Master Bedroom Woodchucks!

[bsnyder]

22 creed????

 

[Northkill]

Fellas, must be my lucky day today. I just smoked another one…..this time it was a BIG 'ole male and got him with the .300 "Heavy" (Win Mag ). Still had his supper in his mouth!!


Berger 215

Nice. That didn't hurt much.

 

[Northkill]

22 creed????

They are super fun to load and shoot. Do it.

 

[jimbires]

this ones been hanging around my shed . I've been working around in the back yard today , and played cat and mouse with this little one . he finally goofed up , and I let the air out of him . that 140 Berger does a job at 60 or 70 yards .

 

[corsair4360]

We live in the city, and the administration prohibits firearm discharge in the city.... lots of critters go around the house, including deer. I get to watch them go by.... and grind my teeth

 

[Old Hickory 45]

We live in the city, and the administration prohibits firearm discharge in the city.... lots of critters go around the house, including deer. I get to watch them go by.... and grind my teeth

Same here! When I was a kid my brother and I were too young to drive, we each bought full military Argentine 7.65 Mausers and declared total war on varmints, mostly groundhogs.

One farmer paid us to shoot every groundhog on his farm, and we did. It was a three mile walk to his farm.

The last groundhog was a genius and denned under the farmer's garage and dined of the farmer's wife's garden.

Very early one morning I was sitting next to the house under the open kitchen windows while the old couple were in the kitchen. He was eating breakfast and she was washing dishes right inside the window.

That old groundhog was a wily one and took a long time to emerge enough for a shot. I spotted his head and the ground held his stance like that until I decided to go with the shot.

My rifle roared, the farmer wife screamed, and a dish flew into the air and broke on their kitchen floor.

I heard the old farmer roar with laughter and then exclaimed loudly, "There went that dirty last one"!

My bullet went true, right through the groundhog's head. It was about a 75 or 100 yard shot.

The farmer was paying us 25 cents for each kill and handed me an extra dollar for that last one. Back in those days, a dollar was a lot of money.

That all started when my brother and I were walking past the farm and spotted some groundhogs in the hay field so we asked permission to hunt. The old farmer had just broken an axle on his hayrack because of a groundhog hole and swore revenge.

At that time, we received .25 scalp bounty at the courthouse per groundhog and $2.00 for fox scalps.

 

[GLTaylor]

What a wonderful story. Thank you! You obviously had a wonderful childhood.

 

[Old Hickory 45]

Thanks, GL! Yeah, when my brother Charlie and I bought those Mausers on a clearance sale at Wards for $16.50 each, it opened a whole new world for us. Norma hunting ammo was .25 per round, an astounding amount of money considering adults were often working for $1.00 per hour. I think ball ammo was $.04 per round.

A couple of years later we graduated to M1 rifles but still used the Mausers some.

 

[Deputy819]

Okay….'Story Time' (w/pictures to show the progression). Warning-PICTURE HEAVY!
So, just as I finished shutting the pool down for the season this afternoon I happened to spot this pig working around just below my pool. I rushed inside to grab my .243 and just as I opened my safe door I just stopped…..I don't know why…..and then closed the safe door without a rifle, grabbed my phone and began my 'stalk'. The first picture you can see his shape just to the right of the trees. I'll let the picture progression tell the rest of the story. As I type this he's still down the hill fattening up for winter. 'It is well with my soul', fellas. Cheers!

 

[Deputy819]

 

[Deputy819]

 

[Old Hickory 45]

Have you nailed him?

 

[74honker]

Looks like it's close enough for the kids Red Ryder lol.

 

[steel2]

I like that picture story but my trigger finger sure was itching !