Am I Saving Ammo -- Really?

 No posting going on for lonesome me.  

The chizzler crop was a bust again this year.  I think I harvested about 200 chizzlers total in several trips to Iron County, Utah.  A few years ago I could harvest half that many an hour during the peak of shooting times.  My 9 year old grandson came to visit from Texas so Bounty Hunter 6 and I took him to shoot chizzlers one day.  He couldn't see them at first,they are cammoed little vermin. Then he couldn't hit them, they are quick moving little rascals.  After about an hour mounted on the squirrel-o-matic in the back of a pickup truck he started to mow them down whenever they came to the surface.  I just laughed and laughed as he turned into a natural born chizzler reaper.  We were shooting .22LR but he could still flip them up in the air on the shot.  He called last Sunday and asked if I had been shooting of late.  What a nice kid!

I drew no tags for bear, pronghorn, deer, or elk.  I stood in line to buy a spike elk tag and got lucky.  I have a tag; and therefore a hunt to look forward to.  5 days in the Book Cliffs with both of my sons is a good hunt even if we only see female sasquaches.  

I have been thinking about going to Namibia in March 2022.  I wonder if the Covid Plague will allow it?  I could use some fun days in the veld watching for oryx, springbok, red hartebeest, warthogs, and baboons.

I have been reloading ammo all summer.  It is so dang hot in my area I just go into the basement and reload rounds I will never live long enough to shoot.  Oh well, it is better than hanging out at the pool hall or gambling in Mesquite, NV.  Who knows maybe the Liberals in Congress and the White House will stop the ammo supply and I will be "PREPARED" for Armageddon?

I hope to have a photo to post of a spike elk taken by me or my son in mid-October.  At least one animal for the freezer ? ? ?  {I truly like elk meat.  I don't buy beef at all, just elk for me}

SLOW is the word, no ACTION

 I have not been out after chizzlers for over a month.  The last time Bounty Hunter 6 and I went hunting for chizzlers we ended up taking only about 60 total between us in two and one half hours of serious effort.

THERE ARE JUST NOT MANY OUT THERE.  There are no babies, and the ones eventually taken were extra wary.  Proud to say there were a lot of head shots dealt out as the vermin were in their holes just looking at us in the back of the truck glassing seated on our Squirrel-O-Matics. 70 to 100 yard shots with a 17 HMR on a chizzler head ( approx 1" diameter) is a pretty good shot.

This year, 2021, will make 3 years without good chizzler hunting.  What is happening?  Why are they so rare?  I guess with the concentrated effort for many years we have managed to reduce the numbers of varmints to a LOW, LOW, LOW level.  Perhaps it is a disease among them?  Maybe the space chizzlers have come back to pick up the colonists?

 

I drew no tags for big game hunting in Utah in 2021 and therefore maybe am going to take up knitting or something to fill my time.  {All my brass is pretty much full, or I would make "cookies"}

SORRY GUYS, I SHOT THE LAST ONE

 Bounty Hunter 6 and I went to Beryl to check out the chizzler situation on Monday 3-8-2020.  Sorry to say when we got to a usual spot we only saw one chizzler.  He was suffering from the cold and wind and really almost immobile.  I took careful aim and let him have a .22 LR in the mid-ships at about 45 yards.  It was over before it started.

We talked to a farmer out spraying weeds and he told us about another area that might have more varmints in it.  We drove over to the new spot a mile or so away and even though it was 40 degrees and the wind was blowing about 10 MPH we braved the elements and sent about 60 crop eating animals to the alfalfa field in the sky !!!

LOOKING FORWARD

 

 I have had two years of NO CHIZZLERS.  Crap-O-Rama, to say the least.

 I am so unhappy with Mother Nature and her vermin plagues and the resulting lack of targets in Iron County, Utah.  I am hoping to watch the snow melt in March and go to the former glory fields of friendly farmers and start up the wholesale destruction of vermin infesting the alfalfa fields.  What is a guy to do?  I have the itch.  My friends have the itch.  We are genuinely suffering from lack of hunting.

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