So here's the story, me and 3 of my buddies have a little $20 bet each year on who can get the longest shot with my .22. Rules are, one of the other 3 have to witness the kill and you have to be able to retrieve the body for a pic and at least one other has to confirm the range. Tyler had the top shot at 230 yards untill yesterday morning. (I have a 246 yard first round kill but it wasn't witnessed) I ran out of rounds for my 6mm, so I decided to take the .22 out and try to beat his shot. I called Matt up and he said he was up to go. We went out to a friends field and it wasn't 5 minutes before I spotted a groundhog. Ranged it at 270 yards and got set up. I shoot a Marlin 880SQ with a Nitrex 3-15 TR2 inside of Burris Sigs with 30 MOA. 270 yards is where my elevation maxes out around 39MOA so it was somewhat at the perfect distance. Fired the first shot and it was a little right. He started running and stopping every few yards then running again. I loaded another round and held off more to the left and used the reticle for some hold over. This shot hit even further to the right. I was in too much of a hurry trying to get him before he got to his hole to focus on the wind. He started running towards us for a second and then did a 180 and headed for a tree line where some hay bails were lined up. I lead him by about 2 yards and just barely missed again. Reloaded and by then he was within 10 yards of the tree line and still running. Lead him even more and fired off the last round. Hit him in the spine and dropped him about 5 feet away from the hay bails. I know it's not as impressive as some of the 300 and even 600+ yard kills I've read about on here but I'm gettin there
I wrote down the distance on the paper in the pic but the glare made it too hard to see so I edited it with my phone
I wrote down the distance on the paper in the pic but the glare made it too hard to see so I edited it with my phone
