I had today off, so made the most of the afternoon in search of more groundhogs. Little wind this afternoon , for a change! I spied this one hog on top of his mound in an alfalfa field, range was 412 yds. Set up the bags, steadied the 204, and fired shot one. Looked like a hit, but couldn't tell, hog looked like it was knocked into the hole, but not really sure. A minute later, the hog appeared out of another hole, maybe ten feet from the first....so I'm thinking I missed the first time! When he stood up, I fired again...heard a nice "shawump" echoing back, but couldn't see any critter lying in the alfalfa. A few more minutes later, I see another hog, between the two holes, but maybe twenty yards back, so I take a shot at that one, but see him run, I missed. After fifteen minutes, the suspense was killing me, so I walked out to the holes expecting not to find any dead critters...but, found the second one I shot at missing the top of her head, lying in a low spot, cool. Then I checked out the first mound/hole and there was a two inch wide blood trail going down the hole. Closer inspection on my hands and knees revealed a tail just out of reach! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif Sometimes it pays to make the long walk out to inspect even what we think might be misses!
Added one more later just before the rain started, guessing around 275yds, didn't range that one.
That brings me to seven. The weather looks lousy for tomorrow, but Monday and Tuesday are looking pretty good!
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