NVBighorn
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OK, this is a serious question. How many bullets do you take on a hunt where you are 200 miles from home and no where near a store and will be gone for as long as two weeks????
Here's the deal. I am taking a friend on a hunt in a couple weeks. It's a primo tag, basically once in a lifetime. But here's the catch. This hunter has never hunted with a rifle before. She has killed several deer and antelope with a bow and has hunted all her life. She can glass as well as almost any guy I know, she knows how to stalk and is in good shape. She is borrowing a rifle from me and we have been making weekly trips to the range to shoot. She shoots remarkably well. Possibly better than I do. She handles the gun like it's becoming second nature and has exhibited no flinch even when I tested her. She consistently puts all her shots into the kill zone at any range we have tried so far.
But!!! Here's the catch. If ANYTHING goes wrong I am going to feel like crap and like I'm responsible. With the shortage of powder and reloading components I have been concerned I might not end up with enough loaded ammo after all the practice and zeroing in. I have sort of solved that issue and have what should be enough of the final hunting components.
So tell me... how many bullets? Most likely the hunt could end with one shot fired. But then again I have been in situations where bad things happen and it takes a lot more. Scope gets knocked off, animal is wounded, buck fever... lots of things can go wrong. I'm just a worrisome old Basco and this is my current concern.
Here's the deal. I am taking a friend on a hunt in a couple weeks. It's a primo tag, basically once in a lifetime. But here's the catch. This hunter has never hunted with a rifle before. She has killed several deer and antelope with a bow and has hunted all her life. She can glass as well as almost any guy I know, she knows how to stalk and is in good shape. She is borrowing a rifle from me and we have been making weekly trips to the range to shoot. She shoots remarkably well. Possibly better than I do. She handles the gun like it's becoming second nature and has exhibited no flinch even when I tested her. She consistently puts all her shots into the kill zone at any range we have tried so far.
But!!! Here's the catch. If ANYTHING goes wrong I am going to feel like crap and like I'm responsible. With the shortage of powder and reloading components I have been concerned I might not end up with enough loaded ammo after all the practice and zeroing in. I have sort of solved that issue and have what should be enough of the final hunting components.
So tell me... how many bullets? Most likely the hunt could end with one shot fired. But then again I have been in situations where bad things happen and it takes a lot more. Scope gets knocked off, animal is wounded, buck fever... lots of things can go wrong. I'm just a worrisome old Basco and this is my current concern.
