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Michael P Ollard
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Fox (Squirrel) in the Henhouse
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April 27, 2017, 09:05:52 PM »
The front fence of my chicken yard is 35 yards from my porch, and the fox squirrels have been chewing bins and stealing feed in the chicken barn, so I have sighted in my .25 MRod for 40 yards with the 27.9 grain Benjamin Domed pellets. My lovely Lab(/Boxer?), Nellie, is a good enough alert that I haven't yet gone to Harbor Freight for a dinger, though she doesn't differentiate her alert for a rabbit from a squirrel yet--heck, she barks when anyone rings the doorbell, not just strangers.
Anyway, today I got home from work, sat down, watched Matt Carpenter hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 11th, and Nellie starts whimpering about something outside, and sure enough, there's a twitchy tail just shaking away out there, poking around, looking for something to chew.
So I grab my trusty MRod, remove the trigger lock, load a magazine, pop the bipod legs, quietly open the screen door, and lie down on the porch in my dress pants and dress shirt. I find the little tree rat in my scope, breathe out gently, and--pfffftp!--knock Twitchy McChickenfeedthief right off the ledge. A nice clean shot right through his skull. The shot placement is a little higher than I prefer, but the impact of 46fpe completed what my aim almost didn't accomplish.
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April 27, 2017, 10:06:00 PM »
Great shooting!!
California is over run by these pests.
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April 28, 2017, 02:41:26 AM »
Nice shot Michael.
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Re: Fox (Squirrel) in the Henhouse
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April 28, 2017, 03:26:59 AM »
On your dress pants and shirt?
That squirrel sure picked the wrong hen-house to raid..
great shooting!
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Great shooting and pics
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April 30, 2017, 02:18:13 PM »
Thanks for the compliments, fellas! Looking forward to some pesting at a friend's place in the next few weeks.
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