2 distance groundhog shots with the 22-250: 285 and 303 yds

Hunting groundhog for years here in pa, love the challenge I killed one at441yards. With a gun built. It was 6mm-06. O3 springfield with 28 in heavy Douglas xx. Was shooting 55 granny ballistic tips at4200fps. Kill lots of hog with it
 
I don't know, can't remember my longest 'chuck. We nail at least a few over 400 yards every time we go out though. Over 500 not too uncommon. Over 600 once in awhile.

- DAA
 
Spurchaser said:
Are they that smart you can’t get closer??
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Yes, but no. They do get quite spooky. Sometimes even before the shooting starts - usually means they've been shot at before. But mostly, it's us and our preferred method of operation. We stop in a spot, start glassing, and shoot what's available from right there, without bothering to move.

Usually, we'll start a spot by taking some at under 300 yards. Then when either we feel we've put enough hurting on the close ones already - we always leave some for seed - or, they all go down and stay down, we start taking the longer shot opportunities. When we get bored, we move on to the next spot, rinse and repeat. As a general rule, we try not to shoot more than half of what we see. Leave seed for the future.

Back when we used to shoot a lot of private fields, we would try and kill them all, that was the price of admission to the private ground. Had a couple of days with over 200 'chucks doing that. With 50-100 being typical. Have not shot on private for a lot of years now though. Like I say, we only shoot what we feel like now, and that's usually around 50 a day. We're pretty relaxed and casual about it, not making any real effort to put up any numbers.

- DAA
 
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