H4895 reduced loads,
out shoot the boys.
With the "long action".

The simple answer is put a suppressor on it if your worried about recoil.

What has the 90 pound 11 year old girl shot before.
Without much shooting experience with centerfire rifles, I'd be concerned about ruining her for life if she didn't have her shoulder and cheek planted firmly in the stock. That gun won't fit her. While my 270 doesn't kick as much my 30-06, it will punch the snot out of a child.

I love 25-06. I definitely would use the snot out of it if I won one. If my kids won one I’d let em shoot it and see how it goes. They might think it’s great or it might beat em up. They’re just like adults, some love some recoil others can’t run away from it fast enough. Some rifles weight and geometry make em sweet shooters others kick like a mule. My 110lb 10yr old can certainly shoot my 6.5 creed. But I’d limit his shots depending on angles and probably not over 150yds. Whereas my little 6ARC he’s taken out to 400yds and I’d trust him to shoot deer out to 300. He begs to shoot it. If a guy can afford it, I don’t see the need to push a kid into bigger cartridges unless the target species demands it. Youth elk hunt, yeah sure, work that kid into a 308 or 25-06/ 270, but for little whitetails and even mulies I think a confident kid that can thread the needle and put that bullet where it needs to go is the priority.

All my girls got 30-06 Remington 700s as their first rifles. None of them were large for their age at 12 yo. They handled the recoil just fine and shot 10x 10s at 100 yds. Good hearing protection, rifle ergonomics and proper stance go a lot further in taming recoil than does caliber.

Yup...straight to the mule kicking 30-06 for a 12 year old..

Mule kicking??? A whopping 4 ft-lbs difference between that mild recoiling 25-06 and the mule kicking 30-06.

I wonder how you describe the 300 win mag or a 375 H&H or 458 Lott???

I just bought my daughter a Weatherby vanguard black hills edition 25-06. I was surprised at how little it recoiled with 110 grain bullets. But it does have a muzzle break on it. Recoil is almost same as my 788 6mm. Rifle shoots extremely well also

huge 25/06 fan. i've killed approximately 50 deer to date with the round and a dozen wild hogs up to 273#.. Recoil is extremely light. I have the Remington 700 SPS and it loves projectiles in the 100-110 range. Won't shoot a 115-120 grain projectile worth a darn and I put a lot of work into trying to get to! I've settled on 110 grain nosler accubond loaded up hot.. Early on using factory ammo (remington core lokts) I had to trail several deer up. I switched to the 110 accubonds loaded hot and trailing stopped.. They were generally in a pile where the bullet hit or at best a 20-50 collapsing dash, Had one big, mature 6 year old buck absorb the round in the center point of the chest facing me make it 100 yardsish.. .243 is great, but a .25/06 loaded up and smoking will make deer hunting a lot of fun. Use hearing protection for practice, but thats a given for any round. If there is a negligible difference in recoil over a .243, your youth will never notice it on live game. My .02 anyways..

I was looking for a left handed yout model rem 700 in 243 for my daughter when she was 8. I called ever shop iI could find within 200 miles. One shop had one in 7mm-08. I was unfamiliar with 7mm-08 and conserned about the recoil my daughter was and still is small. I took it and had it threaded and put a suppressor on it and its turned out to be my prefered and favorite rifle in the house.

J girls are smaller then men as adults and youth stocks fit adult women better often. Order an after market youth stock with a quality soft recoil pad. Let her shoot it and see what she thinks. Worst case its a bit much for her and you put the full size stock on and your boy shoots it for a while. As she grows she may decide ahe likes if you put the youth stock back on.

She may love it but is going to like it best if it fits her so start off with it fitting her. That will also make the recoil impulse hit her correct.

I Never like seeing a small kid being put behing dad's or grandpa's full sized way to big 06 and developing bad flinches or geting gun shy. YES thats how it used to be done and if lucky they cut the stock down. Today its pretty easy to order a nice shorter stock with quality recoil pad.

Load some 80gr barnes in it and let it rip

NOT happening. Spend 1000 plus on a 399 rifle?

Both girls are used to shooting a marlin 30-30. Last year oldest one hunted with my 6mm. I also have a 788 222 one of them can use. BUT the son wants to let the youngest use it. I'm mounting a scope and zero it later this week. We will see.

Can get something for 600 thats decent. Just comical to see your post about recoil after your posting about suppresors and recoil. And the suppressor doesn't have to stay only on one gun. Are you going to get a stock that will fit her and make the shooting more enjoyable?

When you mount the scope have her shoulder the gun and adjust scope in the rings for her so it doesn't black out being to far forward from her small size. I do this by having the kis mount the gun with optic several time and put a piece of tape on the stock where theit check bone contacts the stock. Then I put my cheek bone there when adjusting the scope in the mounts. I have see to many scopes mounted by men that are not in the right spot for women or kids when they are shooting. It will black out on the edges and make it hard for them to find the deer in the scope if not counter for them.

Marlin 30-30 delivers a good thump. Ought to be fine with 25-06

Years ago I bought a 25-06 in a Ruger mod 77.

I couldn't get rid of that gun fast enough. I hated the report and that rifle beat me up pretty good. My 7 mm mag was much more pleasant. It may have been the configuration of the rifle more than the caliber.

Also, that caliber was wholly inadequate on bull moose. I can't imagine why I bought it in the first place

Noise will probably be more of an issue than recoil... They do crack.. Make sure she uses good hearing protection while getting familiar with it. The one shot needed to take her seer won't bother her at all

She'll be fine...
BUT...j says surpresser are BAD...lol

Forgot to add I loaded some light 30-30 for them to shoot. Not much more recoil than a 222.

Yes not spending 1000 bucks to have the barrel threaded plus can. Then the entire process to end up with a rifle longer than she is tall. You guys want it go for it. I THINK IT"S STUPID LOOKING and not practical. Never asked how to reduce recoil just wondered if too much for an 11 year old GIRL. Since it's basically a 30:06 necked down i know it will be too much for her . . Son can hunt , shoot or sell the 25:06. Not putting either one of my little darlings thru 1 shot to see if recoil is bad. Not like the only options they have.