Hope my attachment works. A story about my short range efforts.
Gary
Had a great day yesterday After returning home from a overnighter and a wedding I got some shooting time and decided to check out my bud's mini farm around 2pm...he has Ground hogs all around his property and out buildings and is surrounded by vacant farm property that is overgrown with brush and weeds. His back 40 is a cornfield this year. The property has numerous oak trees and of course has squirrels working on them. Did I mention coons? plenty of them for night sniping.
Anyway I wanted to check his live trap and look for GH activity....my weapon of choice was my BSA Lonestar and newly mounted Bushnell Trophy 3x12 DOA.......................What a killer combination, I can now shoot with complete confidence out .to 50 to 85 yards! While scouting I noticed a fox squirrel working a tree top approx 100 feet up and lasered at 51 yards I sat down set my homemade short shooting sticks made of tomato stakes and set scope on 12 power and zeroed on the back of his head. Squeezed the awsome smooth BSA trigger and WOK .....soild contact one dead squirrel. I harvested him and headed back tothe ranch.
My plan for after dinner was to check a apple orchard that I have permission to clear out ground hogs.When I got there some folks wore moving equipment aroung tomake room for some new apple bins No problem...had a good conversation with the owner about his additional 60 acre farm and rabbit hunting
Moved on to the mini farm around 7pm. Upon arriving I grabbed by sticks, rifle and pellets and proceeded to scout the edges of the property for ground hogs....... sure enough while hugging a fence line that is covered by high weeds and trees from adjacent lot ther is a GH standing up 20feet away from me! he was in the other property and ran to a vacant delapited barn and dissapered into the rubble. Same place I shot one with my 22 mag earlier this summer. I decided to back off and wait him out and hide behind a fence row/tree line.
While waiting I set up my primos tripod and hunting seat,drank some cold water and lit a cigar......................LIFE IS GOOD!
Now I am not the most experienced GH hunter ,but I usually wait 20 mins and kinda check out the GH hide area. I adjusted the the scope AO down to 15 yards and mag down to 4. Just as I creeping along the fence line the GH squeezed through the fence and was in my bud's pasture about 10feet......................and 30 yards away, you guessed it.......AO NEEDED TO BE RESET.."dang". while doing this the GH ran back to the field
Reset another 20 mins and I noticed a movement about 90 yards coming out of the cornfield and walking to the tree line. I put the scope on it and it was a feral cat looking to terroize the local rabbits. Sure enough the darn GH COMES BACK TO THE PASTURE while I'm looking at the cat................no problem I adjust AO 50 yards breeth slow put second dot on GH's base of skull ....steady,steady, squeeze and THUMP ,DOA one roll and tail twitches for a few seconds.............the whole time the cat just sat ther and watched the whole thing right in front of him...LOL.
I set back took a sip of cold water and relit stoogie. Then called my bud to come harvest the JUVY Hog. I lasered from hog to my shooting station and it was 57 yards! Did I say I love this scope.