All I can say is holy crap. Talk about an adrenaline rush! Earlier this year Penny and I walked right up on a raccoon, I was able to dispatch it with a 17 caliber springer. I thought that was the highlight of the summer, as far as excitement goes.
Today we are out for our evening walk. There are chipmunks chirping everywhere. I need to thin them out quick. I make my long offhand shot of the summer, 47 yards lasered. So I go back to get my phone take a picture etc., and resume our walk.
We drop another chipmunk after walking 100 feet. We MoveOn. All of a sudden I hear snarling. And Penny is Darting full speed at something. I thought it was another chipmunk. Not quite.
It’s amazing how you will react when something you love is under attack. Penny had a good hold of its shoulder, And it was trying to bite her. Big teeth. I know because I was 2 feet from them, screaming my head off, trying to get Penny to let go.
I actually kicked Penny to get her to listen. not hard more of a push. And at the same time I was pushing on the wood Chuck with my butt stock. But they were connected….Finally Penny let go. All of a sudden I realized the damn thing could come at me. I’m right there 3 feet from it. And my single shot 20 caliber prehistoric PCP is not even loaded let alone cocked. Talk about a holy crap moment!
It tries to get away in the brush and I’m having none of it. I ran in front of it to cut it off yelling while Penny was barking on it like crazy from behind. It’s shoulder was all messed up from my brave dogs work.
Somehow with all this was going on I reloaded. I pointed the gun at it from 2 feet, and missed. It moved right when I pulled the trigger. And I was trying not to hit penny at the same time. I only had one pallet left in my shirt pocket, I couldn’t get it out. Try to find 1 20 caliber pellet in your shirt pocket while this is going on and get it in your fingers and get it loaded in your single shot Rifle. Oh my God. Penny is barking like a maniac. I am yelling at her to stay away but keeping her around close enough to keep it from running away. I finally get it loaded, and I don’t have any more pellets, so I’m trying to stick the barrel right next to its head while keeping Penny at bay. It keeps trying to lunge at me and bite the end of the barrel. I got lucky and give it a nice heart
shot.
My voice is still hoarse from screaming. I got a tel ya, that was a freaking adventure. Not one I need to live through again.
Right at the very beginning I thought it was a badger, the funny thing is, as my heart sank I was moving forward towards Penny.
then they flipped over and I saw it was a woodchuck, I was relieved.
I wanted so badly to just grab it with my hands like a football and throw it.
And this is why I always go heeled when we go for a walk.
Holy cow
Mike
Today we are out for our evening walk. There are chipmunks chirping everywhere. I need to thin them out quick. I make my long offhand shot of the summer, 47 yards lasered. So I go back to get my phone take a picture etc., and resume our walk.
We drop another chipmunk after walking 100 feet. We MoveOn. All of a sudden I hear snarling. And Penny is Darting full speed at something. I thought it was another chipmunk. Not quite.
It’s amazing how you will react when something you love is under attack. Penny had a good hold of its shoulder, And it was trying to bite her. Big teeth. I know because I was 2 feet from them, screaming my head off, trying to get Penny to let go.
I actually kicked Penny to get her to listen. not hard more of a push. And at the same time I was pushing on the wood Chuck with my butt stock. But they were connected….Finally Penny let go. All of a sudden I realized the damn thing could come at me. I’m right there 3 feet from it. And my single shot 20 caliber prehistoric PCP is not even loaded let alone cocked. Talk about a holy crap moment!
It tries to get away in the brush and I’m having none of it. I ran in front of it to cut it off yelling while Penny was barking on it like crazy from behind. It’s shoulder was all messed up from my brave dogs work.
Somehow with all this was going on I reloaded. I pointed the gun at it from 2 feet, and missed. It moved right when I pulled the trigger. And I was trying not to hit penny at the same time. I only had one pallet left in my shirt pocket, I couldn’t get it out. Try to find 1 20 caliber pellet in your shirt pocket while this is going on and get it in your fingers and get it loaded in your single shot Rifle. Oh my God. Penny is barking like a maniac. I am yelling at her to stay away but keeping her around close enough to keep it from running away. I finally get it loaded, and I don’t have any more pellets, so I’m trying to stick the barrel right next to its head while keeping Penny at bay. It keeps trying to lunge at me and bite the end of the barrel. I got lucky and give it a nice heart
shot. My voice is still hoarse from screaming. I got a tel ya, that was a freaking adventure. Not one I need to live through again.
Right at the very beginning I thought it was a badger, the funny thing is, as my heart sank I was moving forward towards Penny.
then they flipped over and I saw it was a woodchuck, I was relieved.
I wanted so badly to just grab it with my hands like a football and throw it.
And this is why I always go heeled when we go for a walk.
Holy cow
Mike
