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Yesterday I shot at two with my 17 HM2, the breeze was up pretty good and I missed the first (I think) got the second and could tell it was a hit but he made it to his hole. Judging by the piece of liver on the top of the rock he is toast, but I didn't count him because I couldn't verify a body.

After those "misses" I shot three shots at a target I have out at the 70 yards those rocks I was shooting at were and could see the windage compensation I needed, it was a couple of inches.

Today... one sitting quite a bit further (110 according to rangefinder) I held two inches high and five or six over, made the sweetest center shoulder shot with him sitting sideways you could ever ask for. Just a couple of kicks and twitches and he was down for the count.

I took pictures of the distance and one of him I'll post when I figure out the picture thing.

Silly to get jazzed about that, but hey.

I would have done it with the 243 but I went to the range first thing in the morning and shot the one box of 100's and two boxes of 55's I had. The 100's don't shoot worth a damn, but the 55's are nice.

Hey I love you too jackass, I don't care what the rest say about you.

There you go again Whizzer...calling people names and belittling them.

Nothing wrong with getting jazzed about a ground squirrel! We red mister types understand.

That was said in a good natured way with a smile on my face.

So I go out this morning and put the rifle on the bench and start looking in the usual rock spots and there's nothing. So I watch for awhile and I'm using binocs to look for little heads and I see a great big Maine Coon style cat out there hunting my ground squirrels.

So I just watched him for awhile to see if he was actually hunting the squirrels or the other little rodent things that there seems to be thousands of.