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Offline LONGTOM

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A Good Day Groundhog Hunting!
« on: May 29, 2009, 06:49:42 PM »
My buddy & I was at it again today.
The wind was blowing pretty hard but we still had a good day ground hog hunting.
We shot 15 times total and killed 13.
We were unable to recover 2 of them.
One I shot with a handgun and one of his that rolled back in the den.
My miss was when we tried for a double on two young ones at about 35 yds and I wasn't holding quite low enough and over shot by a couple of inches.
I have only shot this gun about 25 times and am not quite use to where to hold with this scope.
His miss was on another young one at about 120 yds, wind drift to the right.
He was using a TC Pro Hunter in 223 and I had my new Handi Ultra in 204.
As you can see in the pic that some were small but we still made some head shots.
I did take one with a Rem 870 using 3" #4 buck.
The longest shot was by me at a little over 200 yds (top left in the pic-head shot) and the closest shot was also by me with my 45 colt Vaquaro at 2' (third from right in the bottom row).
That's right 2', I almost stepped on it while I was trying to get a shot on one with the 870.
I got that one to!
Bottom left.
Man does a 3" #4 buck tear one up!
Yeah I know, gut shot.  :P
Check out the middle bottom.
204 32gr Vmax at about 140yds.
Man I love this cartridge.





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Re: A Good Day Groundhog Hunting!
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2009, 07:02:10 PM »
Looks like fun. Kinda wish we had something around here like that to shoot.
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Re: A Good Day Groundhog Hunting!
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2009, 02:10:08 AM »
Disgusting...... absolutely disgusting  ::)

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That I don't have anything like that around here to shoot  ;D
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Re: A Good Day Groundhog Hunting!
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2009, 12:42:32 PM »
 :D Longtom, looks like a great day.  :D I sure miss shooting chucks on the east coast. We have rockchucks, but mostly they do little damage, so I hate killing them for no reason, but I shoot a few each year so they don't forget they are not on welfare. ;D My old chuck hunting grounds are not as good as they used to be however. The last time I was there, last year, many of the farms are not being farmed and the weeds are taking over, so chucks are absent. Hate to see it, but my trips to that part of the world will become less and less as family and friends are no longer there. Good shooting. ;) :-*
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