You all nailed this one. For one, he told me that he got all of this from watching some show called "Best of the West" or something like that, where they do that type of stuff. I tried explaining what reloading could do for him in terms of reputable ammo, but he's not really interested in hearing all that.
He thinks he can go blow $4000 and get a rifle and scope, sight it in at 100 yards and go kill elk that next weekend, "at 600 yards", according to him. Everytime I try to talk to him about practice and reading wind, it just goes in one ear and out the other.
I'm just about at the point of dropping this conversation with him and leaving him up to learn on his own. I have very little patience for people that not only don't know what journey they are about to embark on, they could care less what you have to say about it. Especially when he called "me" for my opinion. I told him I researched long range shooting for about 3 years before I ever considered buying a rifle. And at the end of the 3 years I decided that without a proper place to practice weekly that shooting long range was just not practical.
When I was a know it all kid my dad used to say, "You will learn, you're just learning the hard way"
Sorry for the story that was the "long story" I was trying to keep "short"