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I have shot more, but not more without a miss. I bought a new Cooper rifle in 17 CCM and it is a perfect gopher gun. I took it, a 17 Remington, a 223 and a 17 HMR shooting gophers. I started with the 17 CCM and before I knew it I had shot 12 in a row without a miss. I was wondering how long I could keep up the streak. I kept shooting and I even got 3 doubles and a triple while I was running my streak. Then, wouldn't you know it, before I could shoot a complete box of 50 without a miss, I missed a chip shot. 48 rounds without a miss, 49 was a gimme and I missed it. 49/50 on gophers isn't bad. A total of 54 with 50 shots fired certainly isn't a bad showing for 1 box of cartridges. I ended up with a total 200 confirmed kills on the clicker... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/NZAREi8.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/gL59JNq.jpg)
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A bloodbath...congrats...I love shooting those Gophers !
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Kool........ must'a been gopher-dog day today.... Ran about 190 rds out this morning myself I call a 'good dog patch' 60-65 rds per hour... Single shot Savage.......20 Vartarg today I dare ya to laugh at my $20 umbrella....... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/GWCNlkO.jpg)
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Due to the increased price of ammo, don't expect a warning shot...
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Nice to see the “ShamWow” getting a workout.
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Sweet umbrella, Tik. 😂
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog
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Nice to see the “ShamWow” getting a workout.
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Sweet umbrella, Tik. 😂 had that fugger steamin'
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Nice to see the “ShamWow” getting a workout.
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Sweet umbrella, Tik. 😂 32 gr Noslers out to 550+
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Shrapnel: You are having entirely to much fun!
Good for you though.
I have run into the fifties without a miss several times - on Prairie Dogs!
But Ground Squirrels are much smaller targets and are much more prone to darting away just as the "trigger breaks"!
I am sure that is what happened on your 48th shot?
It is VERY hard to even get into the 30's straight on Ground Squirrels - even with centerfire Rifles.
Good for you on the doubles and the triple - those are smile making feats as well.
Keep up the good work and great photos.
Hold into the wind
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Good Shooting, sounds like fun. I have not been out to shoot prairie dogs for awhile now.
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Sounds like a you had a blast shooting that nice rig.
Figures don't lie, But Liars figure
Assumption is the mother of mistakes
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Methinks you had a gopher problem...  The operative word there is "had"... 
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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You are still over 100% Good shootin.
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Need one of those clickers!
Awesome rifle and cartridge btw!
Screw you! I'm voting for Trump again!
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That miss on number 49 is like the fifth shot of a pinkie nail size group that decides it doesn’t want to be near its buddies.
Looks like fun! No colony critters around here and I’m sure the farmers are glad of it but crows are about the only chance to get more than one, maybe two shots.
I got a triple on crows one time. They were lined up on a limb and I thought I was shooting at one…a handload with the 80 grain Power Lokt out of my 243 showed me its expansion qualities.
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Had the H&R Ultra in 17 Remington out. I did that in remembrance of the old glory days of gophers when you would still show up once in awhile…
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Congrats on the new record! Looks like a Saturday night in Schitcago........
Paul
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Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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Shot prairie dogs in '01, as I tagged my pronghorn the first day. Had a blast. Groundhogs aren't as cooperative, at least for me. Been to numerous farms that are "polluted" with chucks, but never when I'm there. Glad some people are burnin' powder.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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I would be lying if I said that didn't get a good LOL. Just Sayin.
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