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What wildlife have you seen on your rifle range? Pictures are preferred (but I don’t have any). Two days ago while shooting on a 600 yd range, first we saw a feral hog that ran toward us for about 400 yds before my friend finally got its attention and it turned into the adjacent woods. About 15 minutes later two coyotes ran across the range about 150 yds from us. A few years back while shooting about 800 yds at the Austin Gun Club (central Texas), I couldn’t fire when my spotter told me to send it, because there was an 8-pt whitetail standing broadside right in front of my target. The deer get pretty bold when it’s not hunting season. What wildlife have you seen at the range?
 
Turkeys, Deer, Coyotes, Bobcats and a Camry. The Camry had two lost women in it when it just blew right past the firing line. Oh, and the occasional snake.
I stopped for a pause at the end of your first sentence in wonder of what kind of critter a Camry was. Imagine my immense relief to read the second sentence and know that I had not had a stroke or a massive senior moment.
Phew!
 
Saw this guy on our 1000 yard range back in early Oct. Not uncommon since our short lines (2-300) and pit area are in a prairie dog town. He seemed really pissed that I was using the range.
 

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25F38973-6101-4DDD-9C36-15C2FE96A37A.pngSaw these two this past summer at 200 yard berm. Took picture with cell phone thru spotting scope. About 15 minutes later a coyote ran across about 70 yards out and stopped several times. I couldn’t find him in my 45 power fixed scope till he stopped on the side berm. At that point there was no safe shot. He was lucky because that rifle hasn’t been out of the safe for about three years.
 
When my wife and I were at a range I used to belong to were shooting rifles off a bench, we had a fawn grazing in the grass about 50 yards behind us, also have seen them throughout the property. At a different range when I was a teenager shooting my 22-250 I saw a frog hoping around in front of the target. I blasted him! I couldn’t not shoot it!
 
What wildlife have you seen on your rifle range? Pictures are preferred (but I don’t have any). Two days ago while shooting on a 600 yd range, first we saw a feral hog that ran toward us for about 400 yds before my friend finally got its attention and it turned into the adjacent woods. About 15 minutes later two coyotes ran across the range about 150 yds from us. A few years back while shooting about 800 yds at the Austin Gun Club (central Texas), I couldn’t fire when my spotter told me to send it, because there was an 8-pt whitetail standing broadside right in front of my target. The deer get pretty bold when it’s not hunting season. What wildlife have you seen at the range?
At Strategic Edge in Chapel Hill Tennessee I’ve seen plenty of deer and turkey on many occasions
 

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