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It sound as though your daughter is OK with the concept of the hunt and is willing to participate. The major issue is the use of a at best marginal caliber by an innexperienced participant. The suggestion of a more potent combination of a .223 or a .357 carbine( I think you mentioned a single shot break action) with heavier game purpose bullets will be good insurance to avoid a potential debacle of lost deer due to,marginal termnal performance--Remember everyone is trying to come up with a load that probably does not exist due to low power potential and too light for purpose bullets. Chances for less than perfect bullet placement for younger shooter are to great. A light unstable bullet in shoulder blde or humerus might not get into chest cavity. Probably more deer lost to "neck shot" than actually recovered. We know respondents can kill them that way because they have and told us so--but a lot of neck shots dont show effect and run off to die late secondary to infection. If you can get a barrel or borrow one of these heavier duty arms-still low recoil- the potential for succesful hunt will increase tremendously. Starting kids intro to firearms and working on respect for them cant hardly start too early.
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