. . . I gotta get a scope cam setup - thats all there is to it. I sooooo wish I had video of this to show the guys @work.
Readers digest - I dropped a wood chuck at 119 yards yesterday and was ( still am - lol! ) stoked about having made that shot. I'm learning how to use strelok for yardage calculations / hold overs and hold unders / but more specifically dialing up/down on the scope elevation turret. I went out to a spot that I have permission to shoot on and the farmers have recently mowed down the fields and bundled up hay bales. I've known that there are a number of wood chucks in there but they've been able to be "stealth" due to the deep grass. Not now. ;-)
I'm zeroed at 40 yards and my scope has a thing where you can lock the zero so you can't dial below your chosen zero. You'll just have to use the hold under marks on the reticle if shooting at anything inside of 40 . . . So anyway - I get there, take a shot at 40 just to check / verify I'm good and then I set a soda can out on some hay bale I see out in the field - it's not very far away and I guess it to be 70'ish yards. My rangefinder tells me 66. OK. I key 66 into strelok and it tells me up 8 or 9 clicks - I forget exactly what it was. I dial it up on the turret and (pew!) - bingo - pretty much dead on. I'm happy with that. I'm thinking I'm going to set something out a little further and keep testing this and checking to see if it's consistently accurate ( do I have strelok "tuned" to this gun pretty well? )
Then I see mr woodchuck . . . . ;-)
S/He is quite a ways out and I mumbled to myself " . . . . that's gotta be 100 yards or more. . . . " I've never taken a shot at that distance. I ranged it and my rangefinder told me 119. "Whoa . . . " so I tell strelok 119 and it tells me 45 clicks up. I dial to 46. The wood chuck stood up like they tend to do and BAM - I dropped it! Wood chuck just crumbled too - dropped. No flinching, no spasm, no flopping around - just *dropped*. I couldn't believe it . . . I walked out to where it was and yeah - stone dead. Head shot.
I gotta spend a few bucks and get a scope cam setup . . .
Taipan Veteran Long, .22 cal, NSA 20.2g slugs running 920'ish fps
Readers digest - I dropped a wood chuck at 119 yards yesterday and was ( still am - lol! ) stoked about having made that shot. I'm learning how to use strelok for yardage calculations / hold overs and hold unders / but more specifically dialing up/down on the scope elevation turret. I went out to a spot that I have permission to shoot on and the farmers have recently mowed down the fields and bundled up hay bales. I've known that there are a number of wood chucks in there but they've been able to be "stealth" due to the deep grass. Not now. ;-)
I'm zeroed at 40 yards and my scope has a thing where you can lock the zero so you can't dial below your chosen zero. You'll just have to use the hold under marks on the reticle if shooting at anything inside of 40 . . . So anyway - I get there, take a shot at 40 just to check / verify I'm good and then I set a soda can out on some hay bale I see out in the field - it's not very far away and I guess it to be 70'ish yards. My rangefinder tells me 66. OK. I key 66 into strelok and it tells me up 8 or 9 clicks - I forget exactly what it was. I dial it up on the turret and (pew!) - bingo - pretty much dead on. I'm happy with that. I'm thinking I'm going to set something out a little further and keep testing this and checking to see if it's consistently accurate ( do I have strelok "tuned" to this gun pretty well? )
Then I see mr woodchuck . . . . ;-)
S/He is quite a ways out and I mumbled to myself " . . . . that's gotta be 100 yards or more. . . . " I've never taken a shot at that distance. I ranged it and my rangefinder told me 119. "Whoa . . . " so I tell strelok 119 and it tells me 45 clicks up. I dial to 46. The wood chuck stood up like they tend to do and BAM - I dropped it! Wood chuck just crumbled too - dropped. No flinching, no spasm, no flopping around - just *dropped*. I couldn't believe it . . . I walked out to where it was and yeah - stone dead. Head shot.
I gotta spend a few bucks and get a scope cam setup . . .
Taipan Veteran Long, .22 cal, NSA 20.2g slugs running 920'ish fps