wonderful video and great wind reading on holdovers , hand picked shots but still nice quick judgment calls .
Uhhhhhh, aren't those ground squirrels or prairie dogs, can't quite tell. But nice shooting.
People in MT are a little different. They call ground squirrels gophers. When I first moved to MT people would ask if I wanted to go shoot gophers. I thought they were crazy until I found out it was ground squirrels not gophers. I was picturing people standing in a field all day waiting for a pocket gopher to back fill a hole and give them a quick chance at a shot.
Now it makes sense, people in Montana don't have a clue what a gopher is, must be that miles and miles and miles of,.........that makes them different.
Thanks man! I put a lot of effort into this video editing, nice to hear that it paid off! I am shooting .30 cal on this one with hades ammo.
Yeah I had to go on hand picked shots due to lack of continuous footage unfortunately. Those winds are wicked here man and when your shooting pellets it is very intresting to go hunting.
I am using eaglevision goPro mount with goPro 7 and a special lens on the goPro. It was a pain in the ass to setup and get aligned, but footage is pretty good on it with the minimum amount of budget. Its not like I am rocking NBC news money here, so I have to be very frugal.
To say the least!Its pure explosive power
I can offer graphic evidence what a 17gr .177 at 2650fps Hornaday does to them. A lesson in squirrel anatomy.
When I first moved up to kalispell area and heard them talking about gophers, I thought the same thing
the species is a Richardsons ground squirrel, to anyone wondering they are not a prarie dog or any version of a "squeak" or "whistlepig" like the ones just west in Idaho. Ton of fun walking the woods popping them, just gotta remember your in grizz country at the same time
