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It's getting to that time of year.

 

 I did next to nothing this week....

 I did my normal Monday stuff then took a trip out to Jake', where he insisted I get his crossbow and go hunting. I haven't yet mainly because of the rain and wind being the wrong direction. I'm hoping to get out Monday or Tuesday, the wind looks to be in the right direction. Oh yeah I also watched the Vikings just roll over to the Lions.....😢

 

Tuesday I took a buddy to another buddies place to hunt dove. I've never hunted them so late in the season, but man did he have dove. I saw more dove in a couple hours then I had all early season. After learning the field and where they wanted to be it was time to go. We got a couple shots but connected with nothing but air.

 

 Wednesday I tinkered around the house a little. I also went to my neighbors and scrubbed down the kayak so he can put it away clean. Then just became a couch potato for the rest of the day.

 

 I've almost gotten more done today than any other... I did my normal Thursday stuff and this.....

 That's my 2023 buck that I did into a European mount, that was 2 tries in one.... first and last.

Not sure how much I like it yet, it might be too close? I'm going to leave it for a while and see if it grows on me.

Yep... I did it again...

Well Monday I went back to the range to make my final adjustments before season... On the way there I did see 7 turkeys on the side of the road... on public, that was cool.

 

Anyway made to the range and again had a great time shooting. This is how my "fine tune" of my guns ended up before I put 'em up 'til season. To say the least... it went extremely well. 

After a couple rounds downrange I was able to finish with this.

22 mag 50 yards 5 rounds.

6.5 PRC @ 100 yards... I pulled the first round but sent the next 2 where they should be.

I didn't get a pic of my 222 but if you look at the first pic it is the top right 1" target with 2 on the top of the target and 2 higher.

 

After getting done at the range when I got home I decided to go out after those turkey's on Tuesday. I got up late, left the house late, got signed in late... and so on, you get the picture. Wait let's back up a little, when I got out of my car my morning coffee, OJ, and energy drink were all hitting at once. So I did what we do... I found a tree and commenced watering it....After a couple seconds of not hearing my urine hitting the leaves... and knowing I'm peeing.... I was wondering why? Well come to find out when I slung my chair over my shoulder and then slung my jacket over my chair... I was pissing on the hood of my jacket. Well I threw my jacket on the floorboard, rummaged through the car for a spare camo jacket and headed to "the" spot. It was a gorgeous morning and I was happy I had another jacket because it was cool. I sat down got ready and just watched the day start. 

 It was around 9:30 and I started setting an end time just so I wouldn't sit there all day, well I decided my end time would be 10 or 11 but no later than that. Not too long after I decided on that this turkey just walked by me on my right from behind. I was shocked.... I put the dot on her head and squeezed the trigger..... it was 9:42

Yep she was a mature bearded hen

After I got done cleaning my bird I decided to go duck hunting. So I got all my gear ready along with the boat, clothes and gun. Tuesday I was headed out to a spot I like, close to home, got to the spot, set up and waited for the sun. It wasn't too long before the sun was up and I had 4 mallards wanting to play, I chased off all but one. It was a great day.

That was the end of my outdoor adventure until this morning at 8:30 when my buddy called, said he shot a deer and wanted to know if I would come and help. Ummm????? Yeah!!! So I hopped up, put some clothes on and ran out to help with his deer.

The pic doesn't do him justice, he was a really nice heavy bodied 9 point.

I'm gonna do it again......

 I have never gone to the range to have a good time..... I always just go and sight in and I'm done. Not fun just something I have to do before I go hunting.

Monday was different... I had an absolute blast. I went to sight in my 6.5 PRC and the new Rossi 22 mag semi auto, and as long as I was going to be there I shot my 222 also. 

So the PRC was bore sighted at the gun shop that put my scope on. Needless to say it was way off at 100 yards, so after alot of shoot and clean and scope adjustments I got to this....

 I had a blast sighting this gun in, that's the fun side. The bad side is I sent about 100$ downrange 😖😢.... but it was still fun. 😍

 

Next up was my triple deuce, I walked the target down to 100 yards, and sent a 3 shot group left of center. After a couple adjustments and more money downrange I had it OK. (not to ruin the surprise but I'm going back again next week to get all of them EXACTLY where I want 'em.)  

 

Now the Rossi took the stage....WOW😲. I sold my Savage 22 mag bolt action and bought this Rossi semi auto.... Why?? 

Well I originally wanted a semi auto (15 plus years ago), however I quickly found out that the 22 mag auto was a unicorn. They had a really hard time making it run without jamming issues, and the ones that did figure it out were WAY out of my price range. So I settled on the Savage bolt, which had issues of it's own.

 

7 years ago I started hearing some hub bub about the Rossi 22mag getting the feed jams worked out and how reliable this gun was. I waited.... read the reviews and waited.... then this year it sounds like the coon prices will be up.... I know, what's the correlation?? Well that 22mag was my coon gun. After reading a bunch of reviews I decided to sell my Savage and buy this Rossi. I took my scope off the old mag and dropped it on the new one, not bore sighted, just dropped it on the pic rail and tightened it.

These were the first 10 rounds downrange.

😲😲😲😲 while adjusting it, the rounds tracked R to L.

Thought it was good enough to move up so off to the 50 yard range....

😲😲😍🙉 I cannot tell you how tickled I am with this gun. It ran flawlessly and was heaven to shoot, absolutely one of the best buys I have ever made.🙉😲😲😲😱 

 

Honestly writing this and I still can't wipe the smile off my face. So I'll go back Monday and send some more rounds downrange and fine tune all of them. I couldn't do it last Monday because I ran out of time, I shot from noonish 'til close at 5. 

 

Tuesday I went fishing on the pontoon until my neighbor was ready to pull it out. It was the first time loading it on the trailer he bought, it went on really good and very easy. 

Yeah there's no pics of fish for a reason... I'll let you figure it out. Hint:🙅🐟 

 

I had a pretty good week, hope it was good to you. 

Be safe. 

Well....????

 I didn't really do anything this week, just kinda hung out and relaxed. Didn't get any big projects done, or for that matter any small projects. I did get my mouse baits set out, and on Tuesday I did go fishing, but other than that.... really nothing.

It was everything I thought it could be. 

 

Darnit

 Well I didn't do a whole lot this week but I did get the decoy trailer cleaned out and got the wheeler put in it. Ready to go duck hunting... now all I need are some ducks and gooses and season to start. I was going to get a before and after, but when I remembered I was already halfway done. I wanted to go fishing with my neighbors kayak but I tweaked my back on Tuesday when I cleaned out the trailer, (thankfully it was near the finish line) so I really took it easy on Wednesday. I'm hoping I'll be able to get out next week, it's quickly coming to the end of fishing season for good for this year. 

So, not a whole lot for this week... 

I did however forget these pics from last week so here ya go....

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