All guests drew for stands and Roy drew a stand next to the area I normally hunted so I dropped him off as I went to my area. The stand Roy drew consisted of
a ladder stand located some 10 yards off the end of a food plot which was approximately 35 yards wide and 100 yards long. A single large stump remained in this plot, some 80 yards from the stand. Just about the time it was getting too dark to shoot, I heard Roy shoot, then about 45 seconds later he shot again. When I picked up Roy to return
to our hunting shack I asked him what he had shot. He matter of factly told me he had shot the stump. I thought about this for a couple of seconds, then asked him about the second shot. Roy then stated the stump had moved so he shot it again. To be perfectly honest, I had a degree of empathy for Roy because I had hunted that same stand several times and carefully eyed that same stump in the final minutes just before darkness. Sometimes it is amazing what near dark- ness along with your imagination can cause you to see. The second event occurred at the
same club. Another member had invited a guest whom I will call Bruce. Members and guests meet at our hunting shack an hour or so prior to going to assigned stands or hunting areas. Bruce spent most of this time relating his hunting exploits all over the world along with how good at it he was. Bruce drew a stand some dis-
tance from my area. Another member took him to his stand and I drove to my area, trying to forget about Bruce. While returning to the hunt shack after the evening hunt, I saw several lights in the general area of the stand Bruce had hunted so I drove to the lights. Bruce and two members were there and Bruce was telling them about the enormous 10 point buck he had shot. The deer had run into some thick woods which Bruce couldn’t understand since, according to him, his 300 magnum always provided instant kills. Bruce didn’t have any idea where
the deer was when he shot, much less any idea where the deer entered the woods. We, the two members and yours truly, eventually found a couple of spots of blood where the deer had entered the woods. Bruce told us the deer couldn’t
go far because his aim was always dead- ly and that it might have been a 12 point rather than a 10 point. To make a long story short, we eventually followed the blood trail to a gut shot 6 point having a 12-inch spread. Bruce, who was winded and lagging behind, finally caught up and loudly proclaimed that was not the deer he had shot. He informed us that he had never shot a deer that small and he had no idea how such a deer lay dead at the end of the blood trail. Roy was invited to return as
a guest several times and became a member two years after he “killed” the stump. He was frequently reminded of the event and we all had many laughs about it. He became a good deer hunter and a better friend. He had, by the way, dead centered the stump with both shots as we learned when we went to take pictures of his “trophy stump.” Bruce was fined $300.00 for shoot-
ing a buck that did not meet the Club requirements. He was never invited back and the member who invited him was reminded of the type of guests he should invite. Guess it takes all kinds of people to make the world go around. Deviation over. It didn’t have
anything to do with varmint hunting, improving accuracy, etc. but it may have given you a little more insight on the types of people most of us who read The VARMINT HUNTER Magazine® are comfortable with. Mid March, 2011
I finally have had two pretty
good days for shooting groups and both excursions were quite enjoyable. Trees were starting to bud out, the birds were singing, temperatures were in the mid-70s, and I had the opportunity to watch seven turkeys and three deer for an extended length of time. What more could one ask for? Table 2 shows the four group sizes shot for each of the rim thicknesses used.
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The data in Table 2 indicates that
rim thickness does affect accuracy. Us- ing the 0.060 rim groups as a base, the 0.055 rim groups are 0.166 inch and 30.1% larger and the 0.064 rim groups are 0.059 inch and 10.9% larger. Also, please note that the smallest two groups were shot using the 0.060 rim cases. I would venture an opinion that
if a larger number of groups, say +/- 10, were fired that the average group sizes from the 0.060 and the 0.064 rims would tend to equalize. This is based on (1) the two small groups with the 0.060 rims are a little better than typical and (2) all of the groups with the 0.064 rims are smaller than the largest group with the 0.060 rim. The value of improving accuracy
to this degree depends on the accuracy of the complete firing system you are using (including you, your rifle, your cartridges, your scope, your rest, etc.) along with what you are shooting at. It has no value if you are shooting tin cans free hand at 43 yards and little value if your rifle won’t group five shots in +/-1.5 inches at 100 yards. It has some value if you are shooting at a small prai- rie rat at 133 yards with a firing system
TABLE 2
Group Sizes (inches) 0.055 Rim
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Average
0.737 0.662 0.732 0.680 0.703
0.060 Rim 0.425
0.624 0.410 0.690 0.537
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0.064 Rim 0.608
0.679 0.511 0.586 0.596
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