Results of Rock Chuck Hunting 60 over a 1.5 day period - Killer B

Every year I look forward to the month of July cause this is the time I hope for a call from Tim for the Rock Chuck Season in Central Oregon, he did not disappoint. Both Tim and I were using our custom AZ .20 caliber MK II Rapids, mine was with a Dave G. stock his with a M. Abernathy. Last year was my first year at it and I think Tim and I came away with about 25 or so this year over a 1.5 day period we came away with around 60 kills most all head shots between 45-70 yards. We walked a lot of property and it would have been to much work to carry them all back for a photo op so we settled for the ones closest to the farm house as we had told the farmer we would gladly remove these carcasses. I spend the day or two before at Tim’s house dialing in my Rapid for the long yardage, and knowing with a cheat sheet of course how many Mil Dots down at say 60 yards, our Rapids didn’t fail us we were popping them left and right at an average distance of 60 yards. With Rock Chucks you can see them running if front of you at about 100+ yards and diving into the Rocks for cover, then you find a spot in the shade at around 50 Yards and wait them out, and they eventually will slowly come out. Tim’s shots were amazing he could reach out to 75 yards no problem and that pellet was like a laser finding it’s spot exactly. We would use our laser range finders to establish the distance and it was all over. We left Vancouver at about 3 am on Tuesday and arrived around 6:30 am at our first hunt, lots of walking and waiting, and as a extra bonus ran into a full family of Cal Ground Squirrels hanging out in a rock pile about 15 in all we shared in the extermination. Finally quit for the day at around 6 PM we were both beat, then off to Motel 6 for some shut eye and new tactics for the following day. Both of us were tired Sun burned and looking forward to a good nights sleep. There were several areas that we had not got to on the first day, so we went to this particular area straight away found a tree at about 50 yards and hunkered down for the wait as we saw at least 6 or so Rock Chucks go in to this particular wall on the walk up. Sure enough we pulled at least 9 from this area in a matter of a hour or so. It’s always funny as you approach the spot as the Chuck will sound a chirping noise to alert the pother Chucks of the danger, they got that right. Temperature was sunny and in the upper 80’s and now it’s time to relax and think about next year, and the tactics we will use then to maxi mix our take for the day. Once again a big thanks to Tim I for allowing me the opportunity to tag along to his Hunting spots, and for letting me come by and fine tune my distance shooting at his property. Looking forward to next year already but 1 day will be just fine………LOL