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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : nalby September 01, 2008, 10:39:45 AM
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Well here we go again, It's Mon. about 4:PM I look out the window and I see a chipmunk just sitting on a rock in the yard. I head for the basement pick up my trusty B26 .22, crack open the basement door line up the shot and BAM head shot at 25yrds.Just then I hear some leaves moving at the wood line, I'm already loaded for a followup shot but then I see another chipmunk just in the high grass looking at me, so I line up another shot adjusting my scope for 35yds and WAM another head shot.The first chippy died on impact the second did a 2 foot flipping death roll. Two down 5 million to go lol
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Great shootin Jim and their resting peacfully on your baby, great pic. I don't think they stood a chance with a .22 hehehe. Ed
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I wish I had chipmonks.. Alas its these dam realitives of thiers i'm stuck with...
A quail here and thier would be nice, mabey a nutter or 2.. NOOOO !!! all I have is the hairless tailed deck versions.
great shootin.
Disclaimer: no I aint gunna quit feedin them.. lol
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Chip !!! !Dale!!!!! Good shooting on both.....
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Awesome shooting and great pic!
Just last week I saw 2 chipmonks for the 1st time at the edge of my property but they were running around mostly on the neighbor's property 30+yds out. I think they just moved in because I 've been living here 13yrs and never saw a chipmunk. My neighbor has a lot of junk and a wood pile behind his shed and that would seem to be their new home. I know at my parents' after I built a pile of branches from spring & fall cleaning, it became home to 1/2 dozen or more chipmunks in a couple of years' time.
I give you a lot of credit. I was watching the chipmonks through my scope at 8X, 30+yds out, and they were definitely small targets and looked hard to hit. The only chipmunk I ever got was when I was 14 or 15 with my Crosman 760 Pump. Got him with a BB that went through both sides of his chest at 16-17yds. My cat got hold of it and was playing with it for a couple of hours until my sister came home from grammar school. She was about 7. I couldn't get the dang chipmonk away from the cat to dispose of it. She saw it in the cat's mouth and started crying because she thought the cat had killed Chip! :-) I thought they 'd notice the holes on either side but my parents or anyone didn't take a close look and everyone thought the cat got him. I was spared from being grounded or having my airgun taken away because I wasn't supposed to shoot any animals in the back yard. Little did they know I was shooting anything that moved, when they were not around, hehe.
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B26 / 22 with a Bushnell Trophy 4-12X 40 mm? No contest, rodents! Nice shots, Jim. What kind of mounts are those? Is that B26 tuned?
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Good shootin Jim,
Better get a few tubes of your favorite pellets, two out of two, and 5 million to go, will take alot of shootin, good luck !
Thanks for sharing with us !
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Fine shooting for sure and a great pic.......
Jeff
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Dr. Tommy: The only mount I know that has 6 screws and looks like that is the BKL 260. I have a couple of them myself - hek of a mount if you have Magnum springers. Indestructible. I also use a BKL 260 on my mid-powered Diana 36 too.
If I had to guess I 'd say this one is probably the 260D4 or D7 that offers 0.004" or 0.007" droop compensation. BKL makes a regular 260 with no droop compensation and also 260 with high rings, but again with no drop comp. The D4 & D7 only come with standard (medium) height rings.
I said indestructible because when my 1st BKL 260-D7 arrived from SS, the dog (about a year old - untrained & undesciplined) from across the street snatched the small UPS box while we were out. He had done that with other UPS/Fedex packages and to other neighbors in the past.. He chewed it really bad so by the time I started wondering a couple of days later where the package is, he had taken it out of the plastic and was playing with it for more than 48hrs. We found the UPS packing slip (chewed up) and remains of the cardboard box on the neighbor's lawn but the mount itself was nowhere to be found, just the pieces of the hard plastic container everywhere. I finally found it like 3-4 days later in the middle of the street about 130yds up the road. It had gotten run over by cars and it had small tiny indentations and scratches from the dog's canines and was full of mud. After I cleaned it, I used it and it's fully functional! I would have thought this dog's teeth would have done more damage, but the tiny hair scratches are microscopic as are the little surface puncture marks - like the size of a pin needle, very had to see. The neighbor said she remembers the dog chewing on it for hours and she was wondering what it had in its mouth! The got rid of the dog a few months ago while it was still a puppy at just over 1yr old. They never walked it or tried to train it, so they shouldn't have a dog at all.
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Great story, Harry. Sounds like a potential gun dog to me. BKL 260, huh? Have to check into that one as I seem to have a magnum springer on the way.
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Yup,,, it's a BKL 260 allright,,, and they are a heck of a mount... I have a couple and their holding power once mounted is simply amazing....
Jeff
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You got the scope right very good, Harry picked the mount BKL 260-D7 and I got the B26 from MM he did a lube tune and some trigger work ( it's really smooth)
Thanks Guys for complements this is a great forum everyone here is just so friendly
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Wow, that's really good shooting. 25 and 35 yard head shots at such small targets. Congrats.