Woodchucks--- funny story from Friday

Squirrelhunter91 · April 11, 2005

On Friday I went for a walk looking for shed antlers wearing a t shirt and jeans. No camo whatsoever. As I was crossing an old matenience(sp?) road, I see a big fat brown blob move out of the corner of my eye. I stop. And start walking up the road, but keeping my eyes on the movement. There was a woodchuck just standing there on top of a rock. You know what I'm talking about, the kind of stand and stare thing the prairie dogs do. They just sit there with their teeth out and hands hanging, just staring off into space. I have been told that these things have excellent eyesight, but for some reason, I was able to walk right by it without camo.

Ok, so I go home get dressed into my camo grab my pellet gun with some pellets and I'm off. When I arrive to the area where I saw the woodchuck about 20 minutes ago, he runs across the ground and stops. I sit down on the ground, rest the crosshairs on his head, take a deep breath and squeeze the trigger real slowly... I shoot, the pellet goes low, I completely missed the woodchuck. I checked the spot for blood, but nothing. It turns out that after I shot and missed, he ducked into his hole that was right in front of him. Slick little fugger. So I set up about 10 yards away from his hole and wait. In about 5 minutes, he pops out of another hole, but he is still in front of me. Again, I go through the same routine and miss again! He ducked into his hole once again. Then another 5 minutes pass, but then I noticed it was getting late and almost dinner time. I go to stand up and start moving when the woodchuck's head pops up out of his hole takes one look at me and goes back down. I could do nothing but laugh. It all happened so quickly. lol...

The problem I faced was that the shot kept going low and the pellet and crosshairs had no time to level out while in the air. At 1,000 fps and 10 yards, the pellet gets there extremely quick.

buckbuster11 · April 11, 2005