We're getting closer, boys. Most of the bucks around here are getting framed-in, and things are starting to feel like summer.

Dan - I love the paint on the chipper idea. Just watch your damn fingers in those things. We have a work comp client who had a bad episode with an industrial wood chipper.Maybe paint it like a big black horse.



We've had a lot of rain lately, but all of the farmers are finally getting their first cut of hay off, so I went out last night and made a little varmint vapor. I was bringin' the rain.


This guy never had a chance.


The hog above was a 75 yard chipshot - and believe it or not - he crawled about 5 feet and almost got back down the hole before he expired. Pretty amazing, really.



Shot of the year, so far. 400+ yards



If you look across the skyline, you can see the crown of a huge oak peeking over the horizon. That's about where I was set up on the 400 yarder. I was shooting prone, with the gun anchored tight in my backpack - and I turned it loose down through these limbs and busted him right through the shoulders.

Mostly a lucky shot though, b/c I was using hollowpoint 55 grain ammo, which is really wind-sensitive and tends to float a little off-center at long range...

Just 2 confirmed kills. I think I killed another one around 350, but he got back down the hole. See, once I get out to 350+, my gun loses a lot of KE (especially with the low b.c. ammo), and the bullets aren't as devastating - often there's no exit wound. So,if I get a guthit, I get a lot of floppers and crawlers at really long range. Sometimes they get back in the hole. Attractive, eh? LOL You can usually tell by the sound if it's a hit.

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If I had my video camera - I'd have had some awesome footage of a monumental whiff. It was ahair-grazing shot from ridge-to-ridgeat about 600 yards. My hold was about 6 feet high, with a little right-to-left wind drift - and I swear to god, I burned the hair off this sucker's back.

I had my buddy out with me - man it sure is nice to have a spotter.

We hung out until blackout - and I got to glass 6 deer, all doe/fawns and one superscrub that might wind up going about 10 inches once he's all done growing.


June 26 was not a good day to be a groundhog.