Or you could rent a car and within a few hours be someplace where theres lots of elk.
Send some rounds at rocks with some (real) guns at (real) distance.
Get to see and use equiptment you (will) want to take back with you.
Be glassing at up to 2 miles from the front yard.
And the room and board would be free.
And as a bonus you would see first hand just how much of a B S'R that old sob really is lol.