9 confirmed sniper kills in less than 30 minutes!

Dave Parks

Dave Parks

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Plus 4 MIA's that crawled into berry bushes.

The winter wheat food plot has drawn some un-wanted guests...Ground Squirrels! So, I decided to spend some quality time with them & my .17 this morning. A lot more went into their holes than I shot. so I will be waging war with them again like I did last summer.....LOVE this Savage Model 93 heavy barrel .17 it really does well on them.
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I got between thier burrows and the edge of the wheat field. Sitting quietly on the ATV in the shade, I waited for them to come out of the wheat field and head for their burrows. I'd shoot one and in a few seconds anothor one would come over to check out his buddy.......and BANG!
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Dave
 
and you got the aquatic weed growth underr control.....

I checked and that was "long leaf water lilly" that you had in the pond....

Any of the little Woodies escape the Bass?

Steve
 
Good one Dave, sounds like a blast.

Didn't I read somewhere that when you pose an animal for pictures you should shove the guts back in, wipe the blood off their little faces and make them smile!! Of course if you made head shots you wouldn't have to worry about any of that.
 
Those things any good to eat? Do you chuck them in the pond for the bullheads and turtles to chomp on? You hitting them freehand or do you have a rest built on to your 4 wheeler?
 
Good shooting Dave.Wish I could be there to help with my Ruger .17.BTW,what are thoes funny things on the oars?
Still smiling from yesterday,Joe
 
O.K. on the Long Leaf Water Lilly, I'll remember that, thanks. You can see it in the first photo (upper left) floating on the surface. It's a nice looking water plant.

Today I was talking to the guy who dug the lower pond for me and he said showed me how to keep those other damn water weeds in check without using the $150 a gallon herbicide that I have been using. You get a 4' piece of heavy wall water pipe that is 3-4" in diameter, you drill some 1/2" holes in it along it's length and insert steel rebar through the holes so that there is about 6" of rebar sticking out on all four sides, weld the renar to the pipe to hold it in place and then weld two eye hooks opposire each other on two sides at the ends so 4 sets of rope can be attached. The ropes have to be long enough so that two people can drag the device back and forth across the pond. The pipe is drug along the bottom and the rebar TEETH tear the plnts roots out as it is drug along. The plant gets tangled in the rebar and is romoved as well. He said he uses this method every Spring when thos things start to head for the surface and before they spread all over the pond. He said he never nees to use herbicide.

I have been able to keep the Long Leaf Water Lilly's in check, but not that other stuff.

3 of the five woodie made it down to the lower pond with their mom. I saw one of them get taken by a bass in the upper pond, don't know what happened to the other one. This morning at sun-up there was a hen Rio at the house pond with 4 young that were no more than 5" tall....Late nester, huh?

The crazy thing is a pair of Barn Swallows that built a nest in the ceiling of the breezeway between the house and garage. There were 4 young in the nest and they started pushing each other out of the nest. Three mornings in a row I found a dead swallow on the cement below the nest. The last bird got all the food and grew up fast. I saw him sitting on the rain gutter with his folks. Two days later I knocked the nest down with a broom handle. Teh next day they started building another nest a foot from where the first one was. I just can't imagine them building another nest this late in July?

Dave
 
Thanks, ot's always fun taking out GS's around here. Uears ago I used to hunt a ranch that had hundreds of them and the owner would by all the .22 ammo I wanted, two bricks a day was normal for me.

As for the photo's guts is guts and they are just lucky I'm not doing video hunts.....I have a tendency to lick my fingers to get the blood off, haha!

Do you still have that Ruger .22-250 HB Varminter you won? Let me know if you ever want to part with it?

Dave
 
No good eating, I leave them right where they are on the boat each time. By morning they are always gone, between the coyotes, grey fox, bobcats and bears there is never a trace of them by the next morning.

I guess I should set-up the trail cam a few times just to see who all eats them?

I just sit on the ATV and do 90% of the shooting offhand with my left arm through the sling. If they are all coming from just one direction I will sometimes get off the ATV and kneel using the seat as a rifle rest. Today they were coming from 3 directions so I just sat on the ATV and took the shots as they came. If they continue feeding in the wheat plot, I may pull the camo (boat trailer) duck blind I built, out of the barn and set it up facing the wheat. Then I would have a comfortable chair and a rifle rest! It's about time to set it up by the ponmd for the early honker season anyway.

BTW The heavy equipment is showing up at the rock pit. This big excavator is back and they brought in a big water tank (for fire if needed). The big rock crusher will be hauled over next week and set-up. Then a dozer and a Cat 644 loader and we'll be all set to start making 1" minus for road building. It will be nice to have some big serious dirt moving equipment around here so I can get some pet projects done. I want to re-cut a dozer trail all the way up to the top of my mountain and build a heliport landing on the peak for the firefighters to land when they need to get into the BLM behind me where there are no roads for 30 miles. It will also make a good deer trail all the way down the ridge.

Dave
 
You can't be thinking of shooting ground squirrels........you are having too much fun sailing that new Mellonseed of yours! Nice when the wind cooperates huh? :^)

Dave
 
The excavartor arrives up at the rock quarry..
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This thing is BIG!
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It has a yard and a half bucket with a huge claw/thumb that picks up boulders and big trees with ease. I gotta have Nick let me operate this thing for a day. I could not believe how steep this thing climbs, it's a hell of a machine.
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Dave
 
Dave,

Wow, two bricks a day, that's a lot of squirrels. Did you have some of the local kids loading for ya?

I sold the 22-250 just two weeks ago Dave. If I would have known you were interested, I'd have saved it for you. Sold it NIB as I never even slicked the bolt in. I do have a Benelli M1-90 for sale, but it doesn't seem to be your kind of gun - only one barrel.

Just picked up another 28 ga the other day. An almost NIB Remington 1100 Sporting 28. Saw it at out new Cabelas and couildn't resist. With the exception of some black oil on two of the choke tubes you would never even think it had been shot.

Pete
 
Pete, You need to do something about that 28 infatuation. Probably send me a couple to just test the seperation anxiety. I had a chat with my buddy who sufers from the same problem and his is getting worse yet. Be careful, it could be worse than boat building. yuk yuk
 
Tom,

I know what you are saying. I walk into a gun shop and all I look for anymore is 28 ga's. That's what got me into trouble at Cabela's - all I did was ask "you got any used 28 ga's". I think if I had grown up with a 28 ga I never would have gone to a 12 ga. - just too sweet.

Pete
 
Hey Pete,

You ever find any of those plastic 25 shell shotgun shell boxes for the 28 gage? I could use five or six. Can't seem to find them anywhere.

Regards,

Jim
 
Pete, I am aproaching that level w/ 20 ga. Started with it and made the full circle except for the 16 am back shooting the 20 for most things unless I need more snoose.
 
Dave,
Why do these guys have their heads still on? Early on in life I was told by my brothers that to hit anything other than a head shot was a girly thing to do. Besides it messes up the meat to do otherwise.

Dad and Mom have been having as much trouble with wild turkeys at their place. They aren't bashful at all and have been inviting themselves up on the porch.....there are about 30 of them so my folks are not enchanted. Dad has taken to using the BB gun to encourage them to leave but in doing so has killed two of them. I forsee lots of turkey on the barbe at this rate.

I had hoped to get out that way over the summer but tis not to be this year......I know it is just about blackberry picking time though......
 
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