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« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2010, 10:14:24 AM » |
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Land Rover, over here we call them gophers and in some areas in Alberta and Saskatchewan they are a plague. They dig up farmer's fields and resemble a moon scape. Their proper name is a Richardson Ground Squirrel. 200 acre fields can be so polluted with them, you can shoot for hours and come back week after week and not put a dent in the population! They are great target practice as you vary your shooting from 10 y to 150 y (or meters) shot after shot.
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« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2010, 04:05:58 PM » |
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Hey Shooter
How many would you see when shooting them 1-10, 0-50, 50-100, 100+, 200+.
Just curious to get a mental picture of the little critters in a paddock.
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« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2010, 04:17:00 PM » |
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under 100 meters, you can spot them as they generally stand tall out of their burrows and whistle. A gopher whistle helps keep them looking...we were in a large field in Saskatchewan and had gophers from 10 feet to 300 meters...the 150+ shots you need good optics since they move around..I am sure we busted through 500 rounds each easily in the afternoon from the 22lr up to the 223/22-250/221 fireball/17 fireballs etc....
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« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2010, 10:39:26 PM » |
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55 - What did you do with all the bodies? It seem like there would be a big mess?
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TERRORIST -- Kill them all and let GOD sort it out!!
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« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2010, 07:57:41 PM » |
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good question.
Once you have the shot the fields once or twice, coyotes, fox, birds of prey, ravens and crows will gather as you start shooting...we shot a field once and must have shot 500-600 rds and many many gophers...we returned the next day for some shooting and the field was black with crows....having a free lunch
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« Reply #35 on: August 01, 2010, 03:28:35 AM » |
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Do you shoot the Crows? Someone once told me the crows are bloody hard to shoot as they seem to know what you are up to and keep just far enough away. (much like the magpies over here)
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« Reply #36 on: August 01, 2010, 09:10:26 AM » |
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generally it is frowned upon to shoot the scavenger birds, such as crows, ravens and seagulls. So not really, unless they are bothering me...
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« Reply #37 on: August 01, 2010, 01:59:17 PM » |
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We kill them over here every oppertunity we get,especially grey crows and magpies as they are the most destructive bir's on the planet.  |
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