.25 and .30 Cricket shoot (my farthest shot yet, 124 y!!!!!)
Went on an amazing shoot this weekend. Matt and I shot our crickets on this beautiful blood orange orchard and chicken farm. The ground squirrels are so prolific that they started to decimate the egg production and that’s were we came in. I shot my .30 cal cricket off shooting sticks in the seated position, Matt shot from the prone since he had bipods mounted on his .25 cricket. The average distance were from 60-90 yards. The farthest shot I ever made was at 124 YARDS on a squirrel. Unbelievable!!! I shot the squirrel in the seated position with shooting sticks with of course the aid of Matt calling out the dope!!! Wind was swirling around from 10-20 plus mph!!! Matt called out a 3 mil to the left and with ONE shot, the squirrel crumpled and rolled off the boulder!!! Of course we had to hike out and see the results of the shot. But, of course these zombie-squirrels would get up and scurry back into their holes!!!! Just to show how tough these GS were…Matt and I both took separate shots at different GS at almost 15-20 yards chest shots and they would get up and run!!! Here are the pics!!! Thanks again.
our position for the 124 yard shot
the boulder that the GS was sitting on
the view from on top of the boulder to our shooting position
a close up view from on top of the boulder to our shooting position
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Hey Al where my gun go? I don’t remember carrying a blur 😉 😉
😉 Oh I got it TOP SECRET 😉
Was a great day! Couldn’t believe the wind we were having though. Al was making some great shots but the wind was playing tricks on us, we would set up for a shot and the the wind would be only a few mph but we would shoot across a ravine and the wind would be 15-20mph. And then there was the issue with the zombie squirrels, finally towards the end of the day we started double tapping. Al would shoot and I would follow up right after, which at distances out to 90yds was fun.
the “after-the-shot-look”
here’s chairgun and what i used. I used the bottom bar and just held over instead of adjusting my turrets. I am using a nikko stirling night-eater scope with extended mil-dots!!
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Hey Al where my gun go? I don’t remember carrying a blur 😉 😉
😉 Oh I got it TOP SECRET 😉
lol, i didn’t realize that. I was trying out a new app on my phone.