The farmer has called me 3 days ago about coyote activity at his new burial pit that he constructed at the back of the property. So I showed up to look at the new pit and setup my trail cam on the concrete barrier.
I returned this late afternoon and found out my trail cam had failed to record with zero footage on the memory card. Of course the dead cow was dug up and eaten over the past three nights. I had no clue why the unit has failed but after spending some time resetting it, I was able to get it to record again. Hopefully it will capture something tonight.
I brought my blind and set it up 60 yards away. I then proceeded to do some test shots inside the blind using my tripod that I used in the past where I mounted the Impact on top. I used a low folding chair so that I could stay as long to the ground as possible. I told a few shots at the three potatoes that I placed on the mount. I hit and I missed. I thought maybe it was the strong head wind coming my way. But I continued to miss the potato which my Impact should not have missed that many shots. I have zeroed it two days ago and everything was working just fine.
I took out my shooting box with some bulleyes on the paper and proceeded to check my zero. To my horror, the POI was all over the paper. I couldn't even hold a decent 5 shots group. Some shots were low, left, right and high. I was puzzled and in disbelief. Maybe the head wind was pushing my slugs hard or the warmer temperature had increased the slugs velocity again.
Back in February, the H&N 25gr gen 2 slugs were averaging 966fps and 5 days ago, it was up to 984 fps which I had re-zero and created a new range tape to compensate for the increased velocity.
But today, something was not working and causing erratic groupings. So I decided to not doing the coyote hunt this evening and came home to check my Impact and cleaned the barrel. The barrel was dirty and I hope that was the case. I will need to return to the farm tomorrow to re-check my zero and chrony to see what is the current speed. Then hopefully I can make some minor adjustment to the valve to tighten the group. Maybe it was the new tin of slugs? No idea at the moment.
Fingers crossed that the trail cam will function and record something tonight. And me sorting out my Impact to shoot well again. Ya, bad timing...
In addition, the farmer had told me his neighbour has seen a large cougar in their farm area. Maybe this cougar also found this pit?
I returned this late afternoon and found out my trail cam had failed to record with zero footage on the memory card. Of course the dead cow was dug up and eaten over the past three nights. I had no clue why the unit has failed but after spending some time resetting it, I was able to get it to record again. Hopefully it will capture something tonight.
I brought my blind and set it up 60 yards away. I then proceeded to do some test shots inside the blind using my tripod that I used in the past where I mounted the Impact on top. I used a low folding chair so that I could stay as long to the ground as possible. I told a few shots at the three potatoes that I placed on the mount. I hit and I missed. I thought maybe it was the strong head wind coming my way. But I continued to miss the potato which my Impact should not have missed that many shots. I have zeroed it two days ago and everything was working just fine.
I took out my shooting box with some bulleyes on the paper and proceeded to check my zero. To my horror, the POI was all over the paper. I couldn't even hold a decent 5 shots group. Some shots were low, left, right and high. I was puzzled and in disbelief. Maybe the head wind was pushing my slugs hard or the warmer temperature had increased the slugs velocity again.
Back in February, the H&N 25gr gen 2 slugs were averaging 966fps and 5 days ago, it was up to 984 fps which I had re-zero and created a new range tape to compensate for the increased velocity.
But today, something was not working and causing erratic groupings. So I decided to not doing the coyote hunt this evening and came home to check my Impact and cleaned the barrel. The barrel was dirty and I hope that was the case. I will need to return to the farm tomorrow to re-check my zero and chrony to see what is the current speed. Then hopefully I can make some minor adjustment to the valve to tighten the group. Maybe it was the new tin of slugs? No idea at the moment.
Fingers crossed that the trail cam will function and record something tonight. And me sorting out my Impact to shoot well again. Ya, bad timing...
In addition, the farmer had told me his neighbour has seen a large cougar in their farm area. Maybe this cougar also found this pit?
