June Charlie time

I got out today for a little while in the am. The field had just been cut and the young are starting to feed by themselves. I was able to spot one down the field over a hundered yards away. As I was lining up he feed into a depression and I could not get a shot. As I glassed the field I found another one off to my right near a pile of tree stumps that had been pushed up from an old hedgerow that was taken out of the field. I changed the setup and took a few seconds to get comfortable and squeezed off a shot. The 75gr V-Max did the deed on a big male. Distance was 157 yards.



The field is long and flat on the river bottom, but it has a lot of little rolling ridges in it that are about 2-3 feet tall. So it makes it hard to stalk up on a charlie that is just a little over a ridge and shoot from the ground. 4 more charlies were spotted but no shots could be made. I came home around noon as the sightings slowed to a stop. I had a little lunch and changed out the short bi-pods for some longer ones and headed back down for a short afternoon hunt. I set up on a little ridge till about 3:30 but no charlies surfaced. I had to get home for my boys ball practice, so as I'm working my way back to the van just over the RR tracks a small one is out in the little 3 acre field that I parked in. Easing down beside the tall grass I set up quickly. Just as I get the crosshairs on him at about 80 yards I see movement in front of me. At 25 yards another small one comes out. Quickly adjusting I put a V-Max thru the closer one. The other chuck makes for the edge of the field post haste. I wait another 5 minutes to see if he will come out with no luck. It was just getting to the that time in the afternoon when activity increases but I had to head home.

So far I have taken charlies in March, April, May and June. I'm going to try and get one each month till they hold up for the winter.

Glad to see your getting out. Great shooting Tig!!

Way to go Tig you keep nocking them down like that in the north and I'll see if I can keep up with you in the south.

Good shoot'n!

How many do you have this season clayzzz?

14 for me so far with 16 shots, 87.5%.
Average distance is 98.57 yards per shot.

I'm hoping to add a significant amount to that total in the next couple months.

wow dale 14 aiready and i have not been out at all car is in
the shop out tomorrow i hope then watch out got a hornet for
my encore so i want break it in

Good to see you are getting good field practice in.

Tig so far this season I have taken 8 with a total of 15 shots not as good as you but I'll get there. I added all the yardages and the devided by the amount of kills and came up with a 104.375 yards per shot average. Is this how you came up with your average. The closest shot was 50 yards and the longest shot 190 yards. I hope kill to shot ratio goes up as I get more trigger time being this is my first year of hunting with a handgun only we'll see.

Yup, total yardage divided by actual kills.

Kill ratio is kills divided by total shots.

You are doing great for your first year. I'd have to go back and look at my records for the first year that I kept track, but it's in the ballpark with your numbers.

I should go back and add up all the years that I have kept track and see what I have for total kills. When I was younger I use to keep track on calendars, but they were with a 22 rifle and a shotgun. The calendars are long gone. If I had to guess I was up around 1,000. I remeber one summer at 15 or 16 years of age I got a little over 300 for the summer. I was hunting fool back then.

Glad to see that you are out scaring the critters Tig!Or in this case standing them on their head!