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#1 ·
I am at my favorite hill top with two brush piles in the middle of the neighbors field with my long range pellet rifle sticking out of my mobile hunting shack.

Who else splatters punksitawny?
 
#11 ·
I hit one with a rn .22lr years ago and he looked at me like "That's all you got?". My roommate at the time had his grandpa's old .22 Hornet, that did a lot more than just piss them off, bit still nice and quiet. We shot a lot of 'chucks with that gun.

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#6 · (Edited)
Who else splatters punksitawny?
We hunt anything that farmers will let us . The wife thinks something wrong with me I just tell her its a hobby. I was riding with the neighbor last fall telling him how many woodchucks I shot. We crested a hill and two were in the beans and he said I may need another shooter. I need to work harder this year...
.17 fireball

.17 mach2



Another .17 fireball



Edit to add a prairie dog for good measure.
 
#9 ·
Major disapoitment.
I zeroed or checked zero on this rifle Friday after work on a paper target. In the last half hour I missed a crow at 80 yards and a chuck at about 125. I am number. I have perfect bench and every thing was perfect on the chuck. Dirt flew behind. It went right over. Fudge.
 
#12 ·
Were you shooting downhill , different wind or off a different bench ? A 308 at that distance shouldnt be bothered by wind much but a bipod on a springy bench top may make a difference? And of coarse there is always chuck fever and you rushed the shot :banghead:
 
#10 ·
I usually wait till they get far enough from their hole and sprint at them with my ruger mk3.
If you get within a few feet of them they dont know where to go and panic.
Easy pickins and gets the adrenaline flowing pretty good to.
Still need to have the girl friend video it sometime though
 
#13 ·
Wrong ammo.

I shot right over them, the crow I understand, the ground hog I did not.

I had changed from CBC M-80 ball, which zeroed the same as the Horniday 168 match.

I had the thing loaded with Horniday 150 super performance. They were a touch over 3-inches high at 180 yards, not sure at the shorter distance.

Changed back to the cheap shit, took the screen out of the pole barn window tonight.

After the rain blew over I killed three of the bastards in less than an hour. I have pictures and they will not load.
 
#15 ·
Just got this one from a counted 114 paces from our elevated deck, Standing in the soybeans. First shot was a little low at this distance. When she popped back out 5 minutes later I put the cross just above her head and had a head shot. Got her with a 1967 Marlin 39a Golden (.22LR) that was originally my Great Uncles. Celebrating with an Oddsides Citra pale ale.

Grass Hare Capybara
 
#16 ·
Just got this one from a counted 114 paces from our elevated deck, Standing in the soybeans. First shot was a little low at this distance. When she popped back out 5 minutes later I put the cross just above her head and had a head shot. Got her with a 1967 Marlin 39a Golden (.22LR) that was originally my Great Uncles. Celebrating with an Oddsides Citra pale ale.

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Good shooting and great gun !
 
#18 ·
Walked it to the back of the field against a small woods and threw it in. Those little federal hydra shock hollow points do pretty good.
 
#21 ·
I was out on the back deck this morning enjoying some coffee, when I spotted a wood chuck in the woods, ??? with the wind gusting and raining I was a little surprised, he duct in his hole for 15 minutes or so, I got him when he came out. A 95 yard shot through the woods.

I was pretty excited. Aint nothing better than snipping a chuck drinking coffee on your back porch.
 
#23 ·
Bump for spring and warm weather. I see one back against the treeline....just out of range.
 
#27 ·
#1 for 2014 for me. Same 'ole 1967 Marlin 39a golden .22lr

 
#28 ·
Great pic. Nice rifle as well. I am a little diapointed this spring I stair longingly across the fields at my house looking waiting wanting. And no chucks. I wish have killed them all last fall. I feel a little sad. I can not believe there not moving I n from the other areas adjacent. I need to find another place to go Hoggin.
 
#32 ·
Looks like a hoot. What gun/scope combos are you using and what seems to work better?
 
#33 ·
Top gun is a 22-250 stock Remington 700 . This is the tenth year out here for it. Scope is a Nitrex . Time for a new barrel . Bottom rifle is a Defiance action 243 with Brux barrel. It has a newer 3-18 Leupold.


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