I just got back from a "walkabout" down back. There are 40 acres of blueberry fields there and. I encountered ten turkeys, this first day of the season...three Toms and 7 Jakes, any of which would have been easy to bag with a shotgun, about 20 yards away...in the open. I was just inside the woods line and they had no idea there was a dangerous killer standing there. I don't want to shoot a turkey, so brought my new light varmint rifle instead of my 12 gauge.
The rifle is a slightly-used .223, Rem 700 Light Varmint, Stainless Fluted that I bought a week ago at LL Bean for just such walkabouts. It weighs 6 3/4 lbs without scope and about 7 3/4 lbs. with a temporary 3-9X Bushnell 3200. (A Leupold VX2 3-9 is on order and was shipped today.)
My trail camera was less than 5 yards from me and the turkeys were on it, but exposure and focus were very poor. (It missed the best pictures at about 10 yards.) I knew where they were in the scene, yet still had a difficult time seeing them. Fun in rural Maine!!!!
(Rifle is shown in this thread "Older Rem 700 SFLV" on another page, so I couldn't post it here.)
The rifle is a slightly-used .223, Rem 700 Light Varmint, Stainless Fluted that I bought a week ago at LL Bean for just such walkabouts. It weighs 6 3/4 lbs without scope and about 7 3/4 lbs. with a temporary 3-9X Bushnell 3200. (A Leupold VX2 3-9 is on order and was shipped today.)
My trail camera was less than 5 yards from me and the turkeys were on it, but exposure and focus were very poor. (It missed the best pictures at about 10 yards.) I knew where they were in the scene, yet still had a difficult time seeing them. Fun in rural Maine!!!!
(Rifle is shown in this thread "Older Rem 700 SFLV" on another page, so I couldn't post it here.)