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With the possible exception of firearms use, the Boy Scouts do a fine job of teaching outdoors skills if the adult troop leadership is on its toe. Some BSA camps include marksmanship (.22s) and safe gun handling in their programs as well.

First deer Many of the American Indian peoples will, upon killing an animal for food, first kneel down by the slain animal and thank its spirit for its noble sacrifice, that the hunter's family now would have food. Not such a bad idea, I think.

Kids hunting Don't know what the rules are now, but when I was a lad (back when rocks were still warm and soft), Oregon required all minor hunters to complete an NRA hunter safety course. Most of the local gun clubs offered such a course for a very nominal fee. I no longer hunt, due primarily...

Oregon elk hunting For hunting the coast range: Brush and replanted trees are now so thick that it's almost impossible to penetrate on foot. I suggest a stand on the downwind side of a clearcut that has had some chance for the browse to recover. For the Cascades, depends on which side of...

Lion shot from a tree stand--.30-06 will suffice. Rhino? I'd probably want that recoilless 75mm cannon that someone else posted on another thread. And for a charging Rhino or worse, cape buffalo, I'd feel better with a howitzer. What I'd really feel better doing is staying home in front of...

.30-06? If the recoil of the .30-06 bothers you (it does me), try the Remington or Browning semi-autos, perhaps with a recoil pad. And don't be too quick to add a scope--if you're hunting in brush or heavy timber, 100 yards will be a long shot, anyway. A good peep sight will be your friend...

Deer rifle I'm with Smartshot. I have an old Savage 340 in .30-30 that my dad bought right when they first came out--1950. It was his first postwar deer rifle. Later, he bought a Remington 740 in .30-06, screwed it up with a scope (we hunted almost entirely in woods or thick brush, often in...

Spanish Mauser Odd. I have an M93 Spanish Mauser ("sporterized"--I really HATE that word) and it sho' 'nuff has two front locking lugs. What it lacks, compared to the M98, is the third "safety" locking lug at the rear, which actually makes no contact unless the front lugs fail. Shoots just...