Taking out non stalkers

There is another brit in my Jagdhorn group who had transferred to BMW during the Rover years over 20 years ago and is a passionate trumpet player, he was in the Territorials when he was younger and got to do some stonking with Hereford types and some fun house work, his stated preferred weapon of choice was a Sterling.
But he has no hunting licence and was curious about shooting so at the weekend we had our local free day at the local big range. First off he cut his nose on my scope with the first shot but afterwards I put him on the trap range with my Merkel 16G o/u whereupon he from two boxes a total of 50 shots made at least 25 hits. Now he seems to have caught the shot gunning bug and that at 57 years old.
BTW afterwards with my box of 25 I hit two.

50/50 seems to be about success rate on skeet!

CAVHUNT said:

fixedwheel said - Jeez, you have some seriously fecking tough deer there, if it needs a .338 Mag at 30 metres!!

The .308 and .30/06 are the most popular calibres amongst sambar hunters but the .338 is a popular choice as well. But calibre creep doesn't stop there. It's not difficult to find sambar hunters using a diverse range of the big bor/magnum calibres from the .338 up to the mighty .458 magnum.

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There is a very big difference between deer species. In the UK our deer are really pretty small. Even our largest Red Deer are mostly small compared to those in mainland Europe where a 300 kg stag is not exceptional.

I understand the Sambar deer down in Australia easily go to 350 to 400 kg and they are tough. In Asia they are the favourite food of Tigers.

As for taking out novices / non shooters and muzzle awareness, I very much stick to only putting a round in the chamber when a shot is imminent - ie when you are expecting a deer to pop out or final stalk in.

Try setting up a simulated stalk- set out a few targets over a route and stalk them. Good way to teach a novice the basics around safety and how to stalk and lets them get experience of rifle handling and shooting under close supervision. I’ve organised for non-shooting mates a few times, all of whom wanted to learn about stalking and shooting, but didn’t necessarily want to kill anything that was alive.