Sks and 7.62x39 for deer for youth or small wife

[john 800]

In many areas of the world where children are raised to do more strenuous things than play video games, or their phones, the average twelve year old wouldn't bat an eye at packing an eight pound SKS into the hills to slay whatever he or she might find.

My youngest is pretty tiny for her age, i had to look up a height and weight chart and look at to put it in perspective both to convey my point and satisfy my own curiosity on where she stands physically. The average 12 year old girl is just under 100 lbs, when i was a kid 12 was the age to hunt. Now its 10, she will be 10 in march so she can hunt next year. She is just over 50 lbs which puts her in the bottom single digit percentage wise for a 9 year old (never mind she is only a couple months short of 10, maybee she will hit a growth spurt) that said, she is freakishly strong for her size, she came on a wilderness canoe trip with me and carried her pack up and down the trail and never complained and she will do pull up after pull up until you are tired of counting them, she has been in gymnastics since she was in preschool and does well there, but i am thinking we will put her in a blind with the rifle on a trigger stick

 

[David Milisock]

A freind of mine has a pretty clean sks he offered to sell me for $300. I was thinking that is probably more than a fair price in thos day and age with the option to buy a pile of ammo with it for another couple hundred dollars. I am thinking of picking up the rifle and ammo and that it should work for deer hunting with the right bullets, i have 2 girls and a pettite wife that have some intrest in trying deer hunting. Looks like tbe round should do the job at short woods hunting distances. Anyone have experience with it as a deer round?
I have some h322 i think, so if i could round some .310 dia hunting bullets i should be in business.

If the SKS is in good shape the price in my area is more than fair. As far an SKS as a deer rifle, I wouldn't with new shooters for dozens of reasons mainly because the SKS is great for close quarter minute of man but compared to a Marlin 30 30 or a properly sized bolt rifle more difficult to shoot accurately at hunting ranges.

It's very hard to beat the 30 30 on deer sized game within 200 yards. Easy to carry, shoot, light recoil and more than enough cartridge.