YES! Chizzler season is open and in full run. The alfalfa is not yet two inches high and the little profit stealers are eating like they haven't been fed for five or six months. Guess what -- they
haven't been fed for five or six months and they are
starving. As soon as they eat some hay they are going to start the good old mating ritual. They will run around and fight with each other, lucha libre style, and move like drops of water on a hot skillet. It will be an adventure trying to shoot doubles. It is done. I have done it in past years. Bounty Hunter 6 did a double today. I can hardly wait.
Basically the history is as follows: I went out with Bounty Hunter 6 (B H 6) and we did a pretty good job mowing down the
Early Guard of chizzlers that had emerged from their burrows on February 22, 2017. We nailed about 250 - 300 vermin.
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| Early Guard |
Mr. Bob came to hunt as soon as he knew the chizzlers were out. He brought his super fine chizzler reaping trailer. We went out in two different fields and shot dozens of chizzlers for a few days. His trailer and his laugh make it all worth while.
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| Mr. Bob at his best. |
I took my pal, co-worker, good friend, and soon to be master chizzler hunter J L to hunt on March
13, 2017. {Remember J L's introduction on the blog post of 6-3-2015} Between 9:05 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. we managed to take about
350 - 400 profit robbers out of the equation. That is fast shooting. Think about it -- say 400 hits and maybe 200 misses (pretty good percentage, 67%). That is 600+ rounds fired. Given both of us use Savage bolt action guns with the largest magazine of 10 rounds that makes for 60 magazine loadings. 600 rounds fired in 3 1/2 hours or 210 minutes. 600/210 = 2.86 rounds per minute. That is pretty dang fast and fun. Targets as quick as you can obtain sight picture, concentrate on trigger control, breathing, and
splatting.
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| J L having a heck of a time! |
I went at the behest of B H 6 again this morning. I did my best, to do my duty, to increase the profits of the farmers in Iron County, Utah. I think B H 6, his pal Dr. Phil. (really a doctor), and I were able to end the economic slide for a week or so on a certain field. Just one end, of one circular, in one field. WE have so much more work to do. I also, unfortunately, have another job that requires me to work. I know we should continue to strike while the Iron (County) is hot, and mow down chizzlers but alas I must earn some money to pay the bills. I can not go shoot chizzlers everyday . . . . yet.
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| S&W .22 handgun for sappers within 10 yards |
See up there fellow chizzler hunters!
