269 Yard Ground Squirrel shot. DRT on top of a fence post. Luck?

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Long_Shot

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I wasn't planning to shoot a Squirrel today......

I started out today to shoot 1 - 5 shot 200 yard group on paper. Then shoot and video 2 - water filled cans at that 200 & 205 yardages to confirm that I still have enough power to get a HP slug to expand properly for that and beyond. 

I videoed the 200 yard can, but the one at 205 (next post down) was behind another post. Shot it off video. 

So here's my 200 yard group I jacked up. 

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So I went to the shooting the cans of water. 1 anyway. 

https://youtu.be/EnT8DknYE1c

I saw the Squirrel in the video, not the scope.

Since I have seen a few Ground Squirrels there (270 - 300 yards) lately & 3 this morning I adjusted the optimizer to 270 yards. 

I shot at a few that I was unable to verify their range and hold over. 270 - nearly 300 yards probably. 

Just need one at 270. Then at 270 yards (269 actually) on a fence post sits one. 

1 shot pow, just laid there in it's side atop that post for about 5-6 seconds then slowly rolled off, where I found him.

I would like to give honor to my "Trophy Ground Squirrel". 

Right up there with all my Elk, Deer, Bear and a Cougar Bow Shot grocery's. IMO.

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I would have liked to put this in a Long Range Sub-Forum. Just my thought. 




 
That is an incredible distance to cleanly take that squirrel. If I was there and witnessed it, I probably would have fell off whatever I was sitting on. Luck? Yes but not on the trajectory. That was all you. The luck was pushing a 2.5 inch 200yrd grouper another 70yrds and hoping one would land in a one inch kill zone. Either way, it had to be a pretty gratifying experience.
 
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Camera was about 2-3' to my left. On max. zoom. 

Here's my setup. Cricket .35 cal. modified to a .25 cal. with a 26" long TJ 1-22" twist barrel. 

37.7gr. slugs @ 938 - 942 FPS. I make on a Corbin Press. Optimizer for long range shooting. 

I made all the parts. So that makes the thing a little cool to me anyway. 

Thanks for all the nice compliments. 



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Those are very nice, very aero slugs, you say you made them!! wow can anyone buy a Corbin press? Im in!
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You can get the hole set up for about $1360.00 at Corbin.com I believe. I just call them or drive there. About 30 miles. 

Vetmx - You had great points about the odds of hitting reliably at 269 yards. 

I was curious about hitting something again myself. Yesterday afternoon I put a water filled can on ea. of the last 2 posts (269 yards and about 265).

First 3 shots nothing, holding 1.5 mil left for wind. No dirt cloud to use to see where your hitting here. 

4th shot 1 mil left and I nicked the top left side, saw water splash from the top. Found it.

Next shots were hard to say in exact order but I managed to hit both cans 4 times out of 11 shots. 

First 3 were just pocking holes in the sky for the windage. Spotters if you will. 

So my math is 4 hits (sort of hits) out of the remaining 8 shots, is a gun that is about a 50% hit potential at that yardage. 

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Not dead center in the middle hits. But, still kind of fun. 
 
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Well you answered your own question about luck. But what I still find impressive is if I took my Wilson barreled .22 rimfire and shot a target round, something going as slow as your airgun, I almost guarantee I couldn’t hit a can 4 out of 11 times at 270yrds. And you are doing it with a bullpup, a gun designed for close quarters combat to boot. Your slugs are the real deal. They look like you made them on a lathe.
 
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