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These pictures were taken this past Memorial Day weekend 2004. My dad and I know a rancher in Montana approximately 30 miles west of Billings that owns approximately 250 acres of prairie dog infested land. Let's just say it was a "target rich" environment. The bench I'm using is a folding/portable Cabela's bench. The bench rest is a Hoppe's Expert and I used 2 elbow bags to steady the butt stock. Most of the shots I took initially were taken within 150 yards. That didn't last long once the dogs got skittish. Before long, the shots were 250+ yards. The weather wasn't the best with partly cloudy skies and wind gusts to 25-35 mph. This had a tremendous effect on shot placement and required me to adjust for windage. I was forced to use mostly Kentucky windage. The rifle I'm using is a Remington ADL 700 chambered in 22-250. I hand loaded the ammo. 50 gr Hornady V-Max bullets on top of 35 gr of IMR 4064 powder using CCI primers and mixed once fired brass. The scope is an off brand cheapie in 8-32x 44mm objective with parallax adjustment (adequate for the chore at hand). |
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| Picture #1 shows a gut and a headshot. The gut shot was taken at approximately 150 yds and the head shot at 250 yrds. The dog just had his head out of the hole but enough for me to take him. The gut shot threw the dog 3 feet in the air and made him do a summersault. | |
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| Picture 2 shows my 9 yr old son with his trusty BB gun. He made sure any dogs that popped up close to us regretted it (no kills though). | |
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| Picture #5 is of me holding the remains of a dog that fell back into his hole after I took most of his upper body off (picture 6). | |
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| Picture's 9-15 are a panoramic series of shots of the area. You can see the hundreds of PD holes scattered everywhere. | |
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| Picture 16 shows the awesome effect of the V-Max bullets. They literally explode on impact with their ballistic tip design. | |
| The "coup de grace" was the headshot on a pregnant female (shown in picture 6 and picture 17 (second from the left). Fewer varmints to worry about in the future. | |
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