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...
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 VarmintGuy
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.
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.
Eileen and I have been shooting gophers on a local ranch since early March. You might even remember the rancher, who was in my class at Bozeman Senior High, when you were a year behind us. (Won't reveal his name here....)
Have killed quite a few, and are going out again tomorrow morning. So far have been keeping track by using a pen on paper, but yesterday Eileen bought me an Father's Day Present (even thought I am only a "father" to our two dogs), a clicker somewhat like yours--and the ones used by bird-guides in Argentina when dove shooting. Have noticed over the decades that clickers get going pretty rapidly, whether when shooting gophers or doves. Am NOT saying yours is one of those rapid-clickers, but have noticed how quickly yours works--even when you're shooting a LOT, and spending more time on the trigger....
Eileen and I have been shooting gophers on a local ranch since early March. You might even remember the rancher, who was in my class at Bozeman Senior High, when you were a year behind us. (Won't reveal his name here....)
Have killed quite a few, and are going out again tomorrow morning. So far have been keeping track by using a pen on paper, but yesterday Eileen bought me an Father's Day Present (even thought I am only a "father" to our two dogs), a clicker somewhat like yours--and the ones used by bird-guides in Argentina when dove shooting. Have noticed over the decades that clickers get going pretty rapidly, whether when shooting gophers or doves. Am NOT saying yours is one of those rapid-clickers, but have noticed how quickly yours works--even when you're shooting a LOT, and spending more time on the trigger....
I have shot more, but not more without a miss. I bought a new Coop[er 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...
Looks like 1 more wants to get shot and is sticking its head out of the hole in the bottom left. is that one already shot and just tried to climb back in the hole?
I have shot more, but not more without a miss. I bought a new Coop[er 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...
Looks like 1 more wants to get shot and is sticking its head out of the hole in the bottom left. is that one already shot and just tried to climb back in the hole?
I doubt he’s thinking much at all. One of the triplets that I got with the one shot…
I have shot more, but not more without a miss. I bought a new Coop[er 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...
Looks like 1 more wants to get shot and is sticking its head out of the hole in the bottom left. is that one already shot and just tried to climb back in the hole?
I doubt he’s thinking much at all. One of the triplets that I got with the one shot…
Needing to count dead things is more than a bit creepy.
I have been around and shot large volumes of PD and gophers and can say anyone using a counter for the day is creepy.
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
LOL.
I now own your thread.
You also own the only mobile space relay station that NASA uses to send back pictures of the far side of the galaxy to your forehead with that empty chamber behind it to give the least amount of distortion to the high frequency signals sent from outer space.
Everyone on the Campfire now shares the same disappointment your mother did when she first saw you in the incubator at the animal shelter. She only brought you home because she thought she was getting a new Teflon coated frying pan…
You also own the only mobile space relay station that NASA uses to send back pictures of the far side of the galaxy to your forehead with that empty chamber behind it to give the least amount of distortion to the high frequency signals sent from outer space.
Everyone on the Campfire now shares the same disappointment your mother did when she first saw you in the incubator at the animal shelter. She only brought you home because she thought she was getting a new Teflon coated frying pan…
Wow.
I have hats. But I own your thread cause I got bored, which is super funny, Bicht.
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
You obviously don't shoot as much as we do. single shots are for the range, when gophers and Prairie Dogs are out, you need several rifles and a clicker.
yeah what ever. Sounds like you need to use AR's. Like prairie dogs aren't think in other parts of the country. Laughin'
Understood, no mudslinging just an observation. When we’re shooting and in the fields after gophers or prairie dogs we have so many different guns and they all usually have magazines with them so one individual round back-and-forth in a cartridge container usually isn’t the easiest thing to accommodate.
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
You obviously don't shoot as much as we do. single shots are for the range, when gophers and Prairie Dogs are out, you need several rifles and a clicker.
The rifles/optiks pictured are prolly edging up on the value of the sled that’s carrying them.
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
LOL.
I now own your thread.
You also own the only mobile space relay station that NASA uses to send back pictures of the far side of the galaxy to your forehead with that empty chamber behind it to give the least amount of distortion to the high frequency signals sent from outer space.
Everyone on the Campfire now shares the same disappointment your mother did when she first saw you in the incubator at the animal shelter. She only brought you home because she thought she was getting a new Teflon coated frying pan…
There’s a few things that get me actually laughing here on the ‘fire…. This was one of them.
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
Speaking of creepy, there can’t be anything more creepy than a horse’s ass with a Desoto hood for a forehead. You really should consider wearing a paper bag over that head if yours…
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
You obviously don't shoot as much as we do. single shots are for the range, when gophers and Prairie Dogs are out, you need several rifles and a clicker.
Shrapnel: I have and have used thumb-operated clickers (counters) on dozens of occasions over the last 5 1/2 decades of my extensive Colony Varminting. This includes Varmint Safaris for Rock Chucks, Prairie Dogs and the aforementioned Ground Squirrels. On many of those occasions I (we) have been asked by the land owners (ranchers/farmers/orchardists) to provide them with the numbers of kills that we made on their lands. I am more than happy to give them an accurate count (especially impressive counts!) to help prevent them from initiating "poisoning" programs! In fact I often bring along a spare clicker counter in case someone in our party wants to keep track of their own hits/misses. On one memorable trip back in 1971, to a western state, on Rock Chuck Safari, we used a thumb counter to keep track our kills - "it" turned over on the sixth day of our seven day Hunt! Thats right it passed over 999 to begin at 1,000 that sixth day - aaahhh.... those were the good old days of Rock Chuckin. The dairy farmers in that area were very pleased with our efforts (totals). I see nothing wrong, what so ever, with using a click counter on Varmint Safaris. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
You obviously don't shoot as much as we do. single shots are for the range, when gophers and Prairie Dogs are out, you need several rifles and a clicker.
The rifles/optiks pictured are prolly edging up on the value of the sled that’s carrying them.
I was thinking of using that pic in our Hunter's Ed class to show people how to properly transport firearms to the hunting grounds.
ya know a guy doesn't need a clicker to keep track of hits and misses, simply flip primer up when you put the brass back in your box. Hits = brass neck up, misses =primer up. Makes it easy to count. And congrats on the nice string of kills.
You obviously don't shoot as much as we do. single shots are for the range, when gophers and Prairie Dogs are out, you need several rifles and a clicker.
one shot/one kill.....
always another dog waiting for a fresh round in the chamber
Shrapnel: I have and have used thumb-operated clickers (counters) on dozens of occasions over the last 5 1/2 decades of my extensive Colony Varminting. This includes Varmint Safaris for Rock Chucks, Prairie Dogs and the aforementioned Ground Squirrels. On many of those occasions I (we) have been asked by the land owners (ranchers/farmers/orchardists) to provide them with the numbers of kills that we made on their lands. I am more than happy to give them an accurate count (especially impressive counts!) to help prevent them from initiating "poisoning" programs! In fact I often bring along a spare clicker counter in case someone in our party wants to keep track of their own hits/misses. On one memorable trip back in 1971, to a western state, on Rock Chuck Safari, we used a thumb counter to keep track our kills - "it" turned over on the sixth day of our seven day Hunt! Thats right it passed over 999 to begin at 1,000 that sixth day - aaahhh.... those were the good old days of Rock Chuckin. The dairy farmers in that area were very pleased with our efforts (totals). I see nothing wrong, what so ever, with using a click counter on Varmint Safaris. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
That's basically the same reason Eileen and I use a clicker when shooting gophers on the land of our rancher friends. (One goes all the way back to when we attended high school together.) We don't want him to poison them--and obviously neither does he, since it's far cheaper to have a few local friends thin them out.
Might also mention that there's not always time to return fired cases primer up-or-down when the shooting's hot. Plus, the majority of gophers we shoot are taken with rimfires. I'm one of those who stocked up considerably on .17 HMR ammo when it was less than $10 for a box of 50....
That looks like it would be fun. I imagine a side benefit of the clicker would be to keep the ranch owner informed of how much is being taken off the property.
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