Well yet another beautiful day here in the Peoples Democratic State, weather wise with a bit of a wind from north (behind me) to South. Sadly my retriever Pete wasn't able to join me and Fil was otherwise doing his indentured servitude. So it was just the old guy hauling stuff. Got there about 0945, saw six of the rodents right off the bat. Got set up, decided to actually do something intelligent for a change and zero out my turrets, 75 yards and 100 yards, already have 25 yards as my zero. First up was the Raptor and...ok the darn tank is empty..again...I WILL find that darn leak. Hit the 1" target almost straight away, I was a bit high from prior times on my turret. As I'd knocked the target down and didn't want to hoof it back and forth too much, I just set it up correctly at 100 yards. Went back and finished with the Raptor, then switched to the Maverick .25 VP, using A&E 30.2gr slugs in both, got the Maverick working, shot a few weeds for other distances marked the turret and call it good.
Then the clients came out, nut shell version, 3 siblings from the several I got last week, had a reunion at 25 yards. Saw one over to my right at 85 yards or so, heard a lovely THUNK but, no body, there was a large burrow so it may be in there. Had a few more out a 100 yards or so by the paddocks, added them to the Buzzard Brunch..getting my steps in, with a screwed up achellies tendon, ouch. Saw one over a touch to my right 100 yards, THUNK, left it there for later marked it on my map. One over across the arena through the fence, THUNK, but a HUGE burrow there. A few more candidates for the brunch menu popped up, missed a few got a few.
Net 6 for the brunch menu, 3 hits but no bodies so a total of 9. I did accidentally find that one I'd mentioned above so it's in the 6. oh upon arrival I saw what had to be 8 - 10 Turkey Vultures circling over across the arena.
Group shot, I mucked up some of the photos so....second is an exit wound, I'm going guess it wasn't going anywhere.
I added magnifiers to my turrets, big difference for the mature eyes.
Just added a picture of my map, I tried Google and Apple but they were too old so, I broke out my drone, got it up 300' and boom the picture I wanted. Basically Left is north, pretty sure you all can figure out the rest. I'm under the roof of the building center left. If you look you can see X's for the approximate location of the critter. Dead center is a green spot that's the Oasis it's 70 yards, out a bit more are 5 hitching posts 100 yards, the white fence is the end of the property at 100ish yards. Going clockwise that large square is multiple thousands of dollars that I avoid like well it's damn expensive to hit, passing on that one, then the entry 100 - 125 yards. then the fence and a road about 3' higher than the squirrels and some houses scattered. Going back around you can see the corrals, a ring, more corrals about 100+ yards and the area surrounded by a chain link fence and yet another chain link fence between me and it, a challenge.. That rectangular area with the 3 x's is the drain field for the septic.
