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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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Campfire Kahuna
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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)
T R U M P W O N !
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Due to the increased price of ammo, don't expect a warning shot...
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Campfire Kahuna
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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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Campfire Kahuna
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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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Campfire Kahuna
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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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Campfire Kahuna
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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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Campfire Guide
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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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Campfire Oracle
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Methinks you had a gopher problem...  The operative word there is "had"... 
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Pro-Constitution.
Molon Labe..
LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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You are still over 100% Good shootin.
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Campfire Oracle
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Stick Deflave anywhere you want in the social media archipelago,....and he'll fug it up. That's what he's here to do.
He's got issues.
His issues are becoming yours,...Rick bin.
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Need one of those clickers!
Awesome rifle and cartridge btw!
Let go Brandon!
My dyslexia is getting whores.
Ecc 10:2
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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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Campfire Kahuna
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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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Campfire Oracle
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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.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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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.
Gun control...schemed by tyrants and supported by fools.
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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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