Ground Hog Video

[Eddystone30_06]

I was wanting to make a hunting video and figured I would try for one of the seemingly hundreds of ground hogs around here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DiLQ1KHOSw

There wasn't much to the hunt, I went to an area that I knew I could see a great deal of that field spotted a ground hog watching me, set-up my camera then shot it. I guessed the distance to be 170 yards and when I walked it off it came out to be just 5 yards short of my estimate.

I was using an iron sighted 8" barreled S&W 686 357 Magnum with Federal 38 special +P jacketed hollow points. I've shot that pistol from 30 to 250 yards and am accustomed to sighting it at those ranges.