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Mossberg Blaze with Green Dot Sight – MSRP $ 265.00<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kids need special rifles because kids are small and do not have a lot of arms strength. Sure, you teach them to first shoot – to learn to manage a trigger and work with sights – from the bench. But eventually, to really enjoy shooting, a kid will want to stand up on their hind legs and shoot just like you do. To do this they’ll need a rifle that is light enough for them hold up.<\/p>\n

Another thing I can tell you after teaching all my children to shoot is that a red dot sight is the best way to get them started. It uncomplicates the entire process of explaining sight alignment and you don’t have to concern yourself with eye relief.<\/p>\n

Mossberg’s line of Blaze rifles<\/a> are affordable and reliable. They are plenty accurate for plinking or small game hunting at reasonable rimfire ranges. And, they are light enough that a kid can hold them up. Mossberg offers one that comes out of the box with a red dot style sight. Heck, they even have a tactard – AK style Blaze<\/a> –\u00a0which just might be the most fun of all 12\u00a0versions offered.<\/p>\n

You can pick up the least expensive Mossberg Bantam Blaze – with a shot length of pull for kids<\/a> – for well under $ 200.00!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kids need special rifles because kids are small and do not have a lot of arms strength. Sure, you teach them to first shoot – to learn to manage a trigger and work with sights – from the bench. But eventually, to really enjoy shooting, a kid will want to stand up on their hind legs and shoot just like you do. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2522,2500],"tags":[519,297,2618,2619],"class_list":["post-13131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunt","category-shooting","tag-ak-47","tag-kids-rifles","tag-mossberg-blaze","tag-rimfire-rifles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3pN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11070,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/mossbergs-new-mvp-scout\/","url_meta":{"origin":13131,"position":0},"title":"Mossberg’s NEW MVP Scout","author":"gunwriter","date":"January 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We can trace the beginnings of the scout rifle concept to about 1966. 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