6mm06
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This morning I went out for a bit of predator calling. I went to the family farm and set up in a place that has been productive before. I've previously taken a bobcat, gray fox and two coyotes from this location, so I thought I'd give it another try.
After calling for a while using various prey sounds, I switched to a Gray Fox Pup Distress. I didn't call fox, but the crows sure did like the sound. Several circled over the area, but since I was wearing snow camo and not moving, apparently they didn't see me. Some landed in the tree at the top of the photo, at 100 yards or slightly more.
I was hunting with a Remington model 7, .243 shooting 58 gr. V-Max bullets. I've been getting some acceptable accuracy with that load on paper recently, so I thought I'd try it out on predators. When the crows landed in the tree, I couldn't resist taking a shot. It dropped like it was hit by a streak of lightening, and the V-Max wasn't very friendly to it.
It was a good morning even if I didn't get any predators. Looks like this has started my crow sniping adventures again for the winter.
Let the crow sniping begin.
The chair is from GCI Outdoors. It has a nice backrest, making shooting from a bipod easy. The backrest stabilizes my movement quite a bit.
Here is a YouTube clip of some crow sniping I did last year, if you care to see it.
After calling for a while using various prey sounds, I switched to a Gray Fox Pup Distress. I didn't call fox, but the crows sure did like the sound. Several circled over the area, but since I was wearing snow camo and not moving, apparently they didn't see me. Some landed in the tree at the top of the photo, at 100 yards or slightly more.
I was hunting with a Remington model 7, .243 shooting 58 gr. V-Max bullets. I've been getting some acceptable accuracy with that load on paper recently, so I thought I'd try it out on predators. When the crows landed in the tree, I couldn't resist taking a shot. It dropped like it was hit by a streak of lightening, and the V-Max wasn't very friendly to it.
It was a good morning even if I didn't get any predators. Looks like this has started my crow sniping adventures again for the winter.
Let the crow sniping begin.
The chair is from GCI Outdoors. It has a nice backrest, making shooting from a bipod easy. The backrest stabilizes my movement quite a bit.
Here is a YouTube clip of some crow sniping I did last year, if you care to see it.
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