First blood with 6SLR - and the season is over
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Re: First blood with my new 6SLR
Got on a dandy (new to me) bean field this evening. Shot 8 hogs with 11 shots, shortest was 279 and longest 532 yards. Still plenty of daylight left but then I realized Dogbone is coming up tomorrow and I'm down to 15 loaded rounds. So I packed up and headed back to the motorhome to do some reloading for tomorrow.
Got on a dandy (new to me) bean field this evening. Shot 8 hogs with 11 shots, shortest was 279 and longest 532 yards. Still plenty of daylight left but then I realized Dogbone is coming up tomorrow and I'm down to 15 loaded rounds. So I packed up and headed back to the motorhome to do some reloading for tomorrow.
WDRe: First blood with my new 6SLR
Well, I use 10X range finding binoculars to find them and a Sightron 10-50x60 to shoot them. I shot two over 1000 yards last summer. At those long ranges, the binoculars only tell me there is a brown object - the scope tells me its a groundhog.
Central Ohio is where all the shooting is happening.
Well, I use 10X range finding binoculars to find them and a Sightron 10-50x60 to shoot them. I shot two over 1000 yards last summer. At those long ranges, the binoculars only tell me there is a brown object - the scope tells me its a groundhog.
Central Ohio is where all the shooting is happening.
Re: First blood with my new 6SLR
Shot 4 today with the 6XC. All four were in the same corner of a soybean field and were at 296 yards give or take a couple. I have a ten in a row string going with two of those just over 400 yards.
Season total now stands at 66. DANG!! I have a long way to go to equal last year's total of 427.
Shot 4 today with the 6XC. All four were in the same corner of a soybean field and were at 296 yards give or take a couple. I have a ten in a row string going with two of those just over 400 yards.
Season total now stands at 66. DANG!! I have a long way to go to equal last year's total of 427.
Re: First blood with my new 6SLR
I feel your pain Nomad! Last year I was 55 at 4th of July! Today I sit at 26
I have been giving my recently discharged Son my "Honey Holes" and enjoy watching him score. That brings me more enjoyment than trying to break a record. I know you share the shooting with several others also. Keep up the great shooting!
I feel your pain Nomad! Last year I was 55 at 4th of July! Today I sit at 26
I have been giving my recently discharged Son my "Honey Holes" and enjoy watching him score. That brings me more enjoyment than trying to break a record. I know you share the shooting with several others also. Keep up the great shooting!
Re: First blood with my new 6SLR
Thanks, MrM. I got 4 this morning in a large bean field - all just a little over 500 yards, then I got 6 this evening in a different bean field. Three of those were under 150 yards, the fifth was 502 yards, then I missed at 482 - and my string of consecutive one shot kills stopped at 19.
Thanks, MrM. I got 4 this morning in a large bean field - all just a little over 500 yards, then I got 6 this evening in a different bean field. Three of those were under 150 yards, the fifth was 502 yards, then I missed at 482 - and my string of consecutive one shot kills stopped at 19.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - Eagle steals g'hog
You guys aren't gonna believe this. I still find it hard to believe.
A friend from Dayton, OH came over for a day of groundhog shooting with me. It was raining this morning so we headed to a large soybean field in a river bottom that had an equipment open sided shed where we could park and keep dry. After he got one (light rain at this time) in about the middle of the field, it was my turn and we spotted one on the right side of the field near a woods line. 470 yards, DRT. At least we thought so as it disappeared in the beans and we heard that distinctive 'thud' when the bullet hit. While I was removing the empty case and checking velocity on my MagnetoSpeed chrono, my friend said a hawk just landed on my hog. Now we're both watching thru our scopes and we can see the head has some white on it. Then the 'hawk' tries to fly with the groundhog. When it spread its wings, we both said "That's no hawk, that's a young Bald Eagle". That eagle fed on that hog for a good hour and tried to fly away with the hog a couple more times.
I had a mature Bald Eagle feed on one of kills once before but the groundhog had been dead for an hour or two before the eagle started feeding. And I have even seen hawks chase off buzzards at a kill, but today was a first.
You guys aren't gonna believe this. I still find it hard to believe.
A friend from Dayton, OH came over for a day of groundhog shooting with me. It was raining this morning so we headed to a large soybean field in a river bottom that had an equipment open sided shed where we could park and keep dry. After he got one (light rain at this time) in about the middle of the field, it was my turn and we spotted one on the right side of the field near a woods line. 470 yards, DRT. At least we thought so as it disappeared in the beans and we heard that distinctive 'thud' when the bullet hit. While I was removing the empty case and checking velocity on my MagnetoSpeed chrono, my friend said a hawk just landed on my hog. Now we're both watching thru our scopes and we can see the head has some white on it. Then the 'hawk' tries to fly with the groundhog. When it spread its wings, we both said "That's no hawk, that's a young Bald Eagle". That eagle fed on that hog for a good hour and tried to fly away with the hog a couple more times.
I had a mature Bald Eagle feed on one of kills once before but the groundhog had been dead for an hour or two before the eagle started feeding. And I have even seen hawks chase off buzzards at a kill, but today was a first.
Re: First blood with 6SLR - Eagle steals g'hog
Word to the WISE Bill
Knox County ODNR Agents are checking Ohio Hunting Licenses.....this pertains to residents and non-residents.
If I recall correctly, I remember the last time we met, you did not have a non-resident Ohio Hunting License.
It would suck to get all of your fine hunting gear confiscated....
Word to the WISE Bill
Knox County ODNR Agents are checking Ohio Hunting Licenses.....this pertains to residents and non-residents.
If I recall correctly, I remember the last time we met, you did not have a non-resident Ohio Hunting License.
It would suck to get all of your fine hunting gear confiscated....
Re: First blood with 6SLR - passed 100, just shy of 1000
Nice work Nomad! Missing is frustrating but keeps us coming back! ;D
Nice work Nomad! Missing is frustrating but keeps us coming back! ;D
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