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critters through the scope instead of squeezing the trigger; but I remember reading an article years ago where the writer said that on average, ’chuck hunt- ers spend an hour using binoculars for every shot they take. Don’t remember the writer’s name, but he knew what he was talking about. Occasionally a ’chuck will be spot-
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ted with the naked eye out in the middle of an almost-bare fi eld, but that doesn’t happen often. Best searching method we’ve come up with is to get into a solid position, elbows resting in front of the knees, binoc in both hands with its eyepieces pressed gently against the top edge of eye sockets. Carefully study everything in the fi eld. Don’t expect to see an entire critter. Look for something that doesn’t quite belong to the patch of cover you’re studying – a shadow, a line that looks alive somehow, maybe the glitter of an eye, maybe a tiny move- ment. When you’ve examined every- thing within your fi eld of view, move the binocular horizontally until you have a new fi eld, the edge of which just touches the edge of the previous one. Study the new fi eld just as carefully as the fi rst. Repeat the procedure until you come to a natural stopping place, a con- spicuous rock or tree or whatever. Then lower or raise the binocular enough to almost clear the swath you’ve just exam- ined and make another swath back to your starting point. Repeat as long as it takes to examine the whole area you’re interested in. This may seem like a lot of trouble to fi nd anything as unimportant as a 10-lb critter that sleeps in a hole in the ground, but that’s why you’re out there and that’s how you fi nd ’chucks. It’s also good practice for later when your game is a deer or elk or whatever. Incidentally, if you can’t hold your
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binocular steady enough, you might be able to rest it on something. I often use the horizontal handle atop my rifl e rest, a handy device designed by Bill Anderson, a retired FBI agent. It has a sliding rest on its vertical ⅝ -inch pipe that can be positioned for either prone or sitting use. Bottom end of the pipe is pointed and there’s a boot rest that makes it easy to stomp the unit into the ground. A triangular piece of thin metal extends from the boot rest’s outer end to the bottom end of the pipe. This takes all the shake ’n shimmy out of the rest when you’re shooting.
Wisey often just shoots prone
with sling, but he’s been a competitive rifl eman for decades at Camp Perry and places like that. Fergus and I use rests. I turned to Wise. “OK, I found a
’chuck for you. Now you get to fi nd one for me.” It took awhile. We’d already killed
a few from our position, and we’d taken others from this area on previous trips. I was wondering if we should go elsewhere, but the landowner had told us to get all we could. That’s a typical comment from a farmer. Most farmers would like shooters to get ’em all, but I doubt if that’s possible. Anyway, I didn’t suggest moving. “Not getting any cooler,” Chuck
said after a few minutes of glassing. “Wish I had a Pepsi.” “There’s a thermos of ice water
in the Jeep,” I said, referring to my old faded-green Toyota Land Cruiser, which my wife calls a Jade Jeep. “That’s a quarter-mile behind us.”
Then, “How ’bout if the fi rst guy that misses has to go back for the water?” “Nobody’s missed yet.” “You’re gonna, in just a second
or so.”
“How’s that?” “Up there about 10:00 o’clock.
Maybe a hundred yards beyond where Wisey popped the last one.” It took only two seconds for me
to locate the ’chuck in my glasses. It probably had just wandered out of the treeline.
“Big one,” Wise said. “They’re all
pretty big this time of year.” He lowered his binocular, reached for the range- fi nder. “Not quite a hundred more than my last one. It’s 308 yards.” “Glad I got the 22-250 instead of a 223 ….” It was just by chance that we all were using 22-250s today. I’ve men- tioned that Chuck’s was a No. 1 Ruger. Both Wise and I had heavy barrel 700 Remingtons, both coincidentally with 12x Leupolds. Often, one of us brings a rifl e for a smaller cartridge and takes the closer shots. I eased into a prone position be-
hind the rifl e rest and found the ’chuck in the scope. This close to the ground, the mirage was noticeable but there was no wind. The ’chuck had turned away from me and was now feeding. “You don’t want to shoot him in the rear end, do you?” Wise asked.
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