Thanks Grendell. Do you think that Scout is too big and heavy for her? What I don't like about Crickett and Henry small bolt is that they have separate cocking action. In my opinion it just adds an unnecessary level of complexity. She will have her little hands and head full already with operating trigger, safety, finger, bolt, pointing rifle properly, safety rules, adding manual cocking on top of that becomes too much and counter intuitive later on. More importantly it becomes counterintuitive to me now, I am well engrained with traditional bolt actions and prefer to stick with a system that I can operate on autopilot and focus my thinking on what she is doing that way I can keep it safe and fun. Any other smaller rifles that offer traditional bolt setup.
