You guys are really having a ball putting it to the groundhogs!
My hunting has been limited waiting for beans to come up, or hay to come down. I did get out last weekend and picked up a new farm. Pickings were slim, but I did find a mother and several little ones with a den near a manure pile. The range was only 125-130 yds. and I popped the mother first, then waited on the offspring. Within five minutes, I had two of the young ones down. I didn't take pics with the camera, but did with the iPhone.....now I need to figure out how to get them to photobucket! I guess I could email them to my computer, etc. Maybe later....
Then on the way home I stopped by a farm where last year we only used the pellet rifles for safety reasons. Sod poodles were everywhere, but all at distance...except one, 64 yds:
That ended me with four for the day and 20 YTD.
FF to yesterday, went back to the new place, and picked off another one near the manure pile with the 204. I also shot one with the pellet rifle under 40 yds., but it made it down the hole, so it didn't count.
I left there and headed to a farm I've been hunting since 1970. The hay had just been cut around and between beanfields, and targets were everywhere!
It was still over 90 degrees at 6:00PM so I set up in the shade of the truck and a round bale:
Some views of the area:
All shots under 250 were made with the 204, everything over 250 was handled with the swift. I missed one shot on a pup at 396 yds., but all the others were hits. I killed two at the 396 hole a little later. The results of the day:
Ten in the back of the truck, and one I could see down the hole, but no way my arm was long enough to reach it! I'm counting that one, though
Notice the pellet rifle leaning against the hay bale....there was a hole complex about 30' away, and the groundhog would stick it's head up, but when I moved it would drop down the hole! Curiosity was it's undoing! I had to shoot it left handed/left eyed, but it got shot with the pellet rifle! It did make it down the hole with a neck shot, but I didn't count that one either
. Eleven counted for the afternoon making 31 YTD.
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