With all this talk of him shooting and you retrieving, perhaps you should get him out to a couple of field target shoots. 14 months is a good amount of time to sort out gear like rangefinder and trajectory and any eyesight issues. Contact gillie and organize to go to his shoot at tarata in the spring. They had a hunter class course there and it's about 2km of walking on farm tracks. Also taihape branch have a nice shoot which would be within a long day trip distance. The preparation will be as much fun together as the trip itself.
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