Post by sixshot on Jun 25, 2011 23:34:19 GMT -5
Because of all the rain we've had the ground squirrel hunting has been kind of slow, but me and old Callshot keep trying. Yesterday we ended up in Wyoming & still didn't see much to get excited about. Steve got a couple of shots & I never cleared leather. Did see some beautiful country.
Today was a little better, for the first time this year we got to take his truck & spit his seeds, although his can was almost empty.....true story, so I had to divvy up 4 bulging handfulls to get us warmed up & in shooting shape.
I had my 32 maggie squirrel eliminator along with its usual dose of 3 grs of WST & 100 gr cast slug, also I had my OM 357 shortie, my 44 Bisley flattop, my OM 7 1/2" flattop & my 10 1/2" SS Ferminator. This last gun is sweet, that long sight radius, superb trigger & great accuracy make it minute of ground squirrel out to quite a distance.
I'm shooting a 240 gr cast HP from a Miha mould, this slug is kind of soft & over 10 grs of Unique it really pops the tummies of these squirrels.
Quite an attractive gun but it is going to punish deer, elk & bears!
It rides around in my Barranti, Northwest Hunter Rig, great setup!
After I got my seed spitting straightened out I went 5 for six, all on the same rock pile, I might have got more, there was so much blood, hair & feathers....actually no feathers, that I couldn't find them all. My first shot with the 10 1/2" 44 looked like a double.
I got 2 with the 32 maggie, it hunts down squirrels like Hoover hunts huckleberries.
You guys will probably like these scenery shots, these are beautiful valleys & we are miles from nowhere!
A fist full of ground squirrels & the 44 Ferminator, Yowee! I think this gun would split a pretzel if my eyes were better.
The lovely Blackfoot Resevoir from about 1000 ft above it.
Lots of beautiful, wide open country with plenty of squirrels, rabbits, badgers, deer, elk & moose.
Just so you don't think I hogged all the shooting old Callshot (Canshoot) finally spit enough seeds that he started hitting, smacked this meadowlark at about 40 yds with his very own 32 maggie, you can see he pegged it right through the middle....the old boy can shoot if I make him mad enough.
I think the bib overalls has a tendency to scare game, I know they scare me when I see him coming, but it does cover up his leg a little better.
When he wasn't looking I managed to spit quite a few seeds around in his truck, his defroster will probably be plugged this winter!
Sadly I have no pictures of his last shot & it was a 100% doozy! Shooting free hand out the window of his truck he pinwheeled a rock chuck at a conservative 115 yds, one shot, no wiggle, no flopping around, just kerplunk!! With those dumb bibs he can't get through a fence, probably couldn't get through a gate if I opened it for him, I was wearing shorts so I wouldn't go get it either. I was wearing my trusty Crocs so I probably could have jumped the fence but I didn't. We could see its tail come straight up & then float back down like a leaf off a tree. What a shot! This shot was made with his fan club 44 Bisley flattop & a 220 gr Ferminator GC slug......what a shot!
Dick
Today was a little better, for the first time this year we got to take his truck & spit his seeds, although his can was almost empty.....true story, so I had to divvy up 4 bulging handfulls to get us warmed up & in shooting shape.
I had my 32 maggie squirrel eliminator along with its usual dose of 3 grs of WST & 100 gr cast slug, also I had my OM 357 shortie, my 44 Bisley flattop, my OM 7 1/2" flattop & my 10 1/2" SS Ferminator. This last gun is sweet, that long sight radius, superb trigger & great accuracy make it minute of ground squirrel out to quite a distance.
I'm shooting a 240 gr cast HP from a Miha mould, this slug is kind of soft & over 10 grs of Unique it really pops the tummies of these squirrels.
Quite an attractive gun but it is going to punish deer, elk & bears!
It rides around in my Barranti, Northwest Hunter Rig, great setup!
After I got my seed spitting straightened out I went 5 for six, all on the same rock pile, I might have got more, there was so much blood, hair & feathers....actually no feathers, that I couldn't find them all. My first shot with the 10 1/2" 44 looked like a double.
I got 2 with the 32 maggie, it hunts down squirrels like Hoover hunts huckleberries.
You guys will probably like these scenery shots, these are beautiful valleys & we are miles from nowhere!
A fist full of ground squirrels & the 44 Ferminator, Yowee! I think this gun would split a pretzel if my eyes were better.
The lovely Blackfoot Resevoir from about 1000 ft above it.
Lots of beautiful, wide open country with plenty of squirrels, rabbits, badgers, deer, elk & moose.
Just so you don't think I hogged all the shooting old Callshot (Canshoot) finally spit enough seeds that he started hitting, smacked this meadowlark at about 40 yds with his very own 32 maggie, you can see he pegged it right through the middle....the old boy can shoot if I make him mad enough.
I think the bib overalls has a tendency to scare game, I know they scare me when I see him coming, but it does cover up his leg a little better.
When he wasn't looking I managed to spit quite a few seeds around in his truck, his defroster will probably be plugged this winter!
Sadly I have no pictures of his last shot & it was a 100% doozy! Shooting free hand out the window of his truck he pinwheeled a rock chuck at a conservative 115 yds, one shot, no wiggle, no flopping around, just kerplunk!! With those dumb bibs he can't get through a fence, probably couldn't get through a gate if I opened it for him, I was wearing shorts so I wouldn't go get it either. I was wearing my trusty Crocs so I probably could have jumped the fence but I didn't. We could see its tail come straight up & then float back down like a leaf off a tree. What a shot! This shot was made with his fan club 44 Bisley flattop & a 220 gr Ferminator GC slug......what a shot!
Dick
After reading that 8 page post, I was sure they were! 
