I am currently shopping for a new youth rifle for my son and have already made one mistake. I purchased a Rossi Trifecta match set .243 - .22 - 20ga. The .22 worked great and he loved to shoot it. The 20ga. we called the Hammer of God! It kick the s*** out of us. The .243 shot everywhere. It would be 20" high and then dead center then low and so on. The break over would stick so bad I would beat it with fencing plyers to get it to release. $150 worth of different ammo, new scope mounts, 2 scopes and 3 gunsmiths later I took it back to the gun dealer for a loss. This brings me to today. I have a Remington 700 .243 LT Youth set back but have also looked at several other brands (Weatherby, Savage, Howa & Mossberg). I don't want a single shot and I want to have something with the shim stock for growth plus the opportunity to purchase a full size stock for later. This gun will also be a pig hunting date gun. I could use any input ya'll have.