I posted yesterday about the quick shoot at the dairy on my way home from work, Tuesday I used the Big Cat because the Summit seems to be having some issues connecting. A quick check at home confirmed that the Summit indeed was off zero. But I mad some minor corrections last night and used it again today, to make sure the adjustments were acceptable. I still had 2 fly offs but one only went a short distance before crash landing into the high cattails. I won’t even venture a guess at the distance I shot this bird, but tomorrow I will have the range finder to confirm the distance. Tonight I will just say it was long, way long, probably to long to be shooting, but I had time and pellets are cheap so I kept raining them in until I finally connected. The wind was not strong but it was defiantly present and I could see the pellet and the bird in scope at the same time so I just kept making adjustment in my hold over until I got close. Then on about the 8th shot I was rewarded with the sound of the pellet smack. The bird took flight but was listing to one side quite noticeably before it ran out of will and crash landed.
After walking over to see if by some small chance I could find the bird I took up a sniper position between to large straw bales, it proved to be a great place to miss a few birds from. I then headed back over the truck and on my way there a few birds landed in the 30 yard tree. Leaning over the hood I locked on the highest bird in the tree, pulled a mile of creep out of the trigger and watched with great satisfaction as the bird dropped stone cold dead at the shot. Over the gate I went to collect my prize and found her under the tree, once there a few more land in the tree next to the truck so I line up, fire and down comes number 2, back to the truck with one bird in hand and one on the ground near the truck. I put both birds in the bed and load up satisfied with my two bird evening. Just then 5 more land back in the 30 yard tree so I load up for one more shot and happily watch this one do the same as the other two, no flap and flight, jut strait to the ground with no movement. I’d say I got the Summit back in line. Below are the pictures off both guns and a two evening take.
Quick note, on the long shot, I ran out of mil dots and fianlly ended up holding where the cross hairs goes form thick to thin. I'm interested in finding out what the exact yardage was. I did have to give it about 3 dots worth of wind drift.
