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    Canada Gopher hunt,

    Just got back from a few days away down south, gopher hunting, (Richerson ground squirrel)Name:  IMG_1311.JPG
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    found lots of spots, but with late winter, most farmers are still caving or seeding, so found it hard to find someone home to ask.
    Shot a few fields around Provost Alberta, and Strathmore Alberta, couldn't believe how many in sum places, crawling with them, farms hate them due to the holes causing damage to equipment, vehicles and stock.
    took .22 semi, new Volquarson .22 mag and the cooper 20 Vartarg, mostly shot the .22 mag, just wandered around the fields and shot free hand, conditions were quite windy, 26deg,
    seen plenty of mule deer, pronghorn antelope, and bird life on my travels,
    245 gophers on sunday, 48 the day before, and a snow shoe hare.
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    Are you allowed to shoot deer anytime of year or is there a season?

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    Awesome looks like a fun time
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    Quote Originally Posted by stug View Post
    Awesome looks like a fun time
    Hell yes, no shortage of targets and plenty of trigger time.

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    Looks Great fun!¨

    Never knew there were antelope in Canada!
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    Looks like fun. Bet your shooting's good after all those small targets.

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    A lot of fun I bet.
    It takes 43 muscle's to frown and 17 to smile, but only 3 for proper trigger pull.
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    Farmers will be happy with a few less Gophers around

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    Lol 245 haha good shit , I cracked a woody looking at that gun...what is it ? @southernman
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    One of them looks like a Cooper...... So nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boaraxa View Post
    Lol 245 haha good shit , I cracked a woody looking at that gun...what is it ? @southernman
    Not sure what rifle your talking about,
    the laminated rifle is a Volquartsen .22 mag, with Nikon scope.
    the scoped rifle with Barrel vents is a cooper Montana varminter, in 20 Vartarg,
    the iron sighted is a browning SA-22,
    I put up pictures, of hits with the vartarg, but its literary just bits of gopher,

    Somebody asked about Deer, they are only open for hunting for two months, and depending on the managemt Zone may be draw only, so very limited big game hunting compared to NZ.

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    I had to look up the 20 vartag. I don't get out much anymore so to speak and while I've heard of the 204 and would consider buying one, never heard of it.
    Its a pretty cranky (fast etc.) little cartridge.
    No wonder you don't put up happy snaps of the dead'uns.
    You'd be a member of the red mist club with that one wouldn't you?

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    Small targets....are they quick and flighty or dumb and slow?
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    Quote Originally Posted by csmiffy View Post
    I had to look up the 20 vartag. I don't get out much anymore so to speak and while I've heard of the 204 and would consider buying one, never heard of it.
    Its a pretty cranky (fast etc.) little cartridge.
    No wonder you don't put up happy snaps of the dead'uns.
    You'd be a member of the red mist club with that one wouldn't you?
    you could say that,
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    VC, they kinda both, small and very quick when on the move, but they hunker down, close to there hole, and you can shot at one or near buy, and they stay put, sometimes you can shoot at the same one, and miss and get a second or third shot, they often duck back underground, and come back up a few minutes latter, not as flighty as rabbits.

 

 

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