This tip can actually apply to any shooting. Even bench rest shooting :wink:
Tip#
When shooting annoying squirrels off your bird feeder cause they make the bird seed disappear faster then cupcakes at a pot party, take notice to everything within your scoped view.
Just because the cross hairs are where you want them doesnt mean it's going to be a clean shot, especially if you can see a smidge of the window sill in the lower portion of your scope lens.
:hahaha:(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RiverBoy/misc/squirrel-003.jpg)
It's not the end of the world though...but it is close :laf:
With some quick corrections you can still get this shot. By turning the rifle sideways, you now turn your elevation problem into a windage solution. Making the barely open window gap, a wider window of opportunity :wink:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RiverBoy/misc/squirrel-001.jpg)
NEXT WEEK!!
Turning off the neighbors porch light from the comfort of your own deck, and making it appear as though it came from across the street :wink:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RiverBoy/misc/porchlight.jpg)
Good tip but a bit late for my friend who found out that the same thing can happen when sighting through a car window. The door is there even if you cant see it in the scope.
Jim,
I will be waiting the outcome of your trial BEFORE I start shooting the neighbor's lights.
If my memory is correct I suggested using your 22-250 to take care of that squirrel a couple of years ago.
Jerry
Yeah Jerry, the Gamo proved itself useless, which will most likely be hitting the FnF classifieds.
But the 22-250 might be, I dunno a bit of over kill, what'ya think?
Geez, if I had been using the 22-250 here I'd be residing the front of the house. :doh2: :alscalls:
Deck killer!!! :laugh2: :laugh2:
Glad you got that little bugger. Another 1/2 dozen of em & you gots yerself a stew!! :yoyo:
Wow I ain't done that for forty years :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:. Did you catch [L] from anyone cause I sure did :pout:. I been thinking there was only a few of us incompetent fellows on here but I like seeing I'm not totally alone in the wilderness :whew:.
Sooooo....... Did ya kill the squirrel ? Later I mean....... :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls: :alscalls:
I mean he looks dead...... sorta...... Kinda..... :laf: :laf:
Quote from: pitw on January 02, 2011, 09:55:14 PMI been thinking there was only a few of us incompetent fellows.
You can add me to the list. .22 right through the 1/4 round of a garage window at a groundhog about 10 yrs ago. :doh2:
Quote from: Dave on January 03, 2011, 07:34:08 AM
Quote from: pitw on January 02, 2011, 09:55:14 PMI been thinking there was only a few of us incompetent fellows.
You can add me to the list. .22 right through the 1/4 round of a garage window at a groundhog about 10 yrs ago. :doh2:
:doh2: :alscalls:
Quote from: pitw on January 02, 2011, 09:55:14 PM
Did you catch [L] from anyone cause I sure did :pout:.
Who was going to give him {L}? :shrug:
The cat? :wo:
:laf:
I got powder burn on the curtains once. :iroll:
Line of site and line of flight sometimes it take a good example to make you realise they are different. At least it was not across the hood of your beloved Ford Truck. :hahaha: :hahaha: cc
A buddy of mine was shooting rats in the barn.That came to a screaching halt when he pt a 22 right through his foot
Quote from: Bills Custom Calls on January 03, 2011, 06:05:06 PM
A buddy of mine was shooting rats in the barn.That came to a screaching halt when he pt a 22 right through his foot
Wow were his sights off :eyebrownod:.
I don't know but he will tell ya it was the stupidest thing he has ever done
He was in his early 20's then and now he is in his mid 70's and he still remembers it like yesterday
Whooo boy is my mind gonna be full :pout: :doh2:.
Yeah Barry, whos gonna give me [L]? :nono:
Shooting game from upstairs windows is one of the benefits of being a bachelor :wink:
First I have heard of someone doing that. :laf:
Yeah stuff like this dont happen south of the Mason Dixon line, do it :innocentwhistle: :laf:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 03, 2011, 07:21:30 PM
Shooting game from upstairs windows is one of the benefits of being a bachelor :wink:
But the draw backs are all the things you have to pull yourself :sad:, like the vacuum cleaner, blinds etc. :whew:
Quote from: FinsnFur on January 03, 2011, 07:26:33 PM
Yeah stuff like this dont happen south of the Mason Dixon line, do it :innocentwhistle: :laf:
It do, I just aint managed to wound the house doing it :alscalls: Jimmie
Quote from: pitw on January 03, 2011, 07:39:33 PM
But the draw backs are all the things you have to pull yourself :sad:, like the vacuum cleaner, blinds etc. :whew:
:alscalls: :alscalls:
Naa...I just go to church and find a nice one for a weekend :biggrin:
:alscalls: DID I DO THAT :doh2:
QuoteYeah stuff like this dont happen south of the Mason Dixon line, do it
Nope we have the windows WIDE OPEN here.. :innocentwhistle:
AHhhh! :alscalls: I shoulda seen that coming a mile away. (inside joke)