Magnum Wheel Man
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last night, they pulled the corn picking equipment into the fields at our place, around dark... 1/2 hour or so later, outside doggie let us know he had something trapped in the tallest walnut tree in the front yard...MRS goes outside, in her PJ's, comes back in & informs me he must have something treed in the tallest Walnut tree... so I grabbed the LED flashlight I keep in the truck, walked over to the tree, & scanned through it... sure enough, near the top of the tree, 2 eyes glowed back down at me... couldn't see the animal, but was sure it was a coon ( no moon last night, so it was pretty dark... fortunately the walnuts drop leaves earlier than most trees )... had MRS get me the lil 17 Mach 2 that she usually shoots them with... ( I suppose that since she was already in her PJ's I'll have to shoot this one )... I still could not see the coon, only the glow of his eyes, from behind the crotch of the branch he was on... 1st shot unsupported, holding the flashlight under the stock, I was barely able to see the crosshairs, I hit the tree, which caused it to "disappear"... found it's eyes again with the flash light, higher up than it was before... so I backed up to the next tree, & braced my upper arm against it's trunk, found the eyes in the scope again, & put a little bullet screaming into it's chest... hearing it fall, you'd have thought I shot a small black bear out of the tree, the way it thudded to the ground... of course "Cody" ( 1/2 white german shepard & 1/2 husky ) was on it, near as fast as it hit the ground... still not dead, that thing was growling like a bear, it was so big, he couldn't do his usual "shaking it" thing... took me a few minutes to get it in the scope, with a shot that I was sure I wouldn't get the dog, while they wrestled into the edge of the corn field... put the 2nd shot into him COM, which pretty much took the rest of the fight out of him... huge coon... 50 - 60 lbs... but was pretty hard to get an accurate weight, playing tug a war with the dog... but doggie is a big boy, & he usually carrys his trophies around for a while... this one was big enough that he could barely drag it around...
sorry... no trophy pics... hope I wrote graphically enough above that you got the jest of the story...
that lil 17 Mach 2 has killed more than it's share of farm yard varmints... it's still MRS favorite & sits behind the door in the study, so it's always the 1st rifle grabbed for that type of use...
sorry... no trophy pics... hope I wrote graphically enough above that you got the jest of the story...
that lil 17 Mach 2 has killed more than it's share of farm yard varmints... it's still MRS favorite & sits behind the door in the study, so it's always the 1st rifle grabbed for that type of use...