My cousin and I have done this before. You definatly don't want to go out with someone you don't literally trust your life to, but its one of the most tacticool, fun, times you can have.
Its defiantly legal, but make sure of what your looking at before you pull the trigger. Accidents have happened locally in the recent pass. I'm not at all trying to insinuate that you would be reckless in any way, we've all just got to make sure were being safe.
Glad to see him bag his first. It's also a great story, your doing a great thing for him. I'm sure it will pay back ten fold in your life, and the lives of the people he meets.
Its a bacteria, so is brisalatosis *sp on hogs, wash your hands, wear gloves, what ever tickles your fancy. It's def an out there dinner, but I'll take a bug eating armadillo over a trash eating possum, raccoon or bear any day