Christmas toy gun?

[bearheart]

You folks have given me good advice in past so I thought I'd toss this question out. I want to buy a Christmas present for a good friends little boy. He is just abit over 3y.o., smart as a whip. They live up north and his dad is a serious hunter. He has more trophy animals than you can imagine. Anyway the kid wants a toy rifle for Christmas. I am looking for something safe for his age, sturdy, and "cool" for a three year old.Ideally , I would love a wooden rifle with smooth edged metal fittings, a clicker trigger, All I can find so far is plastic junk. Thanks!

[epicZERO74]

http://www.cabelas.ca/product/38485/remington-700-cdl-375-hh-magnum-100th-anniversary-edition-bolt-action-rifle

[cash12]

http://www.cabelas.ca/product/6817/cabelas-pop-guns

[Tikka270]

http://www.cabelas.ca/product/38485/remington-700-cdl-375-hh-magnum-100th-anniversary-edition-bolt-action-rifle
hahaha! Start him off small eh?

[rudysteelhead]

My youngest of three is around the same age as your buddies kid. I just recently bought them all (1 to share) a RUGER Rascal .22 cal. About $170 and is super small and fits the young ones just right. I know its a little more than a toy gun, and likely out of the budget range, but good to keep in mind.

[Mulehahn]

I know it is stereotypical (a christmas story), but I got my niece a Red Ryder BB gun when she was about that age. It was a little long so i cut the stock off. I was actually quite surprised at how accurate and powerful it was. It will go clean through a pop can at 10yds. It taught her basic gun safety, but the lever was stiff enough that she couldn't operate it herself.

[Tikka270]

My youngest of three is around the same age as your buddies kid. I just recently bought them all (1 to share) a RUGER Rascal .22 cal. About $170 and is super small and fits the young ones just right. I know its a little more than a toy gun, and likely out of the budget range, but good to keep in mind.
The rascal is made by savage. I bought my daughter one last year and it is a dandy little rifle, had the accutrigger and all.

[Bugle M In]

I know it is stereotypical (a christmas story), but I got my niece a Red Ryder BB gun when she was about that age. It was a little long so i cut the stock off. I was actually quite surprised at how accurate and powerful it was. It will go clean through a pop can at 10yds. It taught her basic gun safety, but the lever was stiff enough that she couldn't operate it herself.

x2, for my daughter as well, and cut down the but of the stock as well...

[E.B.]

Surplus Herbies sells small wooded guns that shoot elastics. He will have fun with that if they have a cat, lol.