This guy (well actually she was a she as it turned out) was *way* out in a field but I had confidence in the rifle as I've shot long with it before. Molly the dog and I were both there at the historical society's range as I was working on another gun sighting it in, dialing in a tune for .22 MRD's. I had "the chuckie killer" .25 RTI with me though - just in case. ;-) We were about to wrap it up for the day when I spotted what I thought was a chuckie out in the field. I climbed up onto the top of a picnic table to get a better view ( grass being 6 or so inches tall ) hoping to get a reasonably accurate range. Sure enough I could see through my rangefinder that it was indeed a woodchuck. " . . . aiy - 166 - 170 yards . . ." is what the rangefinder kept bouncing back & forth on . . . it's sometimes hard to get a hard number when ranging across a field at distance. I went for the middle (168) and keyed that into strelok and dialed it up. I found the chuck in my scope and then . . . watched / tracked. It was moving *away* from me which was a bit of a bummer - I didn't want to come off the scope for fear of not being able to spot it again so I just decided that I'd hold just a ~little~ high if I (we - me and Molly) could get it to stand up. ( lol ) I was whistling it, squeaking it, Molly - aware that something is up - she's getting all excited and is starting to bark some and --- . . . chuckie stands up. ( to see what the noise / ruckus was? ) I sent it. Booyah!!
This makes for my longest chuckie to date. Previous long was 154 yards with my Taipan Long (.22 w/jsb ko slugs) from 3 or 4 years ago. The "chuckie killer" is an RTI P1 performance with a fixed 175 bar reg on it and the newer RPB barrell. 32g Patriot Javelin slugs.
This makes for my longest chuckie to date. Previous long was 154 yards with my Taipan Long (.22 w/jsb ko slugs) from 3 or 4 years ago. The "chuckie killer" is an RTI P1 performance with a fixed 175 bar reg on it and the newer RPB barrell. 32g Patriot Javelin slugs.
