several trips to the warranty repair facility, we were fi nally able to get it to work properly, where it would shoot Speer 100-grain and 87-grain boat-tails in a group that was less than an inch. During that fi rst trip to Montana for prairie dogs and
My Success Story With A Winchester .25 WSSM M
Member Charles Vaughn
y fi rst contact with this particular rifl e came when I gave it to my son Geoffrey about four years ago. After
a big doe at approximately 400 yards. So I held the Winchester about four inches above the doe’s shoulder but the shot landed low and hit the dirt. So much for guesswork. The next day, the wind was mild and we hunted a new
coyotes, Geoff dropped a dog at 517 yards. It was a very hot day and the bolt was, at fi rst, a bit hard to open. Don Davies, a retired Delta Airlines captain, used his rangefi nder to come up with this distance. The next year, in 2008, Geoff spotted a nice antelope buck
just north of Baggs, Wyoming, and after tripping over the fence and landing on my face, I got off a nice shot at 75 yards. And that was that. One shot, and my tag was fi lled. This past year, Geoff’s neighbor, John Robinson, and I
didn’t get our buck permits but we were able to obtain two doe tags each for central Wyoming. John had been on several deer hunts but this was his fi rst “goat” shoot. On our fi rst morning, it was a bit windy and John missed
a couple of goats. But fi nally, he scored on one at around 275 to 300 yards and a second one at 350 yards. My fi rst shot was at a location north of town. We spotted
area. Upon spotting a standing goat with her head down, at about 300 yards, I put the crosshairs about two inches above her spine and squeezed off an 87-grain Speer bullet and down she went. En route to the processor, John spotted a big doe between
450 and 500 yards away and he said, “Let’s stop and give it a go.” After placing his bean bag on the hood of the truck, I put the crosshairs 24 to 30 inches high and squeezed one off. I paced off the distance at about 512 yards. Lucky me. That’s my sheriff’s badge number. John reluctantly back-tracked the distance and came up with nearly the same numbers. I drove his truck back on to the road, and John said, “Please shoot the next one closer to the road. I’m beat.” Now that we have all the kinks worked out of the Win-
chester .25 WSSM, it shoots about every load consistently very well, making Geoff and me very happy Winchester shooters.
The Club's Area Coordinators United States
Thomas Ferruzza 475 N. Carpenter Road Titusville, FL 32796 (321) 794-1245
varminthunter@hotmail.com
Lawrence D. Ford 640 E. 10th St
North Bend, NE 68649
Gary Lobe 5107 W. Howesdale Dr. Spokane, WA 99208
globe11@comcast.net
Canada
Henrik Hoyer 8 Camelot Avenue Leamington ON N8H 4V6 (519) 322-2283
hoyer@wincom.net
Dallas M. Walker 123 South 700 East Elwood, IN 46036 (765) 552-5842
DuWayne Miller P.O. Box 1015
Devils Lake, ND 58301
Jan G. TaraBori 73 River Street Galeton, PA 16922
gopher3@i2roam.com
Contact your Area Coordinators for informa- tion on the club, hunting, fi rearms, reloading, or just to tell them thanks for all the great volunteer work they do for the club.
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