has been coming down steady for the last couple days and with it wind which doesn't help when trying to lock onto a critter.:( Today the wind let up and with over five inches of fresh snow I was ready to get out and get some hunting in. With all the snow around the decision was made to Pull out the Powerline and put her to work once again. My gear was loaded and I was off to Nut City since I had setup several natural blind's awhile back I planed on holding up in one of them and let the Squirrel's do the legwork for a change. I arrived and was greeted by the resident who was shoveling his drive so I grabbed the extra snow shovel and together we made short work of it. All warmed up now :) we chatted for a moment and then I was off to thin the population a little more. I slowly made my way through the snow and into the wood's, it was very peaceful and what a beautiful sight to see everything dressed in white, just love Ma Nature. I stopped and took in the sight's and scanned the tree's for movement, there were several Squirrels moving around back and in the vicinity of one of my blinds so I weaved my way through the tree's and after several minute's arrived at the back of my blind, it looked even better with snow on and around it so I slipped in and settled onto my stool. I had lost sight of them on my way to the blind but knew that they were moving about so it was just a waiting game and after about forty minutes I spotted a good sized one making it's way down the tree at about thirty yards out. I already had the Powerline laid out in front of me on my limb rest so I just followed her with the scope and waited for her to take a break. She made her way to the bottom of the trunk and then onto the snow right into a perfect shooting lane. I watched as she started to dig for her stored nut stash, crosshair's waiting for that profile, she pop's up with a nut and stand's on her haunches. Perfect I thought so I popped off the safety, crosshairs locked on, Predator away. THWACK!!!! was the sound as the Predator finds it's mark followed by her going into a brake dance of death for only just a moment then gave up the ghost. I just relaxed a moment, reloaded just in case the other fella was still in the area but I knew better hehehe. I stepped back out of my blind and did a scan around me, nothing moving now so I made my way to my snow harvest which came to thirty three yard's and at 31degrees the blood coming from her was already freezing. The Predator nailed her in the sweetspot and exited out the other,love dem pellet's. I snagged her up and setup for some pic's with my winter baby and I also shot a couple pic's of my natural hide which work's great and hold's up to the weight of the snow which is a plus. Ed
