and MADE IT ! This afternoon late and after work I went out to my favorite honey hole for groundhogs. The hay had just been cut last weekend and rolled Tuesday so the groundhogs are real shy and nervous. I had been popping a few coming in just a few feet into the fields from out lying taller grass and brush. From my bench on a trailer that I keep parked on top of a ridge overlooking the fields are a few holes that are over 500 yds. but most are within 300 yds. I had been hitting them pretty good between 300 and 400 yds. but couldn't connect much further for one reason or another until tonight. I have been using my Remington 40x in a Shehane Tracker II stock with a 25" Pac-Nor 11" twist 20 Tac barrel with a muzzle break. Mounted on the rifle I have a Leupold 6-20X Vari-III with 1/4" clicks. I like the muzzle break not cause the 20 Tac is a hard recoiler but because I can see my hits,and misses) with the 20x power scope shooting off a Harris BR bipod. This rifle likes H-4198 and 40 gr. VMaxs. Anyway, a storm was moving in from the next valley over and the wind was getting up and everything was getting cooler and darker and I saw these two hogs two hay fields over. I lasered the closest tall grass at 620 yds. Then estimated the wind and clicked 4 clicks of windage and 30 clicks of elevation.
I missed the first shot cranked more windage and still had one hog still out, missed another shot and both hogs had run off now. I ended up clicking 14 clicks of windage and 33 clicks of elevation but had to wait 15 minutes before one of the hogs stepped back into the hay field. The wind was getting up and then dying so I tried to squezze my shot off in a wind condition just like my last missed shot and finally I had what I thought I needed and squezzed it off and to my real surprize the 40 gr. VMax connected and I got to see it all in my scope. When the ghog's tail started wiggling up in the air I knew my shot was good.I drove over to the hog and lasered 618 yds. back to my bench.
Here is a picture of the ridge I was shooting from taken from the groundhog hole back to the bench.
RYW
I missed the first shot cranked more windage and still had one hog still out, missed another shot and both hogs had run off now. I ended up clicking 14 clicks of windage and 33 clicks of elevation but had to wait 15 minutes before one of the hogs stepped back into the hay field. The wind was getting up and then dying so I tried to squezze my shot off in a wind condition just like my last missed shot and finally I had what I thought I needed and squezzed it off and to my real surprize the 40 gr. VMax connected and I got to see it all in my scope. When the ghog's tail started wiggling up in the air I knew my shot was good.I drove over to the hog and lasered 618 yds. back to my bench.
Here is a picture of the ridge I was shooting from taken from the groundhog hole back to the bench.
RYW
