Post your confirmed long PELLET head shots.
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Woodchuck or groundhog, they are supposed to be good to eat. The Fox that took it that night agrees…
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What scope are you using? Looks like it tells you the distance and calculates where you need to hold for the shot. Very nice... seems expensive.
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It’s a pard DS35. Or this might be the new version, the Night Stalker 4K. Not sure which one this was, I’ve got both, but they both have built in laser range finders which work with their built in ballistic calculators to predict a poi for you. They are awesome.
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I'm not fancy enough for a video.
This is a Gopher at 250'.
Gophers are head shots only. I got this one right in the gills at 250' (measured with a walking measure wheel). Gophers are really quick. I watched it pop up and down out of its hole numerous times over several minutes, trying to figure out its pattern of stop and start; then let one fly.
This is from my Western Outpost blind
Gopher at red arrow:
This is from the rodents perspective, looking back at the Western Outpost (dark shadow spot at red arrow):
As found:
Pulled out for inspection:
Beeman Chief 1st gen 1322 PCP .22
UTG MiniSwat 4-16x44 AO side wheel scope on UTG drooper compensating scope mount (I know, I know,... This is what it took to make it work)
Ruger Superpoint Pellet 17grain
from a rustic bench rest shot
This is a Gopher at 250'.
Gophers are head shots only. I got this one right in the gills at 250' (measured with a walking measure wheel). Gophers are really quick. I watched it pop up and down out of its hole numerous times over several minutes, trying to figure out its pattern of stop and start; then let one fly.
This is from my Western Outpost blind
Gopher at red arrow:
This is from the rodents perspective, looking back at the Western Outpost (dark shadow spot at red arrow):
As found:
Pulled out for inspection:
Beeman Chief 1st gen 1322 PCP .22
UTG MiniSwat 4-16x44 AO side wheel scope on UTG drooper compensating scope mount (I know, I know,... This is what it took to make it work)
Ruger Superpoint Pellet 17grain
from a rustic bench rest shot
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This is from my Western Outpost blind, once again. And from back in a day before I caused localized extinction of the Sage Rats (Ground Squirrels)
This is another 250' shot, + added elevation because of "This Branch" that "pushed" it out further than that w/ scope doping.
There is a gap between the hard leaning pine tree to the right (near ground in pic), and, the distant shrub line to the left. Within that shrub line to the left is an arching branch that a Ground Squirrel would climb, and then send out alarm barks to the other Ground Squirrels. The bottom, low point of the picture is a seasonal stream bottom that measured out at 225', the shrub is up the opposite side of the canyon, at 250', but required elevation adjustments on the scope due to the height, and windage due to the wind.
This is the branch that the alarm squirrel would climb, and sit at. It took me a few rounds over a few days to get the shot dialed in, due to the branches elevation, and, the daily wind that blows left to right.
"This Branch" is probably 5' high off the ground. The rodent would sit there, and hug that branch , and send out alarm barks.
WHAP!
Head shot, dropped it from the branch, and lots of brain dead flopping around:
Beeman Chief 1322 1st gen PCP
UTG Mini-SWAT Scope
Ruger SuperPoint 17grain pellet
This is another 250' shot, + added elevation because of "This Branch" that "pushed" it out further than that w/ scope doping.
There is a gap between the hard leaning pine tree to the right (near ground in pic), and, the distant shrub line to the left. Within that shrub line to the left is an arching branch that a Ground Squirrel would climb, and then send out alarm barks to the other Ground Squirrels. The bottom, low point of the picture is a seasonal stream bottom that measured out at 225', the shrub is up the opposite side of the canyon, at 250', but required elevation adjustments on the scope due to the height, and windage due to the wind.
This is the branch that the alarm squirrel would climb, and sit at. It took me a few rounds over a few days to get the shot dialed in, due to the branches elevation, and, the daily wind that blows left to right.
"This Branch" is probably 5' high off the ground. The rodent would sit there, and hug that branch , and send out alarm barks.
WHAP!
Head shot, dropped it from the branch, and lots of brain dead flopping around:
Beeman Chief 1322 1st gen PCP
UTG Mini-SWAT Scope
Ruger SuperPoint 17grain pellet
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Fox squirrel at 175yds with my panthera hunter .25 shooting jsb 34gr at 900fps. I was shooting at the bottom of the white pole at 155 yds and a few minutes later noticed the squirrel wandering around so I gave it a little extra hold over more than the 29 moa I had dialed and I couldn’t believe that I got it. It also taught me that even when plinking to be ready to record. I guess sometimes it is better to be lucky than good!!! 
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Wow, 175y with a pellet
!I think that’s the longest confirmed pellet shot I have heard of, well done
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Thanks but I think I was pretty lucky even though there was zero wind and it would shoot those pellets just under moa at 100 when I could actually hold still. Most of the pcps are better than the shooters when tuned to a very low sd.Wow, 175y with a pellet
I think that’s the longest confirmed pellet shot I have heard of, well done
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