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If I said retirement sucked! Just got back from the killing fields, central Montana version. It was a day for the .222s....... Had to go "Old School" on them! Switched to the LVSF in a deuce and got a couple pics of it on the killing fields.... It was a pretty good day, with 400 rounds expended. Likewise pretty good shot-to-kill ratio
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Nice pics, Poobah.
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FYI...some pups were up today...never seen them this early. The ones I saw are down now......
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Wow. Early Spring in Montucky also. Them vermin look purty big.... and I see trees.....
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Heres the backdrop... Kinda towards Lennep Mt.
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ingwe, I was wondering, what is a pretty good shot to kill ratio??? How far do you usually shoot at gophers??
I should use my range finder more.. I just shoot off the hood of my old 85 Toyota.. Our numbers of gophers are still way down..But when I was shooting today, I would say I only averaged 60-65 percent.. When we were in Montana, I had 50 .223's loaded with 55 grain Sierra HPBT's.. My average there with those bullets was maybe 85 percent.. When I switched to 50 gr. Sierra BK, my average dropped back down.. I doubt 70 percent.. I shot maybe 30 with my Swift and .22-250 AI just because I had them.. I average with them was much higher than the .223 with 50 gr.. I am sure wind, etc. make a day to day difference..
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Your experience pretty much mirrors mine. A so/so day ( wind, wrong load, loose nut on the trigger...) we figure 65%...a good day is 85%....but we have had strings of 50-100 shots that were 95% plus...but overall a good average is 85%....a real good one is 90% Truth be known most shots at gophers are 150- Yds or less.We routinely shoot them out to 250 or so...unless I have the .204...it will score a number of 300 yards kills in a day.
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Both Deuces are sweet but there is one I like mo better. You had a much better day than I had.
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Since you killed the first and second ever gophers with that LVSF it has killed a few more with 1500 + rounds down the tube thats easily 1K gophers. I replaced the original scope with a Leupy VX-II 3x9 and starting loading 50 grainers as the 1 in 14 twist likes them slightly better. It is easily my favorite gopher getter...
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Impressive..... Good job Ingwe, looks like a blast! Good to see the pair of deuces getting some action.
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Is the scope on the BDL the Cabelas?
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Nice. Groundhog tally here is up to 7. Slow start this year.
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Is the scope on the BDL the Cabelas? Yep...it was on the LVSF deuce when you broke it in. Bought it from JB and kinda like it! Having a little trouble with PB and this pic: test....
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At one time I had 4 222's..down to 2 now. 52 gr Speer flying ashtrays smack the snot out of sod rats. How come half your pics don't show up Tom?
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76, Speaking of 52 gr. Speer hollow points.. I shot thousands of them over the years and still have about 4000 left.. One batch was horrible for copper coating the barrel on 2 different rifles.. I eventually sent some samples back to Speer.. They said the problem with the bullet was the jacket was not made correctly.. No problem, and they sent me a new 1000 pack.. Tried 50 of them in my .223 yesterday, same problem, but not as severe.. Stuck the rest on the shelf.. Too bad, it was a cheap, accurate, deadly bullet..
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Problems with PB.... But on the bullet topic I loved those Speer 52s but recently came into a batch of Hornady Amax 52s labeled specifically for 1 in 14 twists, and the worked REALLY good!
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Is the scope on the BDL the Cabelas? Yep...it was on the LVSF deuce when you broke it in. Bought it from JB and kinda like it! Having a little trouble with PB and this pic: test.... Not much bullet destruction there....tell the truth you uglied that one to death !
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I just grazed him on that side away from the camera. Its what the old westerns would call " a flesh wound" He'll be OK in a couple days.
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Is the scope on the BDL the Cabelas? Yep...it was on the LVSF deuce when you broke it in. Bought it from JB and kinda like it! Having a little trouble with PB and this pic: test.... Not much bullet destruction there....tell the truth you uglied that one to death ! Whaddaya mean uglied him? I got that stock from you! Course...we were both drunk at the time....
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