We had a great trip jim!
On Saturday we didn't get set up until 730am and we landed on a great spot. These are the only pics we got. Camera gave up the ghost after 3 or 4 pics and never came back to life. From now on I will make sure to bring a backup camera.
I brought my video camera and never broke it out. I should have, because there were many opps for some good footage.
This was the first time my boy has been out for prairie dogs and I think he's ruined. He impressed me tremendously with his knack for long range sighting and shooting.
We blew through 10 boxes of shells pretty quick (3hours) with tons of great shots. It was big fun. The problem is that you only get 300-350 yds as yours closest shot.
Most dogs were killed at 400-600yrds.
That was the best part. Apparently my loads are working out.
anyways, the coyotes were on Sunday and we have no pics of them, but next week I will be prepared and I'm sure we we will have success again.
I didn't have my wssm handy for the coyotes, but the 223 was very effective. If you could have your bench,rest,chair,rangefinder, and gun all setup to call coyotes every time it would be easy! These meatheads started barking at us as soon as we set up and wouldn't shut up...or move.
We had all the time in the world to do them in. The hold over was pretty scary but as much time as I have spent fooling around with this gun it was a no-brainer after we ranged them.
The 55gr VMax was devastaing at 800yrds!
The second one ran to us and stopped at 600 yrds to bark some more. He died the same devastating death.
The 3rd was out cruising around as we moved to a new stand and was easy prey at 200 yards just standing there.
It as pretty warm on Saturday and we were done at noon when 2 huge storm cell came in. One from the North and one from the south...It looked as if they were going to converge righ over our stand so we made a quick take down of the shades and tables so we could make a run for it.
Sure enough...not a minute after we got in the truck it started POURING! About a minute after that the cell from the north met up and it was on!!!
Big fun!
Heres the only pics we got.
Our escape..The wall of water is right where we were a few minutes before.
One unlucky contestant that wandered through the set.
The boy was watching through the binos when I shot,I asked him "Where did he go?" and he says..."He blew up"
This is the only piece that was big enough to pick up, much less post.
Thats about it for now. We'll be back next week with cameras and we will show descent pics for that outing.
Good luck everybody!