Hello distinguished fellows,
The possibility of being accompanied by a good friend of mine on my next whitetail deer hunting trip, this upcoming fall, has me questioning which tool I should recommend him to use.
He is 36, in good shape, strong enough. He has never hunted before and is relatively new to the world of firearms. The only firearm he possesses is a Benelli Nova pump twelve gauge shotgun. He says this gun can be used to hunt anything we might hunt (not exactly true, shotguns are not allowed for caribou), and he sure is right to think it can be used to harvest deer.
I have been hunting for a little more than twenty years, I own a rifle I could lend him, a Remington 760 Gamemaster in .30-06, topped with some kind of a ghost ring (it was given to me that way ).
I think it would be better suited for the purpose of deer hunting, especially since we have not yet decided where this hunting trip would take place and therefore cannot predict what the terrain will be like.
Bearing in mind that I would very much like him to succeed in his first hunting experience so that he becomes even more interested in hunting and eventually a good hunting buddy, do you think it would be appropriate to insist a little for him to take the rifle or not at all, that I should, much to the contrary, let him hunt with his own gun?
P.s. He is not the greatest shooter, but he surely would be able to take advantage of the rifle in my humble opinion.
P.s. 2 I know most deer I have harvested were killed within shotgun range.
P.s. 3 Slugs are allowed, but sabots would be a waste in his smooth bore gun.
What do you experienced gents think about this?
The possibility of being accompanied by a good friend of mine on my next whitetail deer hunting trip, this upcoming fall, has me questioning which tool I should recommend him to use.
He is 36, in good shape, strong enough. He has never hunted before and is relatively new to the world of firearms. The only firearm he possesses is a Benelli Nova pump twelve gauge shotgun. He says this gun can be used to hunt anything we might hunt (not exactly true, shotguns are not allowed for caribou), and he sure is right to think it can be used to harvest deer.
I have been hunting for a little more than twenty years, I own a rifle I could lend him, a Remington 760 Gamemaster in .30-06, topped with some kind of a ghost ring (it was given to me that way ).
I think it would be better suited for the purpose of deer hunting, especially since we have not yet decided where this hunting trip would take place and therefore cannot predict what the terrain will be like.
Bearing in mind that I would very much like him to succeed in his first hunting experience so that he becomes even more interested in hunting and eventually a good hunting buddy, do you think it would be appropriate to insist a little for him to take the rifle or not at all, that I should, much to the contrary, let him hunt with his own gun?
P.s. He is not the greatest shooter, but he surely would be able to take advantage of the rifle in my humble opinion.
P.s. 2 I know most deer I have harvested were killed within shotgun range.
P.s. 3 Slugs are allowed, but sabots would be a waste in his smooth bore gun.
What do you experienced gents think about this?
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