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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : ray1377 March 18, 2010, 03:20:14 PM

: .22 CALLAHAN tastes first blood
: ray1377 March 18, 2010, 03:20:14 PM

SHADOW this one's for you.
I loaded up the CALLAHAN this evening with H&N Barracude Match 21.1 grain domed pellets and ever so gently cranked up the red recticle on my 3x9 scope and silently waited in the shadows for the critters to arrive.
I only sat about 20 minutes before the first contestant of the evening showed up.
A nice fat coon.
It was an easy head on (right between the eyes) shot from about 28 yds.
Two somersaults and a flinch later it had punched its ticket.
It weighed right at 17 lbs.
I think now, I'll give the hide a rest for a few days and let it calm back down before night hunting again.
This PCP stuff is the cats meow baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ray

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: Furseeker March 18, 2010, 03:41:24 PM

Nice shooting Ray. Great picture. Can't wait to see more.

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: dk1677 March 19, 2010, 01:16:45 AM

Nice shooting and gun!

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: 1377x March 19, 2010, 02:28:56 AM

congrats
nice shooting
great pic

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: shadow March 19, 2010, 06:33:15 AM

Outstanding shot and pic Ray and I'm pretty sure that this is the first Bandit taken with a pistola on GTA. :) a BIG congrat's on your first hunt with her and a prize harvest to top it off. :) Ed

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: mvhunter March 19, 2010, 11:42:15 AM

WOW what a great pic....the pistola did you right...nice shot and it didnt take you long to find your prize........

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: jake March 19, 2010, 12:13:40 PM

great shooting! thats a decent sized coon, once you go pcp you never look at springers the same way lol

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: only1harry March 19, 2010, 05:17:12 PM

Holy smokes!  Nice job Ray!!  This is definitely the first coon I have seen taken with a pistol.. and a big pistol it is!  

Nice shooting!!

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: gamo2hammerli March 22, 2010, 11:04:07 AM

Wow.....look at the size of that coon!!!!   Excellent shot with your homemade long barrelled pistol.