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I also took a friend hunting who hadn't been since he was a kid. In his home state, they always used shotguns and he didn't have a gun to use here. (I had several that he could have used and I should have insisted.) Someone at work heard he was going deer hunting and decided to "help" by lending him a Ruger 10-44 carbine. He shot three times at a doe less than 50 yds away before the gun jammed. The sound and motion of him trying to clear the jam finally scared the deer away. When I got him down out of the stand, he handed me the jammed gun and told me the story. I cleared and safed the gun and then noticed that the rear sight was folded down. He was pretty animated and that part was fun to watch.
Lesson learned: when you take someone hunting, make sure the know how to operate their gun and have them sight it in while you watch.
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