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This country-boy can survive


Just returned from a trip at a friend�s ranch on the Eastern half of the state. This place is gorgeous with green grass meadows and craggy rim rocks loaded with deer and elk and a trout laden creek running right down the middle. The highlight of this ranch is the abundant fruit trees and berry bushes, which can only lead to one thing, fall bear. Apparently the bears on this place come September are thick, resembling a carnival game with heads popping up all over the hillside. We didn�t spend much time looking for critters this trip as the weather wasn�t cooperating, but we did manage to do a little hunting for Achmed.




If you haven�t read the book �Shooter� do yourself a favor and get it. My friend with the ranch has been listening to the audio CD�s and we found ourselves discussing the talents of the sniper picking off �targets� on the way to Baghdad. So, we decided to have a little shoot of our own and send Achmed to see 72 virgins. We looked for a piece of metal to hang but came up short but managed a tea-kettle and set it upon a corner post at 688 yards as well as some other targets at 300 and 500 yards. This next part I have to give credit to Stick for his teachings which I am forever grateful and his words were never truer; �Good equipment pays for itself�. After busting balloons on the 300 and 500 yard targets and getting windage figured out it was time to send �Achmed� the tea-kettle to see his 72 friends. Holding two minutes into the wind and drop dialed in for the distance I slowly squeezed off the shot, before getting the sight picture back from the recoil I said out load �ting� to my friend that was spotting. As we turned and looked at each other the look on his face was priceless! And I�m sure the grin I was wearing wasn�t too bad either. Achmed was dead with a shot between the blinkers.





I let my wife shoot next and she proceeded to give me a run for the money hitting a cast iron pot lid three out of three times at 500 yards. My friend at this point was obviously rattled and I could see the desire in his eyes so I lectured him on Stick�s teachings and settled him into the sand bags and finished with �good equipment is priceless� and let him bang out his own 500 yard hits. When we were done I could hear the whooshing sound coming from his wallet as he made a list of items to buy. Another satisfied customer.



All in all, a great weekend with family and friends.

Hey country-boy,

Convert here as well. Nothing like proven concepts that work
with the best of equipment. Leave the scope lines out, clickin is where it's at for sure! What's that rifle in your hands?

Great pics btw,

click, click, click, click, ...squeeze...affirmation!

Dude....looks like a good time!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, sounds like you boys were paying attention when class was in session. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> It is fun, no doubt about it.

Su-ze.....it's a .300 win mag, Pac-nor gain-twist barrel, 4.5-14 Leupold, 168 TSX at Whop-1 speed. The crow on the fence post hates it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Cool country, too.........

Double D- You up North? When is your ship going to be finished? Any plans to head back down this way?

Looks like a good time was had by all.

By the way, we have to plan a Bachelor party for lover boy!!! Are you going to make it out to Golden for the wedding?

Pooty-

Have to agree, we'll take care of Ol numb-nuts good and proper. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> When we're done with him it will be the last time he gets married, he'll never want the torture again.
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There's been a slight delay in the boat, but I'm hoping it'll be in Paradise by the 20th of June.....

No plans to come your direction until late Fall....

Was figuring to see you before then, for a little Alpine hunting......

Nothing like caring friends.......................(grin)

Need to get him here twice.

Alpine and Rut......................

Maybe he can make one extended trip......

.................oh, sheeet. I'm barely hanging on as is.

Hey Stick, was thinking about you this morning...........had the phone in hand waiting for your call.................it's not everyday one gets the opportunity to blush the Master.

Roger on the M1, it's the only way to fly. I'm digging the scope you got it can't be beat for a do it all. SU35 just got an M1 installed and it's sweeeeet..............in the mean time I'm keeping my Stoney Points just to piss off Larry.

hehe <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> We are on the same wavelength!!! I think ole numb nuts will look good walking down the isle with a set of pink furry handcuffs still hanging from his wrist and bruises behind his ears from Ample Annie boobie beating him............Just kidding, we wouldn't do that to a dear friend would we???.............hell yes!!!!

Spike nice little adventure. I had a similar weekend. I spent it with a pard (former student of mine) shooting p-dogs. It was a tad windy so it made the long'ish shots a little more tricky. My longest of the day was 430 yards, but pretty much everything 300 yards and under died. We had one real cool double where we popped two p-dogs off the same mound, at the same time. They were both in the air at once. Needless to say that warranted a high-5, as the prairie rats headed back towards Mother Earth.

Related to the weekend I was shooting some of my pard's new toys. The rifle I was using to make the double was a built on a Surgeon action. That's the first time I ever got my hands on one. Ummm, they qualify under good-chit, in my opinion. The US Optics scope riding on top weren't exactly picked up at the local Salvation Army store, either. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Now back to your story, and about those oodles of bears in the fall. You know you are my best'est friend in the whole wide world, right? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> One last comment: Are you sure your wife is old enough to be married to you? She looks younger and purtier every time you post a photo of her.

nice scenary.

Spike, Nice country out east..
Hope you get the op to hunt the bears or lions and elk there.
Stick knows his firearms for sure..but, no disrespect intended, I'm not sure whatinell a man needs to kill as hunter at 500 yards..other than Goodwill store teakettles to impress his friends.
As for some sort of insurgency in the eastern Oregon country from our enemies in the mid east..?
About as probable as having both legs busted by a pallet operator at the garden shop at your local Lowes.
Read all you want but that ain't very probable and any insurgent who'd come across such an open area needs a few hunnert with him and will get more than a dedicated 'sniper's' efforts.

You also didn't need to make in a religious-ethnic afternoon support the recent wars to have us appreciate your firearms or marksmanship.

IF you really want to get into prime country..quit your job and get the real training and enlist.

Most of the mil sniping in the past 50 years has been done at 300 yards or less...with weapons and calibers and optics that Big Stick and the gunwriters think are obsolete and done by men who take orders ...jim