break barrel. I don't know what the length of pull was on either of them, but he kept pieces of the air rifle which were inserted back into the stock as the kids grew. It's STILL got a very short length of pull but works great for kids to learn to shoot with. uncowboy's suggestion of drilling locator holes prior to cutting the stock is a good one. If you set up a good jig to cut by so as to keep everything square then you can readjust the stock in one inch or so increments as the kid grows by re-installing the cut off pieces.