Bought one for my son, he was about my age when I got a 22 revolver. Went with the birdhead grip as he liked it better,then ended up putting one on my black hawk.
Issue is its not very accurate, tried several ammos, all the same. It came with a 22mag cyl, but huge gaping throats. A cast 80gr I use in my AR flops around in the throats. The LR is a better, but not much. Then it has this weird forcing cone. Not a real shallow one, w 11deg angle. But more like a cone, it will swallow most of a loaded 22lr before hitting rifling, so if you measure its like a judge with over an inch of free bore before it starts to spin. And likely canted as it come out of the throat and hits that 1/2 of nothing before the rifling.
For my son do doubt he will get to worked up over accuracy so long as it will hit a can. But not very impressed with it. Plus the stupid safety. May trade it for a better Ruger.