Four misses on same chipmunk... oh my!

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L.Leon

L.Leon

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My Jack Russell doesn’t quite believe my rat escapades, so this morning I took him and the pp700sa on a little walk to the local farm. He inadvertently treed a chipmunk, I took shot one missed, shot two missed, ok I’ll try one more missed... my dog is really giving dubious looks now. I say to myself you took three shots at that chipper it deserves to live, but I took that fourth shot anyway and missed. So the rest of the walk out I’m plinking and hitting what I’m aiming at all the while enduring my dogs’ snickers.

This farm field is across from the first dairy I pest at...not the one where I’m racking up the rat kills. Anyway as I’m leaving the dairy owner pulls up and want to know when I would be back to kill some rats. Told him not until Sunday the earliest. My dog gives me a look of “dude you can’t hit the side of a barn”. Good start to the day.
 
I feel your pain. Been there, done that. with a witness no less.

My buddy and I were squirrel hunting last fall. He was walking toward me as we were heading out and I saw a squirrel run up a tree between us. I motioned to him that there was a squirrel and for him to walk toward the tree. I finally found it spawled out up high on a limb. One shot, miss. Shot two, miss. Squirrel moved to another branch. Shot three, miss. WTH.

Squirrel starts coming down my side. Shot four. Miss. Start cussing and squirrel hits the ground running like a streak of lightning. Buddy looks at me and laughs. My only defense was that I was shooting a springer. My FWB 124D. And it is accurate as I already shot one earlier.
 
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If it was a highly inclined shot, they are tricky. Holdover and holdunder may be vastly different than for horizontal shots. It pays to play around with ChairGun to see some hypotheticals. On most of my hunting rifles, I have two range cards...a 0 degree and 45 degree incline. Checking a phone app is good if you have time but I can usually interpolate well enough with the two range cards. 
 
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