sharkathmi
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Greetings All
I went up to the ranch to shoot some more pd's today.
They are getting purdy scarce now and the ones left go down and stay down for a long time.
This may have been the last time I go up there this year, at least for pd's.
Anyway, it was still a very good day, seen lots of nice stuff.
Here are the highlights:
For part of the day I was using my Savage just for the fun of it. I gotta say I really like the suppressor.
I love shooting without muffs on.
This is actually my coyote rifle I was just checking zero on.
And it was still right on.
A large hay baler came by and started making bales, so I moved to a new area.
While on the way I came across 2 of these...
Wood chuck, Groundhog, Marmot....I don't know.
They are off limits so they lived to see many more days ahead.
As I'm approaching the next spot I'm kind driving east and looking into the sun.
For a second I thought I was the sun illuminating through some ears, but wasn't sure of what I was seeing.
Just then this young coyote stands up not 25 yards from the truck, looks at me and starts to walk off, seemingly not alarmed.
It's about 60 yards away in the picture.
I may have to go back this fall and try to call him in!
Once I got to the next area, I was glassing and would take a shot every now and then.
Just like last time, right in the middle of the show here walks this badger right through the shooting area!
Sorry for the poor quality picture. That badger is the blob in the middle of the pic, up in the dirt area.
On to a new area.
So I get set up with the RRA PPR and start to glass and range.
Again, targets are between 320 and 375 yards.
This time I have a drop chart that shows me how many clicks to adjust for at any given range.
I range a pd, adjust and fire.
First round hits at roughly 340 yards!
I range another, adjust and fire.....a miss, but not by much.
Adjust again, fire and a hit!
I don't even want to talk about the next pd or rounds fired!
Here are a couple more that I got before I headed home,
This one was a big fat one, very big for this place.
This one you can see where my first round hit him in the right elbow and the second one hit him square.
I was amazed at how close the drop chart was.
I may not have hit each pd dead center with the first round but I was still hitting them as evidenced by this blood trail on the left side of the hole.
If Jesse Lakey would have been here with his big 50BMG, stuff like this wouldn't happen!
This wasn't all of the pd's shot today, just the more photogenic ones, of the ones I could find in the brush.
So between the Canada Geese, some big hawks, the marmots, the coyote, some pheasants and all the pd shooting it was a pretty good day!
Well, if you made it this far, thanks for reading!
Mark
Nominated for August Hunt Of The Month
I went up to the ranch to shoot some more pd's today.
They are getting purdy scarce now and the ones left go down and stay down for a long time.
This may have been the last time I go up there this year, at least for pd's.
Anyway, it was still a very good day, seen lots of nice stuff.
Here are the highlights:
For part of the day I was using my Savage just for the fun of it. I gotta say I really like the suppressor.
I love shooting without muffs on.
This is actually my coyote rifle I was just checking zero on.
And it was still right on.
A large hay baler came by and started making bales, so I moved to a new area.
While on the way I came across 2 of these...
Wood chuck, Groundhog, Marmot....I don't know.
They are off limits so they lived to see many more days ahead.
As I'm approaching the next spot I'm kind driving east and looking into the sun.
For a second I thought I was the sun illuminating through some ears, but wasn't sure of what I was seeing.
Just then this young coyote stands up not 25 yards from the truck, looks at me and starts to walk off, seemingly not alarmed.
It's about 60 yards away in the picture.
I may have to go back this fall and try to call him in!
Once I got to the next area, I was glassing and would take a shot every now and then.
Just like last time, right in the middle of the show here walks this badger right through the shooting area!
Sorry for the poor quality picture. That badger is the blob in the middle of the pic, up in the dirt area.
On to a new area.
So I get set up with the RRA PPR and start to glass and range.
Again, targets are between 320 and 375 yards.
This time I have a drop chart that shows me how many clicks to adjust for at any given range.
I range a pd, adjust and fire.
First round hits at roughly 340 yards!
I range another, adjust and fire.....a miss, but not by much.
Adjust again, fire and a hit!
I don't even want to talk about the next pd or rounds fired!
Here are a couple more that I got before I headed home,
This one was a big fat one, very big for this place.
This one you can see where my first round hit him in the right elbow and the second one hit him square.
I was amazed at how close the drop chart was.
I may not have hit each pd dead center with the first round but I was still hitting them as evidenced by this blood trail on the left side of the hole.
If Jesse Lakey would have been here with his big 50BMG, stuff like this wouldn't happen!
This wasn't all of the pd's shot today, just the more photogenic ones, of the ones I could find in the brush.
So between the Canada Geese, some big hawks, the marmots, the coyote, some pheasants and all the pd shooting it was a pretty good day!
Well, if you made it this far, thanks for reading!
Mark
Nominated for August Hunt Of The Month
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