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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : Wingman115 February 16, 2010, 12:56:29 PM

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: Wingman115 February 16, 2010, 12:56:29 PM
Well I had the day off so I decided to head up to the local mountains to see what sort of squirrel activity there was. I showed up on site about 11am and the squirrels were just everywhere! Squirrel count for the day was 12 confirmed with 3 that got into their bunkers before I could double tap them. Most of the squirrels were taken with my new Mac 1 2240 with the red dot I'm starting to really like this gun. A few of the other kills were taken with the 850. The highlight of the day was I spotted a squirrel about 35 yards out with just the head exposed. I chose the 850 for that mission took aim on the squirrels head and took the shot. Missed! the shot landed about 2 inches to the left and the squirrel stood still. I took aim again and put the mil dot crosshairs on the squirrels eye and fired and he dropped like a rock! All in all it was a great day in the local mountains and relaxing thinning the squirrel herd. Pic #7 is the head shot pic with the 850.
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: only1harry February 16, 2010, 01:08:16 PM
Wow you got all those ground squirrels in 1 day?  Nice shooting!!  

That was quite a day you had with the 850.  Very nice!!
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: atchman2 February 16, 2010, 01:13:12 PM
Man! that looked like FUNzor!
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: Wingman115 February 16, 2010, 01:16:02 PM
Weather conditions were just right and the squirrels were out in force.
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: dk1677 February 16, 2010, 01:26:39 PM
Great day! Nice shooting!
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: 1377x February 17, 2010, 12:53:58 AM
wow nice haul
great shooting
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: shadow February 17, 2010, 01:50:29 AM
That's a good bag of ground nutters Wingman, great shooting and pic's. Ed
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: longislandhunter February 17, 2010, 02:16:14 AM
Good shooting and great pics....  You had a very successful day in the field  :)

Sure wish I had ground squirrels here to shoot at.....  they only live in one place near me..... the Bronx Zoo  :)

Jeff
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: Wingman115 February 17, 2010, 03:03:07 AM
Their crafty lil buggers. They fun to hunt. You have to use stealth mode to get close enough to hit them with air guns.
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: airiscool February 17, 2010, 03:03:41 AM
Very nice shooting. Great way to spend a day.

Paul.
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: gamo2hammerli February 17, 2010, 09:40:53 AM
Wow....those are excellent shots with both your airguns.  The 35 yards shot is especially great.
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: jake February 18, 2010, 04:26:28 AM
wow! what a morning! lol great shooting!