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Shot placement on big Eastern groundhogs.
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<blockquote data-quote="CMP70306" data-source="post: 2661785" data-attributes="member: 36999"><p>Strangely enough the only groundhog I ever killed was with a break action pellet gun when I was in my early teens, it was wandering in circles so I snuck up on it and shot it several times before shoving it into the woods with a stick. </p><p></p><p>I did almost kill a second one, missed it by less than an inch at 200 yards with the irons on my 1903 Springfield after crawling 200 yards across the field to get closer. Was shooting towards the setting sun and had to hang my hat on the ladder sight to block the glare enough for the shot. The hole in the bank 6" behind him was right around where he was so my guess is I just barely missed him as I couldn't find any blood and I'm sure a 150gr SST out of an 06 would do a number on them.</p><p></p><p>I really wanted to get into the groundhog hunting but by the time I was old enough to get my own rifles and get into the long range shooting the groundhogs had pretty much been wiped out by the coyotes as we see very few in the fields and the ones we do see are on the edge of or in the woods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CMP70306, post: 2661785, member: 36999"] Strangely enough the only groundhog I ever killed was with a break action pellet gun when I was in my early teens, it was wandering in circles so I snuck up on it and shot it several times before shoving it into the woods with a stick. I did almost kill a second one, missed it by less than an inch at 200 yards with the irons on my 1903 Springfield after crawling 200 yards across the field to get closer. Was shooting towards the setting sun and had to hang my hat on the ladder sight to block the glare enough for the shot. The hole in the bank 6” behind him was right around where he was so my guess is I just barely missed him as I couldn’t find any blood and I’m sure a 150gr SST out of an 06 would do a number on them. I really wanted to get into the groundhog hunting but by the time I was old enough to get my own rifles and get into the long range shooting the groundhogs had pretty much been wiped out by the coyotes as we see very few in the fields and the ones we do see are on the edge of or in the woods. [/QUOTE]
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