It was some tough hunting today as this short video will show. It was the only video we shot today because the wind constantly vibrated the camera. 10-15mph winds with 25mph gusts.
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Diane was still able to hook up with her springtime nemesis. She missed a big hog with a lot of white on it's neck & belly. This one fit the bill as the one she missed. Rd #2 was in Di's favor. 39gr BK at 3900fps & the shot was maybe 100yds. Too short to use the RF on. When I poked it's head it slid further down into the hole where I couldn't reach it.
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As we left that field & headed around the bend back to the main farm fields we seen this little guy dive into the hole. We drove past & pulled into the field & walked back to it. He poked his head back up at about 25yds,, again too close for the RF to come out,, & I put a 34gr Winchester HP in the side of his noggin from the Marlin 22WMR. Tiny little entrance wound with very little blood & a very GOOD groundhog was reborn.
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Same hog "over easy" the way the buzzards like em. :biggrin:
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I saw that wind blow through here earlier today. Nice hogs and they will make some great "ground" hog sandwiches.
Jerry
That was a fun time I bet. Good spraying weather by the sounds of it too :biggrin:. Don't they have white very often :shrug:.
Did you hunt and film while you were out getting the mail today....or? :alscalls:
Tell Diane we'll excuse her miss on the elusive "white neck". :laf: -It's just no fun trying to dope the wind when the clovers whipping around the back pastures. -But we still have to go out! I do like that "red welcome mat" rolled out in the chucks burrow. :wink:
That little one would been good eating Jerry. Don't usually find them that small this time of year. Ddin't seem like he had much fat at all. I may have done him a favor this winter.
Barry-- I don't know anything about what you do but it would seem a calm day would be better for spraying. :shrug: We do enjoy popping them critters too. I've been doing it for almost 40yrs now & it never gets old. :nono: There's normally very little white on them. This one had a nice white belly & chest clear up to his lower jaws & up almost to it's eyes & ears. Woulda been a nice one to tan maybe. We seen the big chunks fly but couldn't find them either. It mighta been wrecked beyond sewing. :laf:
I drove to the mailbox & reached out the window to get the mail Jim. Then backed up to the back door & came in the house. :laf: :laf: Diane wouldn't go with me for that ride. :confused: Way too windy for the videoing too. The camera just vibrated on the tripod. :whew:
Diane just laughed & said Thanks Dave. :laf: Actually her miss was a little over 100yds & it was off the shooting sticks with the FireBall. The little CZ American 221 doesn't recoil quite right thru those sticks & we don't normally shoot it from them but had no choice in the spring. This time a well placed round bale did the trick. And yes we do have to get out regardless. :yoyo: I loved the "red welcome mat". :alscalls:
Glen most people believe as you do about spraying and wind :wink:. I like wind for spraying cause I know where my droplets are going. I've sprayed in 47mph winds and never had a problem but I did witness the biggest wreck in our area on a calm day. A fellow was air applying glyphosate on 300 acres and conditions were right for inversion. That stuff lifted up and came down damaging 6 quarters of crop. Needless to say but the applicator is out of business :sad:.
I see you brought out your big bores for that windy weather. :laf:
Thanks for the story & pix! :biggrin:
Well that does make sense Barry. Once I thought about it from your perspective & not an uneducated guess. :laf:
I guess air applying would be a method that uses no liquid carrier. :shrug:
Sure had to VV!! Had I known Diane's shot would be that close we coulda saved some powder & took the FireBall along. But what fun would that have been right?? :laf: :laf: And I'm still messing around with ol Maggie & her diet so I decided not to use the mighty 17 HaMeR. Altho it was in the truck with us. :eyebrow:
Quote from: HaMeR on September 06, 2010, 09:28:32 AM
I guess air applying would be a method that uses no liquid carrier. :shrug:
Aerial applied as in by plane. They seem to have more wrecks than me. Had one company wanted to hire me to do the headlands of fields they were spraying. :nono:
Quote from: HaMeR on September 06, 2010, 09:28:32 AM
I decided not to use the mighty 17 HaMeR. Altho it was in the truck with us. :eyebrow:
Bet that took a lot of restraint! :eyebrownod:
I see the connection now Barry. Takes me a few minutes sometimes. :laf: :laf:
Yes it did VV!! :whew: But it came out today when precision shot placement was required. :yoyo: :yoyo:
But that's another thread. :eyebrow: