THURSDAY 3-10-2011 I wandered up to Beryl to see if the chizzlers were out of the snow yet. It was a reasonable day weather wise, about 60º in the afternoon and no wind. Bounty Hunter 6 was driving and we saw one or two of the little vermin on the side of the road while driving past Enterprise.
Bounty Hunter 6 was really disenchanted because he had only brought a .22 rifle in the back of his truck and no squirrel-o-matic. I had brought my heavy barrel .223 with 100 rounds of ammo. and a .22 pistol for the "sappers" that might try to get under the truck as we surveyed the fields. After visiting our pals, the squirrel farmers, we set up on a road leading through a hay field that hadn't showed green or started to grow this early in the year. There were chizzlers everywhere. I even got some with my .22 pistol. I fired about 50 rounds of .223 ammo. at chizzlers at 125 - 250 yards and connected about 75% if the time. Bounty Hunter 6 fired about 200 rounds of .22 ammo. at chizzlers between 10 and 125 yards and connected about the same percentage. In two hours of shooting and loading and shooting as fast as we could we did our best to clear the field of varmints. I don't think we impacted the quantity of chizzlers much. The ravens, crows and a few eagles were glad for the buffet we served though. The wind finally came up and Bounty Hunter 6's thumbs were sore from loading his 10-22 magazines so we came home. On the way home we were already making plans to come back next week to hunt.
I haven't hunted anything except paper targets, 2 liter soda bottles with water in them, and clay pigeons all winter and am so glad to have the varmints out. One farmer we talked to had just been spraying weeds in his fields and he commented he wished there were a "chizzler spray", I am so glad there isn't and I can do my best to do my duty to preserve agriculture with a firearm. Ya-Hoo!! for varmint hunting.
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