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The third dog I dropped at a beef farm in Orange county. Dropped the male dog two weeks ago and figured the female would be hanging around looking for a mate or calve. It was howling the whole way to the field so much that I thought it was someone playing a joke on us. She didn't need anymore shots after the first, but being it was the last days of the season we let the bullets fly. SJC https://youtu.be/qW7_nZPdM58

The second dog was part of a pair that was chasing deer on a ridge. After an hour snow/sleet/rain delay where I hunkered down under a pine tree with my tactical stealth scooter I was able to call them into range and lucky enough for the male to stop in a sparsely wooded spot where I could get a quick shot. Tried to coax the female back into range, but no luck as the rain moved in and soaked me. SJC

Ended the dismal 2024/2025 Predator season dropping three coyote. I took off Thursday + Friday being the weekend was called to be a washout. First stop was at a buddy's camp I've been trying to get to, but the deep snow had the seasonal road closed. This strawberry blonde female came in silent and ran right by me into the food plot, but it didn't run fast enough. SJC

Been focusing on taking out coyote, so Mus hunting took a backseat. Since it's been getting warmer I decided to take the Mus rig for a spin. It didn't disappoint. Not the best image, but it was very humid. SJC

This is what happens when you have a bum hand, forgot to take the tripod because you only have one hand to grab the rifle, fall over a fence in your attempt to get a freehand shot at a dog that's been eluding you for months, forget you have a bum hand and can't take a second shot because you can't feel your fingers after cycling the action with your bum hand. To add insult to injury, there were two dogs in the field and my buddy was trying to let me know one dog was sitting 50 yards to my right side the whole time I was trying to sneak into range to get a shot and I didn't see it because I turned my comm's off. SJC

Been awhile since we've seen a dog at this farm. Warm weather has them traveling around. My buddy dropped a single dog of the three I called in from over 600 yards away. Big male at 148 yards with his enhanced Savage Impulse Predator 22-250/Nocpix Ace H50R. SJC

The second day of the season I would always put a mannequin dressed in orange or camo in one of the new guy tree stands before afternoon stand. You would hear them yelling at the mannequin before getting on the radio asking what to do. One time I dropped off one of the new hunters at an occupied stand and as I was leaving he stopped me and said there's someone in the stand. I told him to stand behind a tree with the radio in case it gets violent. So I yelled at the "Hunter" to get the F out of the stand or I'm going to shoot you out of it and unloaded my handgun with blanks at the stand. He almost crapped his pants. I took him to another stand where he shot his first buck, a nice 8 point. I miss those day's. SJC

Well the wind was so bad last night (You can hear it in the video) that we didn't go coyote hunting, so I decide to finally do some mus hunting around the abode with the Rix Storm S2 scope I purchased last year for the PCP rifle. The S2 is the cheapest bare minimum 256 res scope with a 3.5x base mag to get a shot at a tiny mus at 20 yards, especially with the PIP feature. While 256 resolution isn't the greatest, it's more than enough for my short range needs and now I have a dedicated thermal rig for mus hunting. SJC

I like it, but as others have mentioned it's not ideal if your not strong enough to use it. My father had a press, but it was for loading 41 magnum and 38 spcl. I started loading rifle using a Lee Loader kit. Lee Loader All you need is a mallet to use it. I paid nine dollars for my 30-06 kit in 1980 after buying my first 06 deer rifle. I progressed to a bench mounted press after getting into woodchuck hunting and target shooting, but the 45 year old Lee loader kit sit's on the shelf ready to load. Paid eleven dollars for the 12ga loader kit thats sitting next to the 06 kit. SJC

It also stands for Big Motherf'ing Gun. SJC

Nice Job. They don't last long when you feed them lead. SJC

Got a few hours to hunt before the storm hits. Lone female at 208 yards. Came in from over four hundred yards away howling like a male. .243 ended the noise. SJC

Dogs have been scarce since taking out the Alpha's, so it was great to see the Beta dogs coming in, but not so great missing. It happens. A friends NocPix S50R scope. Great thermal scope but you still need to put the crosshairs on them to hit them. SJC

Primary scope crapped the bed again, so I got some time behind the back up RIX L3 scope. Got this video of a fox that came in on a string, but lucky for it that it wasn't on the menu. Stopped it with a mouth squeak. SJC