For a little girl, a child, I think all wooden 10/22 stocks, either factory or aftermarket, are too heavy and too THICK.
They may be strong, but they're clumsy and fat and hard for small hands to grip properly.
I took a standard 10/22 birch stock and cut its length of pull down to 12" for a kid, a boy about 7 at the time, and
I had to really work a lot with a chisel, rasp, and then power sanding tool to get the stock thinner, especially in the wrist / dominant hand grip area. I wish somebody would make a factory-built stock of the proportions that my rather ugly homemade job had when I got done-- but with a nicer finish.
A cheap hollow plastic / polymer / synthetic stock is probably light enough.
If you can't find in a "youth model" size with a shorter buttstock (length of pull),
you might have to cut it down, fill the hollow cavity of the now-exposed inside of the butt
with some Great Foam (spray-in crack sealing foam that expands). You can glue a thin rubber butt plate on the back end to hide the ugly foam after it dries and you trim the excess.
They may be strong, but they're clumsy and fat and hard for small hands to grip properly.
I took a standard 10/22 birch stock and cut its length of pull down to 12" for a kid, a boy about 7 at the time, and
I had to really work a lot with a chisel, rasp, and then power sanding tool to get the stock thinner, especially in the wrist / dominant hand grip area. I wish somebody would make a factory-built stock of the proportions that my rather ugly homemade job had when I got done-- but with a nicer finish.
A cheap hollow plastic / polymer / synthetic stock is probably light enough.
If you can't find in a "youth model" size with a shorter buttstock (length of pull),
you might have to cut it down, fill the hollow cavity of the now-exposed inside of the butt
with some Great Foam (spray-in crack sealing foam that expands). You can glue a thin rubber butt plate on the back end to hide the ugly foam after it dries and you trim the excess.
