LONG DISTANCE CONNECTION

Bounty Hunter 6 and I went to Iron County, Utah to reduce the chizzler population on 3-19-2018. We arrived in a field of endevour at 11 a.m.ish. It had been cold and wet for several days and we were forced to stay on established roads or farming paths to not chew-up the fields with 4X4 tire tracks.

The chizzlers, although huge in size, were not out scurrying around. They were under ground sleeping and resting and reading The Chizzler Gazette over tiny expressos.

Bounty Hunter 6 and I did harvest maybe 75 big boys each in 3 hours of shooting. It was a fun trip. It is quite satisfying to nail an old herd bull at over 100 yards with a .22LR round. Not much wind but really cold today. Glad I had on multiple layers of clothing.

112 yards out 1 shot .22 LR

DID OUR DUTY

Saturday, 3-9-2018, J.L. and I went to Iron County to help the farmers by shooting a few hundred profit eating -- hay field infesting vermin.  We arrived on a dormant half circular irrigated alfalfa field at 10:20 a.m.  We set up the squirrel-o-matic and a card table in the back of my pickup about 125 yards into the yet to sprout out green alfalfa field.

The carnage began almost immediately. We acquired targets with the scope sighted 22LR Savage rifles, pressed ever so gently on the trigger until a round discharged. The intended target, usually a big old male chizzler, would then pop up in the air, or roll over several times, or do the break-dance of death.  YES, sometimes we would miss and the chizzler would look around through his near sighted eyes and wonder what that noise and dust kick up was?  Over all I think we connected with our intended targets around 65% of the time or maybe more.

We shot a combined 730 rounds of ammunition.  Small idle talk among shooters was at a minimum. We did utter the maniacal laugh often heard from chizzler reapers as the result of an excellent shot from time to time during our spree of dealing out death.  We were anxiously engaged in a good cause.  My phone alarm went off at 1 p.m. and we rolled up equipment headed back to civilization. I had obligations in the afternoon to take care of.

Great conversations with J.L. and a fun day hunting chizzlers. 

QUICK UPDATE

Went with Bounty Hunter 6 and two of his pals from the Mid-west to reap a few chizzlers on Friday 3-8-2018.   We had very comfortable weather -- 60 degrees and little or no wind. Everything combined into a great outing.

We shot for about 3.5 hours. I went through 400 + rounds of .22LR ammo. BH 6 about the same quantity.  It was more or less constant shooting for the entire time. Only pause in firing was when we had to reload magazines.  I hit around 50% of the time. BH 6 out shot me with maybe 70% success for rounds fired.

Really fun day. Good conversation on journey up and back. All in all a day to remember.

COLD, SLIGHT BREEZES, LOTS OF BIG CHIZZLERS ! ! !

Bounty Hunter 6 and I went to Iron County to harvest vermin from the farmers fields as a public/community service effort.  We drove up at 10:00 a.m. and the weather seemed foreboding.  We continued on even thought the temperature outside was 28 degrees and there was a 10 mph wind blowing.  We both had worn various layers of clothing to fight the cold. Long johns and under armor to the rescue.

We started shooting off the squirrel-o-matics at 11:30 a.m. or so.  We shot .22LR and 17 HMR rounds at the foe from 30 to 130 yards for about 2 1/2 hours.  We did our duty with gusto. All-in-all maybe 500 profit stealers were taken out of the mix.

We drove home congratulating ourselves for braving the cold and shooting so successfully even given the cold weather.  This is what I have been waiting for -- REAPING CHIZZLERS.