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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : shadow June 09, 2007, 09:17:37 AM
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After spending most of the morning in my shop camo painting, working on( Gordon SC) B3 stock I decided to take a break and do a little hunting . I hadn't had the ShadowSport out in awhile and she was itchin to get something. So over the fence and out to the grove of tree's I went with the Shadow and a tin of Gamo Pro Magnums. Well I got there and found myself a nice hide to relaxe in, an old deadfall and scanned the area for movement. To my surprize something had spotted me, sitting on a downed log at about twenty yrds was a squirrel munching on a nut and eyeballing me. Ever so slowly I layed the Shadow across the log, magnum loaded already and placed the crosshair's on his mug. At this point all I could see was a nut with a small head behind it, hoping the pellet will pass through I let it fly. I watched through the scope as the nut blew apart and the squirrel fell down on the other side of the log hmmm. I stood up and loaded another pellet and headed over to where he should be and as I peered over the log there he was. The pellet had entered just to the left side of his head and he still had a small chunk of nut in his mouth. I plucked up my game and headed home, he now rest in my icebox cleaned and ready for a Sunday lunch. Ed
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I couldn't think of better way to take a break. Nice shootin, now get back to work,hehe.
Mike
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Good shootin buddy, nice lookin lunch :)
I gotta try some of those pellets. That's pretty impressive if it blasted through the nut and still took out "skippy".
Jeff
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Thank's Jeff, The Pro Mag's look like a Gamo Hunter pellet except the dome is longer and so far they work great in the ShadowSport, QB78 and both of my B3's like em. Ed
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I look at them every time I order pellets, I just never order them. Next time I will definitely add them to my "basket". They've always looked to me like they should fly well. I know that's not "scientific" but they just look like they should. They sorta kinda remind me of "kodiaks" a bit, and I know the kodiaks perform super in my .22 magnum powered springers.
Jeff
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They work good in my S1K, both B-3's and my Winny.
Mike
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Jeff if ya get em from pyramid air (the gamo pro mags) you also get this snazzy little belt pellet pouch. I have used my pellet pouch and I kind of like it. Thumbs up for the nutter kill Ed, wish there was more prey to hunt in my back yard but it seems the local wildlife has posted a wanted picture up in the neighborhood with my mug on it. Saying something about staying away from this dude's backyard cause a lot of friends have gone into it but not come out hehe.
John
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Great going there Ed,
I never thought of stuffing a squirrel nuts before baking. I'll bet it gives them a good taste !
You guys up north have such cooperative squirrels to hunt. Down here they just run and hide. :-)
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Thank's guy's, I just pretend to be a ol log laying there hehe. He was watching me the whole time but the nut was on the top of his list...was hehe. Ed
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Hmm, nice looking air gun Ed..:) Kinda looks like my Black Shadow Supreme .22.. hehe Love the breaks you take from all your hard work buddy..:)
Oh and by the way. If anyone uses Gamo Pro Mags, you can buy the .177 at Midsouth for over $2.00 cheaper per tin..:)
Pyramid - $7.50 per tin
Midsouth - $5.19 per tin
Gene
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Thank's buddy, yup needed a break.....work on airguns, hunt with airguns hmmm I see a pattern forming here lol and yes check out Midsouth for cheaper lead guy's. Ed
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Yep, Midsouth has cheap lead, tomahawks for $4.99.
Mike
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When I was at CABELAS Friday I picked up some Gamo Rocket's, wanna see what kind of damage I can do. It say's 9.6 grain, we'll see. Ed
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Nice shooting. It looks really green there; we have a bit of a drought here right now.
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Ed, I've tried the rocket's and for me they are good at short dis 25yrds and under. Past that and they realy open up, maybe you will have better luck.
Mike
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Mike, their looking real good at 25yrds, I'm moving out to 30yrds tommorrow and the QB78 love's em. Ed
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Good to hear. I've heard some people talk about the bb falling out, but I never had 1 fall out.
Mike
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Yup, heard that too and I avoided them for awhile but I went through the tin and all look's good. Going to do some hunting this week and field test em.};)- Ed
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You'll like them, they hit HARD.
Mike