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[dogwood]

one of the guys I work with has a friend with a farm and a nasty rock chuck problem

This is the second trip out, first one I still hadn't tuned the rifle, now I'm pushing out Kodiaks at 850 fps.
I shot mostly H&N Rabbit Magnum II's as they seem to shoot well and where hitting the same POA as the Kodiaks at 50 yards

got a couple

[wahoowad]

good shooting pardner!

[Supercharged86]

Hey Guys, What's a rock chuck, is this a nicname? Sort of looks like something in the squirrel family? Steve

[dogwood]

rock chuck is the western cousin of the wood chuck - both are part of the ground squirrel family also know at yellow belly marmots

those 2 are a small ones, although from what I've seen the rock chuck doesn't get as big as the wood chuck aka groundhog - it still gets a to a pretty good size.

I'm still seriously considering a .25 marauder as I nailed a couple of the big ones with my .22 using Rabbit magnum II's and they still where able to get back up and scurry into they're holes.

the land owner doesn't care how they die as long as they do, but I was brought up to try for a clean kill, so it bums me out when they get back up.

[Supercharged86]

Ahh, I'm with you now. Woodchuck, rockchuck; I guess I didn't put the two names together. I guess I should of googled it first, yeah I'm a dope. So you've had good luck with the Rabbit Magnums? Just awful for me, do you find that with the straight sides they provide alot of resistance on the bolt as you try to chamber it? The .177's are extremely tight in the chamber and I'm assuming this has something to do with the poor results I'm getting. Thanks. Steve

[dogwood]

I don't find they are any harder to chamber than the Kodiaks, I was real happy to find the rabbits working almost as well as the Kodiaks, was afraid I had a one pellet gun....

[dogwood]

another successful day at the ranch, was really overcast and they where pretty much hunkered down for the day, but a couple popped and and this ones luck ran out, Kodiak at 50 yards