Knob Creek
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I see the Daisy Red Ryder BB guns are all over the place for sale this year. Now made in China. Considering a BB or pellet gun for my six year old grandson. Are there better choices with better quality available?
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This. Jack.I would wait a year or two and get him a .22. Spend the time in between teaching him safety rules. Gauge his interest.
Daisy been made in china for many many years, The daisy Red Ryder and likes of the lever action are not well suited to teaching young kids. The lever is hard to cycle the trigger is awful and the sights suck. That said I learned on a red ryder in my basement 7 yrs old. My dad made me memorize tbe "10 comandments " of gun safety, read the entire owners manual and use the instructions for shooting fundamental s. Then said i would have to shoot nice groups moving on. Even with the heavy blanket and cardboard those BBs found ways to bounce and my Dad banned BBs and bought us pellet guns.I see the Daisy Red Ryder BB guns are all over the place for sale this year. Now made in China. Considering a BB or pellet gun for my six year old grandson. Are there better choices with better quality available?
I picked up a buck in hopes it smaller size would be better for my kids. They went at it for about 50 BBs and turned to me and said. "Can we just use your dad?" So out came the 853 and Discovery....Went to Wally World a while back and got my oldest a Daisy Buck. It was cheap and it's fairly accurate. He started using it when he was like 5 and he couldn't shoot it until he recited the gun safety rules to me(which we did while walking)
my daughter at 7 went to the savage rascal after a year with the pellet guns. Good thing about thecpellet guns is not needing to go somewhere to shoot it. 10m is all you need. Pick up some 10m targets , its harder than it looks.Got my 5yr old a Crickett .22 this year. Both he and his 7yr old sister have shot that, my Rossi .22 pump and my AR9
Its not that much smaller than a standard. Its 13" lop which is long for a lot kids under 1 2. The grip to trigger length is the same as a full size makes it hard for small hands to get a good grip.Henry makes a youth 22
Do they make then with rifled barrels any more? Years ago I modified my 760 with walther barrel. I put 10s of thousands of BBs through original barrel.crossman 760 pumpmaster! Great first bb/pellet gun. It was my first and my daughters first bb gun.