Caught The 5 Wire

[STS]

I circled around the Bridger Mountains this morning to clean up a bunch of Gophers on a friends ranch. The snows gone off the hay fields and the gophers are out in big numbers. When you catch one near a fence, you can launch them high enough to put them on a wire. Most of the time they don’t make it past the second or third wire, but this one made it all the way to the 5th wire. About 90 yards with a little 20 caliber wildcat shooting 32 grain V-maxes at 4100. Got rained and snowed out at about 1 o’clock but still managed to whack about 200 of them.

 

[Rick in Oregon]

Now that is one of the very best "wire-hangers" I've seen in a while. Good launch, great graphic effect, good job!

 

[Chiquita]

That must've hurt really bad. I think he will have a head ache for the rest of his life.

 

[5spd]

Would that be a thorn in its side so to speak

 

[65swede]

Clotheslined that SOB you did!

 

[17VLD]

My friend lives up that way and says if the yuppies knew what he does with his 20 Dasher to rockchucks on their ski mountain they would have a heart attack.
Thanks for sharing an awesome picture

 

[Calgary Bill]

Great pic!
A number of years ago I shot a few gophers from the top of fence posts. They are called squirrels for a reason---they can climb really well when they want to, which isn't very often.

 

[Toddmack]

Great shooting, but I'm curious about the fence. I saw one wood post and then an endless line of T posts. Don't think I've ever seen a wood fence post like that because it wasn't hedge or creosote. I'm not very smart or very enlightened, just curious.

 

[STS]

Great shooting, but I'm curious about the fence. I saw one wood post and then an endless line of T posts. Don't think I've ever seen a wood fence post like that because it wasn't hedge or creosote. I'm not very smart or very enlightened, just curious.

There's only 1 wood post in that whole section. They put it there so I would have a place to set my rifle. It's really hard to balance a rifle on top of a T post.

 

[markT]

Those staples look like they could be driven in a tad. Or maybe that's the way they do it for contraction and expansion.

 

[46and2]

I circled around the Bridger Mountains this morning to clean up a bunch of Gophers on a friends ranch. The snows gone off the hay fields and the gophers are out in big numbers. When you catch one near a fence, you can launch them high enough to put them on a wire. Most of the time they don’t make it past the second or third wire, but this one made it all the way to the 5th wire. About 90 yards with a little 20 caliber wildcat shooting 32 grain V-maxes at 4100. Got rained and snowed out at about 1 o’clock but still managed to whack about 200 of them.

Is he going to be ok?

 

[D Coots]

On one of our first trips to the Rez in SD my buddy launched a dog way high with his 7mm. We kinda were over powered in those days.

 

[D Coots]

Is he going to be ok?

He won't have guts enough to do that again....

 

[MTlager]

Did you call heads or tails ????

 

[jds holler]

Poor guy seems kinda all strung out. jd

 

[jds holler]

Prolly feels like he's been hung out to dry. jd

 

[jds holler]

Seems like he's all "wired up". Maybe too much coffee?? jd