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2023 in October 22th, i was on a wood grouse hunt with my son.
I had my Tikka T3 Varmint Stainless 24" barrel rifle, that was on a KRG Whiskey-3 Gen 6 chassis and spiced with Total Hunter OIC-1 forend.
Scope was Zero Compromise Optic ZC420 on Audere Adversus mount.
I do handload all of my ammo, like everyone who want´s the best for them guns.
So i was on the hunt, and i did spotted a black grouse on top of the pine tree, the distance was on Leica Rangemaster CRF-2400R rangefinder 490-meters, that is about 535-yards.
If you have not seen a black grouse, the leather area on this bird is about 4-5".
I did lay my rifle on a sand embankment, i did dialed to my scope 2.8 MRAD of elevation.
My handloaded 123gr Lapua Scenar leaves the barrel about 2,887 fps.
First round to the chamber, no wind at all, so i did take the bird straight to my ZComp reticle center, few gentle breath, then the lungs empty, light pull of the trigger and PEW!
Bird was looking in both side of it, that wtf was it!
So i took 0.1 MRAD more elevation, i thought that it might go under the bird.
Second Lapua Scenar to the barrel of Tikka.
I did took few relaxed, long breath, and same thing, one big breath, and lungs empty, you have that "action" that you know when to work.
So now it was that time, i did pull the trigger and i did saw that the bird did fall off of the top of the pine tree, YES!!!
I did it, it was and has been my record of taking out the black grouse.
But that was the easy part, then started the finding the bird, this meat on this black grouse is very delicious.
From the shooting place the way to the bird did looked easy, but the terrain was everything else than that.
There was a swamp on the area, like half away on the place, but it was very wide.
Lukily on this time in Finland, we have night frost, but i do weight about 260lbs, add the clothing, gun etc, it is easily 40lbs more.
So me and my son started to go over the swamp, we did add wood stick´s under our steps, it was like insaine mission imbosibble task
One wrong step, and you might be on a swamp, that has not bottom.
But the bird was must to find, i do not hunt, that i do kill the prey, but not get it, and in this situation, it is a food.
Always, always do respect the game!
It has given the life of it to you, same thing to other people, do treat another person as you would like to be treated.
But back to the hunt, after 2 hours looking, we did find the bird, because when looked the place, where to shot was taken, we did not
knew the swamp, and we did get off the place, where we did expected the bird to be.
But the end of the hunt was succes, we did find the bird, it was under the tree i did take the shot.
I did get a second bird at the same trip, this came about 180-meters, about 200-yards.
So this was, and is my best hunting memory.
You may look this picture, that male black grouse is not that big bird
Take the weathers off, the bird is not that big, but the meat is delisious.
I had my Tikka T3 Varmint Stainless 24" barrel rifle, that was on a KRG Whiskey-3 Gen 6 chassis and spiced with Total Hunter OIC-1 forend.
Scope was Zero Compromise Optic ZC420 on Audere Adversus mount.
I do handload all of my ammo, like everyone who want´s the best for them guns.
So i was on the hunt, and i did spotted a black grouse on top of the pine tree, the distance was on Leica Rangemaster CRF-2400R rangefinder 490-meters, that is about 535-yards.
If you have not seen a black grouse, the leather area on this bird is about 4-5".
I did lay my rifle on a sand embankment, i did dialed to my scope 2.8 MRAD of elevation.
My handloaded 123gr Lapua Scenar leaves the barrel about 2,887 fps.
First round to the chamber, no wind at all, so i did take the bird straight to my ZComp reticle center, few gentle breath, then the lungs empty, light pull of the trigger and PEW!
Bird was looking in both side of it, that wtf was it!
So i took 0.1 MRAD more elevation, i thought that it might go under the bird.
Second Lapua Scenar to the barrel of Tikka.
I did took few relaxed, long breath, and same thing, one big breath, and lungs empty, you have that "action" that you know when to work.
So now it was that time, i did pull the trigger and i did saw that the bird did fall off of the top of the pine tree, YES!!!
I did it, it was and has been my record of taking out the black grouse.
But that was the easy part, then started the finding the bird, this meat on this black grouse is very delicious.
From the shooting place the way to the bird did looked easy, but the terrain was everything else than that.
There was a swamp on the area, like half away on the place, but it was very wide.
Lukily on this time in Finland, we have night frost, but i do weight about 260lbs, add the clothing, gun etc, it is easily 40lbs more.
So me and my son started to go over the swamp, we did add wood stick´s under our steps, it was like insaine mission imbosibble task
One wrong step, and you might be on a swamp, that has not bottom.
But the bird was must to find, i do not hunt, that i do kill the prey, but not get it, and in this situation, it is a food.
Always, always do respect the game!
It has given the life of it to you, same thing to other people, do treat another person as you would like to be treated.
But back to the hunt, after 2 hours looking, we did find the bird, because when looked the place, where to shot was taken, we did not
knew the swamp, and we did get off the place, where we did expected the bird to be.
But the end of the hunt was succes, we did find the bird, it was under the tree i did take the shot.
I did get a second bird at the same trip, this came about 180-meters, about 200-yards.
So this was, and is my best hunting memory.
You may look this picture, that male black grouse is not that big bird
Take the weathers off, the bird is not that big, but the meat is delisious.
