The last few days have been interesting. The weather has been screwy! I have been chased out of the field 3 times from rain. One minute it’s sunny and beautiful and the next a dark cloud moves in and it’s poring. Then half an hour later it’s sunny again.
Anyway, yesterday I was stalking down a hedgerow and I spotted a charlie about a 125 yards down. He bolted for the fence line before I could get set up. I kept moving down the fence line and it occurs to me the top of a fence post where the charlie disappeared looked a little funny. Sure enough sitting on top of a post was Mr. Charlie. I move to my right a few yards for a sure back stop and set up. BANG!! I hear the bullet slap the chuck and he falls off the post. A 77 yard shot with the BEE off the top of a fence post. COOL! In the picture between the middle and bottom wire you can see a light area where he was climbing the post and had scratched off the weathered wood.
Today I got back out and went 5 for 6 shots with the BEE. My fourth kill today was number 50. The BEE took him at 114 yards. I have a grand total of 51 for the year. He was looking right at me and I placed the cross hairs on his neck. You can see the exit hole in the back of his neck, it hit the spine perfectly centered. I don't think he felt a thing.
The wind really picked up late this afternoon. The 40gr bullet really gets pushed around, and the BEE is not the best choice for shots over 150 yards. I have memorized the drop of this bullet and the wind drift correction for a 10 mph crosswind. The scope does not have mil-dots but I have shot this gun enough to know about how much hold over and windage I need. The chuck was standing up with his head cocked back and his nose in the air. I figured he was 175 yards away. I put the horizontal cross hair one inch above his nose and the vertical crosshair about four inches into the wind. At the shot the charlie disappeared. I walked out and checked the distance at 184 yards. The bullet hit almost dead center of his chest. That was 6 inches of drop and 6 inches of drift. Perfect! Not too bad for a really windy day and a light bullet.
