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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

"I have lusted."

Jimmy



Nice pics, Poobah.

FYI...some pups were up today...never seen them this early.

The ones I saw are down now......

Wow.
Early Spring in Montucky also.
Them vermin look purty big....
and I see trees.....



Happy Retirement.

Heres the backdrop...




Kinda towards Lennep Mt.

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..

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.

Both Deuces are sweet but there is one I like mo better. You had a much better day than I had.

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...

Impressive.....

Good job Ingwe, looks like a blast! Good to see the pair of deuces getting some action.

Is the scope on the BDL the Cabelas?

Nice. Groundhog tally here is up to 7. Slow start this year.

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....

I like that combo too!

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?

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..

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!

Not much bullet destruction there....tell the truth you uglied that one to death !

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.

Whaddaya mean uglied him? I got that stock from you! Course...we were both drunk at the time....

Hunt 101 has been alot more user friendly for me...

I quit screwing with PhotoFudket...