Starting the daughter out with her own built underhammer

[gmww]

As some of you know, my daughter built her first Underhammer action. She's 11 and we will be getting her started at the range soon. I want the recoil to be a little as possible starting out. However, the calib. needs to be sufficient for deer out to 60 yrds. max.

I'm debating on .45 or .50 in PRB. I was thinking the .45 will be a lighter recoil but I'm also thinking the .50 for a slightly better wound. What would be the min. recipe for either calib. on deer?

 

[Little Wattsy]

As some of you know, my daughter built her first Underhammer action. She's 11 and we will be getting her started at the range soon. I want the recoil to be a little as possible starting out. However, the calib. needs to be sufficient for deer out to 60 yrds. max.

I'm debating on .45 or .50 in PRB. I was thinking the .45 will be a lighter recoil but I'm also thinking the .50 for a slightly better wound. What would be the min. recipe for either calib. on deer?

My 7 and 9 year old sons shoot my .50 Cal's just fine. (They love to shoot and are both pretty accurate with my grey hawk / New Englander with its 24" barrel off shooting sticks or a rest.) The Recoil is managed VERY EFFECTIVELY with powder charge and the "heft" of the guns should be similar given the barrel length is the same. The DIFFERANCE is that you can "grow into" the .50 all the way to elk or bear. I think the .50 will be and IS more versitle with NO down side for "small" or youthfull shooters.

 

[huntertrapper]

im not an expert but i only have a .50 caliber flintlock i use and it has no recoil really at all and i shoot 90 grains, my sister shot it when she was about 11 and hit the bulls eye at about 50 yards and flintlocks can be hard to pick up but she did it fine without any recoil trouble so if .50 is what you want i think it would be a good choice, when shooting at deer theres no recoil anyway, :thumbsup: