Couldn't help but tell the story of this long-range badger shot. It was actually 3 shots in a row at 460 yds. I spotted the guy at maybe 1500 yds. or so whilst scanning an east slope of a prairie drainage in the late afternoon with sun exposing everything on it practically using my Leica Geovid 10X's. The best of glassing conditions, really. He was just milling aroud a flat so I thought to head straight toward him and get up high for a shot as I descended into the ravine. I got to the edge of the ravine and climbed to the highest point and reacquired him in the binoc. I got set up prone off the bipod, and lasered him at 460. I referenced the dope I'd calcd. for the 53 gr. V-Max at 3500 along the 22 long-rifle ballistic reticle in the 2-7X Bushnell AR optic, and got set up for the shot. I think it was interpolated at 1.7 dots down from 225 x-hair axis zero. The badger was kinda' flat looking as I was about even with him, but although there wasn't much to shoot at I let her rip and heard the meat report of the bullet impacting him. He scrambled around a bit, and as soon as he stopped I shot again, and heard the 2nd hit. He scrambled around a bit more and since I figured the bullet wouldn't exit much at that range, and I wasn't about to lose him I shot again, and heard the bullet hit a 3rd time. He finally lay still and after a minute or so I hiked out after him, and found him dead. I hauled him about a 1/2 mile to a fencepost and skinned the guy, and he's awaiting processing in the freezer. What a great experience that was with one heckuvan' accurate rig. Gawd I love this rig, always in contention as it is for predator hunting with my specialty pistols--
