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05-04-2016, 09:53 PM | #1 |
Rock chucks
Western version of the groundhog, just slightly smaller. Little buggers will clean a cultivated field off for 30 yards from the edge. I found a farmer that wants me to come shoot them.
Yesterday 41 bit the dust for a total of 110 so far in the last 5 weeks. 17 misses yesterday. I'm getting sloppy.
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05-04-2016, 11:19 PM | #2 |
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sounds like that farmer had a problem with the rodents good practice helping him get rid of them
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05-04-2016, 11:26 PM | #3 |
It is a varmint hunters dream. huge field, completely surrounded by lava flows with no houses nearby and hundreds of chucks. I'm getting lots of shooting and reloading practice.
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05-05-2016, 12:35 PM | #4 |
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Reminds me of my teenage years when we'd go shooting gophers (technically Richardson ground squirrels) in the neighbor's pasture with a 22 rifle. Lot's of fun!
The little buggers could make quite a mess of a field and the neighbor was always worried about one of his cows or horses stepping in one of their holes and breaking a leg.
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Me and my wife was out in the yard last fall looking at the trees when she spied a squirrel peeking at us between a fork in the tree. She said watch this. She pulls her .22 takes aim, and blows his head off. She thought. Then he sticks his head up again and she fires and said, got him that time. I said, no, he ducked again and you missed. Ha Ha.
Well. she fires all six rounds and he's still peeking at us. So she reloads and tells me to go down there and run him around the tree. I say, why don't you do it yourself? She said why don't you do what the woman with the loaded gun tells you to do? So, I go down yonder around back of the tree and they was six squirrels with no heads on the ground.
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I shot a squirrel in his nest once...Fell out of the tree with a boner. He was laying pipe with a lady squirrel when I hit him in the head with a .22 silver jet pellet.
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05-06-2016, 01:16 AM | #8 |
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Sounds like its time to put on the :
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Here in the plains areas it's prairie dogs.........the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands have lot of dogs and shooting is allowed all year long. .17 WSM with a 6x24 scope is good to at least 400 yards.
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Reckon i would be a bit fearfull around a woman like that mate.
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05-06-2016, 01:57 PM | #11 |
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So you're telling us they were dying to get their little heads blown............................................. .................................................. ........off
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I like to push the envelope. Stick my hand in the water and tease the piranhas.
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05-08-2016, 08:45 AM | #13 |
I've stopped counting, the carnage continues. This place is definitely the honey hole of rock chuck hunting. Let's just say I'm getting lots of target practice and my reloading technique produces quality ammo.
Kawhead, don't argue with that woman.
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I wasn't. He was sitting in a rotted out hole stuffed with leaves as a nest. He was giving it to her from behind and both of them were looking out of the hole.
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