Post by sixshot on Jun 9, 2009 20:47:05 GMT -5
Although I had never met Ken O'Neill in person until 10 days ago we have "known" each other for quite a while. Ken wanted to shoot some rockchucks using handguns of course & made the trip out west to see what I get so worked up about when I'm hunting them.
Ken is a very accomplished shooter & hunter & the rock chucks paid a heavy price for peeking over the tops of the lava rocks, if he could see them, he could hit them!
The first field we pulled into on the 4 wheeler was a sight to behold, it was crawling with chucks, big ones, little ones, fat ones & slow ones, didn't matter Ken hammered everything in sight until I thought his barrel was going to fall off. He made a run of 15 straight in a very short time before he finally missed one. It was one of the lucky ones that was laying on its belly munching some alfalfa, we couldn't get a reading with the range finder but it was somewhere around 400+. He did nail one at 340 yds with his very nice XP100 223. He finished the morning hunt with 23 chucks in about 2 hrs then we broke for lunch. In the afternoon we got rained out so we quit for the day & went out for a rematch the next morning, it was more of the same, he was pounding the bejeebers out of them at all distances & got 3 with his Freedom Arms 50 AE using 350 gr XTP's, not a single one charged! ;D
Later that day we made the one hour drive to Freedom, Wyoming for a quick fix of one of his model 83's, did a little tour of the plant & then back across the border into Idaho.
A few days later Ken & I had the opportunity to shoot the new Freedom Arms 224-32 FA, this is the 327 case necked to 22 caliber & it is a doozey! Ken is usually quite reserved but this little revolver was making him sweat. Scoped & with a 10" barrel it was shooting little bitty groups even in a bad, bad wind, I can see one of these in the O'Neill stable in the future.
This is Ken with a small portion of the first days hunt.
This is Ken at the "bench" getting ready to whack another barley muncher.
Another photo of some of Ken's chucks on the first day.
We had a great time & hopefully it will happen again in the future.
Dick
Ken is a very accomplished shooter & hunter & the rock chucks paid a heavy price for peeking over the tops of the lava rocks, if he could see them, he could hit them!
The first field we pulled into on the 4 wheeler was a sight to behold, it was crawling with chucks, big ones, little ones, fat ones & slow ones, didn't matter Ken hammered everything in sight until I thought his barrel was going to fall off. He made a run of 15 straight in a very short time before he finally missed one. It was one of the lucky ones that was laying on its belly munching some alfalfa, we couldn't get a reading with the range finder but it was somewhere around 400+. He did nail one at 340 yds with his very nice XP100 223. He finished the morning hunt with 23 chucks in about 2 hrs then we broke for lunch. In the afternoon we got rained out so we quit for the day & went out for a rematch the next morning, it was more of the same, he was pounding the bejeebers out of them at all distances & got 3 with his Freedom Arms 50 AE using 350 gr XTP's, not a single one charged! ;D
Later that day we made the one hour drive to Freedom, Wyoming for a quick fix of one of his model 83's, did a little tour of the plant & then back across the border into Idaho.
A few days later Ken & I had the opportunity to shoot the new Freedom Arms 224-32 FA, this is the 327 case necked to 22 caliber & it is a doozey! Ken is usually quite reserved but this little revolver was making him sweat. Scoped & with a 10" barrel it was shooting little bitty groups even in a bad, bad wind, I can see one of these in the O'Neill stable in the future.
This is Ken with a small portion of the first days hunt.
This is Ken at the "bench" getting ready to whack another barley muncher.
Another photo of some of Ken's chucks on the first day.
We had a great time & hopefully it will happen again in the future.
Dick
