Sporting Shooter

The Young Gun

Charlie was getting good scores at the local range with his Lithgow .22LR, so I knew he could shoot. Living on a small farm also allowed him to practice with his dads Tikka .308, which he would use on the bigger animals.

dad, Jeremy, gained access to a new deer property just before the fallow rut, so we were half way there. The first visit saw Charlie getting information overload when I showed him rubs, scrapes, scat and tracks and explained the hows and whys of everything. With no

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