Post by huckleberry on Dec 12, 2013 16:24:28 GMT -5
Dorothy wants me to tell ya'll about them.....LOL
We were at the farm taking care of the chicks and other stuff. I was waiting for my sis to get home as we were to go over to her place and pick up a trailer and jack I had left there.
While waiting Dorothy asked me to go to the truck and get some stuff for her. As I did I looked out in the corn field and there stood a yote.
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I ran in the office area, grabbed the 22-250 and three shells. Loaded her up and headed to the shop which is about 80 yds to the east. I eased around the shop and spotted the yote at about 300 yds. I let the 250 bark and turned that ole dog upside down. LOL
He did jump up and run though. I shot at him again missing just over the top of him. he ran about 200yds and piled up. Thank Goodness!!
I headed out to get him and had walked about 100 yds or so when movement caught my eye way out in the field. Sure enough, there was another yote walking east to west. Problem was he was every bit of 750 -800 yds.
I haven't shot that distance in priobably 30 years. In fact I seldom shoot anything over 100 yds anymore. And, this was my sons rifle, not mine. The two shots I had just fired are the only two shots I have ever fired from that gun....LOL I owned a 250 for years and knew how well they do shoot though. Sooooo, I figured the wind, cranked the scope to 12, held one BDC over the yotes head and squeezed one off.
I looked and didn't see anything. I was thinkin where did he go when I saw something moving. I put the scope back on it and to my surprise, there he was, in his death flop.
A lady at the house I was behind came out and hollered that she couldn't believe I had killed that yote. I laughed and told her I couldn't believe it either.....LOL
Yeah, mostly luck, but I did recall how my old 250 shot, and felt comfortable in my knowledge of that caliber rifle. Could I do it again? Maybe, maybe not.....lol But I wouldn't wanna be the next yote that comes out at that distance.
We were at the farm taking care of the chicks and other stuff. I was waiting for my sis to get home as we were to go over to her place and pick up a trailer and jack I had left there.
While waiting Dorothy asked me to go to the truck and get some stuff for her. As I did I looked out in the corn field and there stood a yote.
,
I ran in the office area, grabbed the 22-250 and three shells. Loaded her up and headed to the shop which is about 80 yds to the east. I eased around the shop and spotted the yote at about 300 yds. I let the 250 bark and turned that ole dog upside down. LOL
He did jump up and run though. I shot at him again missing just over the top of him. he ran about 200yds and piled up. Thank Goodness!!
I headed out to get him and had walked about 100 yds or so when movement caught my eye way out in the field. Sure enough, there was another yote walking east to west. Problem was he was every bit of 750 -800 yds.
I haven't shot that distance in priobably 30 years. In fact I seldom shoot anything over 100 yds anymore. And, this was my sons rifle, not mine. The two shots I had just fired are the only two shots I have ever fired from that gun....LOL I owned a 250 for years and knew how well they do shoot though. Sooooo, I figured the wind, cranked the scope to 12, held one BDC over the yotes head and squeezed one off.
I looked and didn't see anything. I was thinkin where did he go when I saw something moving. I put the scope back on it and to my surprise, there he was, in his death flop.
A lady at the house I was behind came out and hollered that she couldn't believe I had killed that yote. I laughed and told her I couldn't believe it either.....LOL
Yeah, mostly luck, but I did recall how my old 250 shot, and felt comfortable in my knowledge of that caliber rifle. Could I do it again? Maybe, maybe not.....lol But I wouldn't wanna be the next yote that comes out at that distance.