First blood with 6SLR - and the season is over
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Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
Congrats on the mounting count and on the new record for the SLR.
Would love to have seen that Eagle! They are my most favorite bird of prey!
Have been getting out more since we got back from OH and getting the attic cleaned out. My count is no where near yours or others, but I have not been nearly as active as in past years because of all the house cleaning activities. But with 5 last Tuesday and 5 more today, the numbers are climbing ever so slowly.
Congrats on the mounting count and on the new record for the SLR.
Would love to have seen that Eagle! They are my most favorite bird of prey!
Have been getting out more since we got back from OH and getting the attic cleaned out. My count is no where near yours or others, but I have not been nearly as active as in past years because of all the house cleaning activities. But with 5 last Tuesday and 5 more today, the numbers are climbing ever so slowly.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
You got the HOT right, Bangs. When are we gonna get together for some shooting?
Doug, I saw a juvenile bald eagle today and an adult twice (same one, same field) recently. Of course when you spend in excess of 40 hours per week hunting chucks, you're bound to see a lot of wildlife. I see deer nearly every time I'm out, but haven't seen the first coyote and few raccoon. I've seen two BIG eight point (eastern count) bucks recently - still in velvet. My guess they will end up with ten or twelve points.
You got the HOT right, Bangs. When are we gonna get together for some shooting?
Doug, I saw a juvenile bald eagle today and an adult twice (same one, same field) recently. Of course when you spend in excess of 40 hours per week hunting chucks, you're bound to see a lot of wildlife. I see deer nearly every time I'm out, but haven't seen the first coyote and few raccoon. I've seen two BIG eight point (eastern count) bucks recently - still in velvet. My guess they will end up with ten or twelve points.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
Have seen some Red Tail Hawks, a Red Fox, several deer including two does with triplets at different locations. Have not seen that in along time. The one set busted from the other side of a hill. Then one of the fawns came running back out, stopping about 30 yards away. Then all of a sudden it charged me, then stopped about 15 yards away. I knelt down, but it ran away. That was really cool!! Most of the bucks I've seen are still in velvet. All young spikes or four pointers. But alas, no Eagles.
Have seen some Red Tail Hawks, a Red Fox, several deer including two does with triplets at different locations. Have not seen that in along time. The one set busted from the other side of a hill. Then one of the fawns came running back out, stopping about 30 yards away. Then all of a sudden it charged me, then stopped about 15 yards away. I knelt down, but it ran away. That was really cool!! Most of the bucks I've seen are still in velvet. All young spikes or four pointers. But alas, no Eagles.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
I hunted a soybean field this evening that stretched to 525 yards. I saw over 20 deer but some of them could have been the same ones as I never saw more than 6 at one time.
I shot 4 chucks but had to pull a "Dogbone special" to shoot them. Explanation: Off to my left was a huge brush pile created by the farmer when he took down some trees to make more bean field. The end of the brush pile was only a tad over 100 yards from me with the far side sloping up to the beans and the slope was mostly dirt. The evening sun was in that direction making it hard to see anything on the dirt. On one of my swings with my binoculars to scan the slope, three young chucks that were on the slope and heading for the beans caught my movement and made a beeline for the brush. So I swung my bench around to face the brush pile and waited. After about 10 minutes I spotted on up on one of the logs so I froze and soon it retreated. That was my cue to chamber a round, turn on the MagnetoSpeed, and watch thru the scope. Sure enough, after about a minute, it started up the slope. DRT. After a couple more minutes a second one started up the slope. DRT. And after another minute or two, the third one came out and started checking #2. DRT. So I went back to scanning the big field with nary a sighting. But not too surprising as I had shot 14 on two previous evenings. Another swing over to the brush pile yielded another one up on a log scoping out the area. And that was my fourth of the evening.
So I was set up on a bean field that is 525 yards long and 300 yards wide and all four kills were under 125 yards. :
I hunted a soybean field this evening that stretched to 525 yards. I saw over 20 deer but some of them could have been the same ones as I never saw more than 6 at one time.
I shot 4 chucks but had to pull a "Dogbone special" to shoot them. Explanation: Off to my left was a huge brush pile created by the farmer when he took down some trees to make more bean field. The end of the brush pile was only a tad over 100 yards from me with the far side sloping up to the beans and the slope was mostly dirt. The evening sun was in that direction making it hard to see anything on the dirt. On one of my swings with my binoculars to scan the slope, three young chucks that were on the slope and heading for the beans caught my movement and made a beeline for the brush. So I swung my bench around to face the brush pile and waited. After about 10 minutes I spotted on up on one of the logs so I froze and soon it retreated. That was my cue to chamber a round, turn on the MagnetoSpeed, and watch thru the scope. Sure enough, after about a minute, it started up the slope. DRT. After a couple more minutes a second one started up the slope. DRT. And after another minute or two, the third one came out and started checking #2. DRT. So I went back to scanning the big field with nary a sighting. But not too surprising as I had shot 14 on two previous evenings. Another swing over to the brush pile yielded another one up on a log scoping out the area. And that was my fourth of the evening.
So I was set up on a bean field that is 525 yards long and 300 yards wide and all four kills were under 125 yards. :
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
I've been immortalized by Nomad as doing a special, but there's nothing special about how I shoot. Especially when compared to the likes of all you long range technicians.
Hey, you got to take them as they come. And if they're in the short range category, well then, have at it. You can't find more fun like this while helping out our farmers. Or in my case, golfers. LOL
I've been immortalized by Nomad as doing a special, but there's nothing special about how I shoot. Especially when compared to the likes of all you long range technicians.
Hey, you got to take them as they come. And if they're in the short range category, well then, have at it. You can't find more fun like this while helping out our farmers. Or in my case, golfers. LOL
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
Well, Doug, as you know our chuck hunting styles are quite different. And when I saw those three chucks heading for their den, I knew I wouldn't see them again if I kept my style of swatting flys, drinking water, binoculars up and down, etc. Hence, your style of 'lying in wait'. ;D
Well, Doug, as you know our chuck hunting styles are quite different. And when I saw those three chucks heading for their den, I knew I wouldn't see them again if I kept my style of swatting flys, drinking water, binoculars up and down, etc. Hence, your style of 'lying in wait'. ;D
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
This morning started out with a miss.
I was using my Savage 12BVSS with the 6XC barrel and a g'hog appeared near a round bale. I ranged the round bale at 560 yards, made the scope correction, plugged in the MagnetoSpeed, adjusted the Tarey bipod, and watched the bullet sail right over the feeding hog's back. It promptly split for the weeds. I then took the time to do a better range of where it was feeding and I got a reading of 540 yards. That would have made my POI 2" higher than POA. Hard to tell at that yardage but I may have missed even with the correct scope setting. A while later, a large adult appeared a few yards further and I took plenty of time to get a good range reading - 583 yards. A light breeze was coming at me from 1 o'clock and I figured it was just about right to cancel out spin drift, so the windage turret went to zero. The tail went into the telltale spin almost immediately after bullet impact.
No more sightings for the next hour and it is now lunch time.
I went back out to the same field for the evening hunt but set up near the 583 yarder so I could have the evening sun at my back with a different view of the hay field. Three feeding groundhogs killed with three shots; 297, 310, and 292 yards. Then a fourth appeared and I ranged it at 272 yards. After I adjusted scope and bipod, I discovered it was 20 yards closer and on the move. It kept moving and I kept adjusting. It finally briefly stopped and I took a hurried shot holding under its chest. My miss put it in high gear and it was soon in the weeds of a water course. This groundhog moved at least 100 yards never stopping to feed. I have no idea what prompted this behavior. Had it been visiting a 'friend' and was now heading home? Looking for a new home?
This morning started out with a miss.
I was using my Savage 12BVSS with the 6XC barrel and a g'hog appeared near a round bale. I ranged the round bale at 560 yards, made the scope correction, plugged in the MagnetoSpeed, adjusted the Tarey bipod, and watched the bullet sail right over the feeding hog's back. It promptly split for the weeds. I then took the time to do a better range of where it was feeding and I got a reading of 540 yards. That would have made my POI 2" higher than POA. Hard to tell at that yardage but I may have missed even with the correct scope setting. A while later, a large adult appeared a few yards further and I took plenty of time to get a good range reading - 583 yards. A light breeze was coming at me from 1 o'clock and I figured it was just about right to cancel out spin drift, so the windage turret went to zero. The tail went into the telltale spin almost immediately after bullet impact. No more sightings for the next hour and it is now lunch time.
I went back out to the same field for the evening hunt but set up near the 583 yarder so I could have the evening sun at my back with a different view of the hay field. Three feeding groundhogs killed with three shots; 297, 310, and 292 yards. Then a fourth appeared and I ranged it at 272 yards. After I adjusted scope and bipod, I discovered it was 20 yards closer and on the move. It kept moving and I kept adjusting. It finally briefly stopped and I took a hurried shot holding under its chest. My miss put it in high gear and it was soon in the weeds of a water course. This groundhog moved at least 100 yards never stopping to feed. I have no idea what prompted this behavior. Had it been visiting a 'friend' and was now heading home? Looking for a new home?
Re: First blood with 6SLR - slim pickin's
Sounds like a fun day Bill. Lots of targets at different ranges will keep you on your toes. From time to time I think of the Ohio rolling countryside where you shoot and find myself wishing I were there more often.
Hope to be making another visit in September one more time before we head South and if possible maybe we can team up again for some hunting fun?
Sounds like a fun day Bill. Lots of targets at different ranges will keep you on your toes. From time to time I think of the Ohio rolling countryside where you shoot and find myself wishing I were there more often.
Hope to be making another visit in September one more time before we head South and if possible maybe we can team up again for some hunting fun?
Re: First blood with 6SLR - skunked again
Yes, Doug, I think we can shoot a few in Sept. We plan on being in OH until about the end of that month.
Went out this morning and got skunked again - for the fourth time this summer. It might be coyotes or it could be that I hit them pretty hard last summer, killing 427.
Yes, Doug, I think we can shoot a few in Sept. We plan on being in OH until about the end of that month.
Went out this morning and got skunked again - for the fourth time this summer. It might be coyotes or it could be that I hit them pretty hard last summer, killing 427.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - passed the 150 mark
Got one yesterday afternoon and three this morning so I passed the 150 mark and am now at 152 for the season.
Kinda hate to admit it but the first one today took four shots to nail. First I mis-ranged it, setting up for 360 yards at first (398 actual yardage), then the wind gave me fits.
Got one yesterday afternoon and three this morning so I passed the 150 mark and am now at 152 for the season.
Kinda hate to admit it but the first one today took four shots to nail. First I mis-ranged it, setting up for 360 yards at first (398 actual yardage), then the wind gave me fits.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - passed the 150 mark
Gents,
This sounds like you have all had awesome fun. How are you guy shooting? Portable benches? Roof of your utes?
Wish we had shooting like that here in Australia.
I've been tossing up which 6mm cartridge I should use for my varminting rig. Toss up between 6mm-250AI, 243AI, 6SLR, 243, 6x47L. It's a toss up!!!
Gents,
This sounds like you have all had awesome fun. How are you guy shooting? Portable benches? Roof of your utes?
Wish we had shooting like that here in Australia.
I've been tossing up which 6mm cartridge I should use for my varminting rig. Toss up between 6mm-250AI, 243AI, 6SLR, 243, 6x47L. It's a toss up!!!
Re: First blood with 6SLR - passed the 150 mark
Here is one of my setups. Keeping the portable bench in the bed of my pickup helps keep the ticks off me. I've still picked 4 of the buggers off me, but that not too bad considering I've been in the fields long enough to kill over 150 groundhogs.
Quickoz, you didn't mention the 6XC. For long range groundhogs and steel, I use a 6SLR, two 6XCs and a due to be delivered today - 243 AI barrel.
Here is one of my setups. Keeping the portable bench in the bed of my pickup helps keep the ticks off me. I've still picked 4 of the buggers off me, but that not too bad considering I've been in the fields long enough to kill over 150 groundhogs.
Quickoz, you didn't mention the 6XC. For long range groundhogs and steel, I use a 6SLR, two 6XCs and a due to be delivered today - 243 AI barrel.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - passed the 150 mark
Bill,
Getting brass for it would be hard and it's would be too similar to 6mm250AI and a normal 243 and 6SLR. To be honest, a 243AI is high in my list just because it can push the 105gr stuff fast and would be a good back up for my 6x47L F-Open rig.
But the SLR has me tempted for sure aswell. Better feeding too then the AI cases. You guys are lucky to have shooting fields like that!! I take it you guy would have burned through a fair few barrels shooting hogs. How do you choose your cals?
Bill,
Getting brass for it would be hard and it's would be too similar to 6mm250AI and a normal 243 and 6SLR. To be honest, a 243AI is high in my list just because it can push the 105gr stuff fast and would be a good back up for my 6x47L F-Open rig.
But the SLR has me tempted for sure aswell. Better feeding too then the AI cases. You guys are lucky to have shooting fields like that!! I take it you guy would have burned through a fair few barrels shooting hogs. How do you choose your cals?
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