Today I was doing some logging reperation work with the members of one of my logging crews when the topic of my gun habit was somehow started. One of the guys on the crew just went and blurted out "I don't need 30rds from a machinegun to hit something, I can hit groundhogs from 700 yards away with my .22-250" This was my reaction ------>
He says "What your not impressed?" I said "I just don't believe you. You might think you can but there isn't many places around here where you can shoot 700 yards and my AR isn't a precision rifle anyway, it is a defensive carbine."
He goes "Hey Junior, how far was that deer I killed last year?" Junior comes up and starts saying how Billy (the bragard) saw this monster buck 500 yards from off a road so he stopped his truck in the middle of the road pulled out the .22-250 and dropped a 240# 10 point buck in his tracts
(This smells of
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I said ok if you can do all of those things then you shouldn't have a problem hitting one of those 4 crows there on the other side of the field. So he goes to his truck and pulls out this half-rusted Ruger .22-250 M77 with a Tasco 6-18X scope on it. Before he shoots I pulled out a pair of my binoculars and told him he had to call which bird he was going to shoot. Well he calls bird on the right. He shoots and I saw the bullet impact about a foot high.
I said "You shot high, so how far do you think the bird was?" Billy replies "Oh 375" and Junior chimes in "It has got to be near 400). So I turn on my GPS to measure it and it ends up being only 230. Billy says "Well you have to remember I was shooting up hill so you still have to aim higher"
I told him that wasn't the way it worked. So I offered him a little redemption. I measured out 100 yards and put a can of spray paint down and walked back and told Billy that if he could hit the can in one try that I would buy him lunch. He shoots and misses it about 4 inches to the left. I pulled my AR out flipped up the BUIS and hit it on the first try.