Is it wrong to let someone else get first blood with a rifle?

Gatehouse

Gatehouse

CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Rating - 100%
145   0   0
Location
Pemberton BC
There is a good sized bear that my buddy keeps seeing near his place. I've seen it on video and I htink I'd shoot it...

Anyway, he just bought his first bear tag, hunted for years, but never bears.

I'm really interested to see what happens when Mr Bear meets Mr 375 Ruger, so I am offering it to him to use on Mr Bear.

Is it wrong for someone else to get first blood wiht your new rifle? Will it jinx the rifle i any way? Will it give the rifle good karma?

Deep thoughts here....
 
It might suck all the mojo out of it, what happens if he misses the first animal it gets to shoot at.

If that happens, teh 375 ruger will no longer be the king of all 375's I say move into his house until yo shoot it.
 
Gatehouse said:
There is a good sized bear that my buddy keeps seeing near his place. I've seen it on video and I htink I'd shoot it...

Anyway, he just bought his first bear tag, hunted for years, but never bears.

I'm really interested to see what happens when Mr Bear meets Mr 375 Ruger, so I am offering it to him to use on Mr Bear.

Is it wrong for someone else to get first blood wiht your new rifle? Will it jinx the rifle i any way? Will it give the rifle good karma?

Deep thoughts here....
Click to expand...

You do type much better when you've had a few ;). Sorry but I still don't understand this .375 Ruger thing. Save your brass.
 
It shouldn't matter, unless he misses of course.:evil: Then it will be forever tainted and you'll have to dump it cheap on the EE.:(
Actually, letting someone else use your rifle before you do is a unselfish gesture. He must be some friend.
 
If he kills the bear the rifle will possess positive karma for life and be eager to take game and will love you since you are the father . If buddy doesn't live up to the rifle and misses or in other ways screws up the positive karma is gone and the rifle and you will never become one . Sell it or throw it in the lake but don't put it in the safe with the other rifles . Bad karma is infectious . It needs a baptisim of blood but there is no second chance to make a first impression . If you're sure that buddy can deliver , lend it to him but if he screws up , he just bought it .
 
Notwithstanding the naysayers, I think those are good questions.

I think you should sight in the rifle, with YOUR handloads, so you KNOW it can shoot. Your buddy should be present to witness this. Then HE should shoot the rifle, with your handloads, with YOU present. Now you both agree that the rifle and the ammo are just fine, and any subsequent FUBAR on his part should not strain your friendship.

Now here is the part that I think you MUST do to invoke good karma for the gun:

On a night of a full moon, with the hunting ammo in your LEFT hand pocket, find a well-rotted stump full of rainwater. Rinse your testicles in the stump-water, three times, and rub the ammo against your left testicle each time, taking great care not to allow the cartridges to touch your right testicle. Then dry yourself and the ammo, put the ammo in your RIGHT hand pocket, while backing away from the stump. Now place a large paper bag over your head and walk around the stump six times six, all the while clucking like a chicken.

Your gun's karma will remain intact no matter what.

Doug

PS) I'm serious!
 
Doug said:
Notwithstanding the naysayers, I think those are good questions.

I think you should sight in the rifle, with YOUR handloads, so you KNOW it can shoot. Your buddy should be present to witness this. Then HE should shoot the rifle, with your handloads, with YOU present. Now you both agree that the rifle and the ammo are just fine, and any subsequent FUBAR on his part should not strain your friendship.

Now here is the part that I think you MUST do to invoke good karma for the gun:

On a night of a full moon, with the hunting ammo in your LEFT hand pocket, find a well-rotted stump full of rainwater. Rinse your testicles in the stump-water, three times, and rub the ammo against your left testicle each time, taking great care not to allow the cartridges to touch your right testicle. Then dry yourself and the ammo, put the ammo in your RIGHT hand pocket, while backing away from the stump. Now place a large paper bag over your head and walk around the stump six times six, all the while clucking like a chicken.

Your gun's karma will remain intact no matter what.

Doug

PS) I'm serious!
Click to expand...

I think it's rince the testicles four times. Geeze Doug get it right. Back to the corner you go.
 
That's good advise Doug but the truth is that Clarke lost his left nut during the horse-wreck fiasco last year. An alternate "karma-booster" is needed I think.
 
"...hunted for years..." If he's hunted for years, why does he need your rifle? There's nothing in North America that needs a 375 anything to kill.
 
Hmm... The way I see it is it would be good karma... After all, it's not like the rifle hasn't been test fired, they do that at the factory don't they...

Cheers
Jay
 
Be careful Gate, I loaned old meat-in-the-pot to a buddy and he took two big bull moose and a 150 class whitetail with it before I managed to get it back two seasons later! I had carefully worked all the misses out of that rifle a decade earlier and was lucky he didn't re-introduce any...whew!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom