GS ONE (not a federal pay grade)
The first GS down was preceded by several GS on the move at 40 yards, not fast but still moving, and I couldn't 'lead' the shot, no sense in spooking the crowd for one crappy shot. I just kept glassing without 'glossing over' and examining too quickly, careful glassing.
GS 1 snuckked up on and was spying me glassing from a seated position on my shooting sticks. Click and a hit then a follow-up shot when he realized he wasn't quite dead. Coyote food.
GS TWO
At "The Wood Pile" which is 12' logs stacked two, three and four high for a 150 yards with a lot of habitat I was on the phone talking with my neighbor, fishing buddy and elk hunter Dude about binoculars. I see one brownish spot on top of log that wasn't there before... click and a hit to the head with a Predator Poly Mag at 30 yards and he fell off the log. The blood mess was SIGNIFICANT and he lay under about three layers of logs and there he shall remain.
If I shot all that I saw the total would be SEVEN. The routine is the same every time, walk up and spook 'em, sit down and wait for 15 to 30 minutes, start glassing carefully the minute you get there and they eventually get curious and find a half hidden position and stare at you. I pretend NOT to see them and slowly get the gun on the bi-pod.
The blue tape is my 'system' for remembering what zero I have. Two pieces of tape for each zero, simple. I shoot rats, occassionally, at 13 yards and then drop 25 clicks for my GS and dairy zero.
The first GS down was preceded by several GS on the move at 40 yards, not fast but still moving, and I couldn't 'lead' the shot, no sense in spooking the crowd for one crappy shot. I just kept glassing without 'glossing over' and examining too quickly, careful glassing.
GS 1 snuckked up on and was spying me glassing from a seated position on my shooting sticks. Click and a hit then a follow-up shot when he realized he wasn't quite dead. Coyote food.
GS TWO
At "The Wood Pile" which is 12' logs stacked two, three and four high for a 150 yards with a lot of habitat I was on the phone talking with my neighbor, fishing buddy and elk hunter Dude about binoculars. I see one brownish spot on top of log that wasn't there before... click and a hit to the head with a Predator Poly Mag at 30 yards and he fell off the log. The blood mess was SIGNIFICANT and he lay under about three layers of logs and there he shall remain.
If I shot all that I saw the total would be SEVEN. The routine is the same every time, walk up and spook 'em, sit down and wait for 15 to 30 minutes, start glassing carefully the minute you get there and they eventually get curious and find a half hidden position and stare at you. I pretend NOT to see them and slowly get the gun on the bi-pod.
The blue tape is my 'system' for remembering what zero I have. Two pieces of tape for each zero, simple. I shoot rats, occassionally, at 13 yards and then drop 25 clicks for my GS and dairy zero.
