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The squirrels at Rudy’s were OK, but I didn’t have anything to rest my rifle on to make a decent shot. Most guys that you go hunting with will let you lay your rifle on a coat or something and shoot over the hood of the truck; not Rich. Oh, no. His truck is too precious and shiny. My coat might cause one of the dust particles to remove a molecule of clear coat, thereby letting in evil rays of sun or ozone or air or whatever….

So, I laid on the ground. That sucked! You see, the problem is that I don’t actually have a neck. My head is just sort of glued directly to my shoulders, so I don’t have enough rotation to actually look through a scope when laying on the ground. I think if I got a lawyer, I might be able to get a handycapped shooters tag or something; it’s that bad. (more…)

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Have you ever been on one of those trips that starts out promising, but then goes down the crapper in about 40 minutes flat? Well, my ground squirrel hunting expedition to Burns, Oregon and then on south to the farming area around Crane, Oregon was just like that.

My brother-in-law Rich and I left Walla Walla, Washington last Friday night at 7:30 to drive the 5 hours to burns, Oregon to shoot some squirrels on Saturday. Rich had been calling around all day trying to find some 40 grain ballistic tips for his new .204 while I had been all over town trying to find something with 62 grains or heavier for my Bushmaster .223.

To make a long and miserable story short, we couldn’t find shit. I even went to Wal-Mart twice and stared at the boxes of Remington 55 grain jacketed hollow points on Friday, but talked myself out of them, since I figured the boys at Wal-Mart in Pendleton would have something better. Wrong!

When we got to Pendleton, Oregon, they didn’t have anything for the .204, and only a couple of boxes of .223, at like $20.00 per box of 20; ain’t no way I’m paying a buck a shot unless it’s at something bigger than a Coyote. So, we just loaded up on jerky and Red Bulls and headed for Burns. (more…)

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The Unity, Oregon Squirrel shoot will be held on the weekend of April 28-29, 2007. This is an annual event where a bunch of guys in trucks, with guns, enter as shooting teams, draw a field to shoot squirrels in and then spend the rest of the day popping sage rats (ground squirrels) with their Ruger 1022’s. And man it’s fun! (more…)

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