When I was way younger, I asked my father if I could shoot his Browning-Belgium .380.
"Sure" he said.
We went out to our woods and he loaded one single round, which he allowed me to shoot.
He then took me home and proceeded to teach me how to break it down, clean it and put it back together. I could not discharge that weapon again until I was able to do it myself.
God help us if there was ever an unclean weapon on the racks.
It would have been better if you had fired the rifle (.308? -- if you shoot it you could hit a crucial component and render it inoperable....