Thread: New rifle for goat control/sons first rifle

Been awhile since I've posted here, had to rub the cobwebs off with this post which I know should attract interest, so her indoors has given me the green light for a new boom stick, I'm feeling the 223 as it'll be used to shoot goats etc and sons first gun, so it needs to last, be good quality, not blued, set trigger or even if there are triggers avaliable, it'll be suppressed, and what optic would you go with? Thanks in advance