Here's another option. This is what I did for my son. I bought him a Thompson Center Encore Pro Hunter in .243 to start out with. He was 10 also and about the same size as your son. He had no problems shooting it and accuracy was great. A couple of years later I bought the 7mm08 barrel for it and swapped them out. He's been hunting with it ever since and is now 16. Overall the recoil between the 7mm08 and the 243 isn't much different. The Tikka T3 is a great rifle. I've been hunting with 7mm08 since the round came out in 89. It's my favorite all around deer cartridge. With a good bonded bullet or a solid copper one it's good up to elk sized game.
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