Author Topic: S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings  (Read 1998 times)

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S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings
« on: August 15, 2006, 03:44:23 PM »
Took the wife and daughter to the aquarium during the day to spend some quality family time, but made sure we got home in time for me to get in some pest control shooting during the last couple hours of daylight.  Starling shooting wasn't that great, plenty of birds but for some reason most of them stayed at the opposite end of the farm from where I had set up my blind.  I did get some birds to land within range and wound up nailing 6 of them. Finished out the hunt trying to stalk within range of some woodchucks as they fed.  First chuck I snuck up on was a really huge adult, and while I did get to within 20 yards of him I decided not to shoot simply because he was so large that I didn't think the .177 pellets would do him in humanely.  Snuck up on a 2nd chuck, 1/2 the size of the first one, but  could just not get a clear head shot so passed on him.  3rd chuck I saw took me 20 minutes of stalking but got within 15 yards of him before he knew I was there and dropped him on the spot.  He was a very young, small chuck, but just the right size for the S1K at that range.  
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Re: S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2006, 01:57:08 AM »
You better hose off that deck before the missus sees it!

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nice shooting, LIH.

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Re: S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2006, 11:50:35 AM »
wow...you took him with a chest shot,never saw that shot used on a "big" airgun game animal...except your woodchuck and peterdragins coon,nice shot man!BTW what pellets were you using???i wanna get some in case i encounter a groundhog on one of my hunts

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Re: S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2006, 01:02:17 PM »
I'm glad some one got some hunting done I've been so busy with work and my new baby  girl I barely have time  chat with you guys .KEEP ON SHOOTING

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Re: S1K Hunt Results : 1 Woodchuck - 6 Starlings
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2006, 01:15:18 PM »
Actually Yote,, the shot that killed him was the first shot which was a head shot, unfortunately that shot is on the side of the head that you can't see in the pics.  After he dropped he was lying on his back still "twitching" a bit so I shot him again just for good measure.  The second shot actually entered his stomack and exited the chest area near his front foo (which is what you are seeing in the pic).  As for what pellets I was using,,,, they were RWS Superdomes.
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