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Old 06-11-2006 | 05:27 PM
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good job!! i need to get my hands on a decint varmint rig one day....but i probably wont for a long time lol....my setup will run me 2k lol....till then i use my deer rifle as well....i dont get much CLOSE shooting...anything within 150 is pretty much dead meat if im shooting upto par....but beyond that ill admit some get lucky...it gets hard to come close with a range estimate on a black dot and heat waves on the fields..plus shadows of tree lines...then factor in wind..and a bullet that drops pretty quick past 150-200yds and i dont think my shootings half bad for some of the ranges i pull off with a gun thats not a tack driver by any means.....im too lazy to keep track...most of the normal days i used to kill 3 or so...my farthest is pushing 400yds...not bad for a 3006 and leupold 3-9x40 vari x 2..the gun doesnt group great at 100 let alone 300+....but for my deer hunting at 50yds or less its fine for now...one time me and my buddy were out watching a field...and one ran like 20yds from its hole...my turn to shoot first...low miss..runs....i rack another in my buddy fires...miss....it couldnt find its hole..we ended up firing like 3rds a piece.....i finally killed him...he ran in a circle and stopped long enough for me to put a hole in him....that field is awesome....noone wants to farm it so the one or 2 times a year its cut its awesome shooting...we killed 20 some out of it in a few days....you just inspiried me to dust off the mauser and head to the fields when they are cut..should be this week!
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