The Real Sign Of Spring-Gophers

[shrapnel]

I headed back a week early from our trip around the southwest. I had gotten a new Cooper model 21 at the Billings gun show in February and was dyeing to try it out. I got back yesterday afternoon and headed to the range to sight it in. It shoots great, today I went looking for gophers and found some...

 

[BillDoe708]

Sweet. What caliber and bullet are you shooting?

 

[shrapnel]

17 Remington in a single shot Cooper. 20 grain Hornady VMax, with Big Game powder. They were out again yesterday and that bullet will lift them up onto a fence...

 

[buffybr]

17 Remington in a single shot Cooper. 20 grain Hornady VMax, with Big Game powder. They were out again yesterday and that bullet will lift them up onto a fence...

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So obviously you're shooting them in a high fence enclosure. How sporting is that?

 

[shrapnel]

So obviously you're shooting them in a high fence enclosure. How sporting is that?

It really is unethical, but there is nothing like a good fence to catch them, on the way down...

 

[buffybr]

Oh, the horror of gopher guts hanging on the fence!

Nice looking rifle, and where did you find green grass?

 

[shrapnel]

Oh, the horror of gopher guts hanging on the fence!

Nice looking rifle, and where did you find green grass?

Last summer...