Well, I’m afraid you’ll get short shrift today if you were looking for a report on yesterday’s dove hunt at the Native Hunt property. I took no still photos, and first thing in the morning I left my new iKam Xtreme video glasses in the ranch truck. I didn’t see them again until I was packing to come home last night.
Speaking of packing to come home, I didn’t roll in until around midnight, after being up running around the ranch since 0400 (and I won’t even tell you what time I got to bed the night before). Tired is to what I am now, as breezy is to Hurricane Earl.
It was a great time, though. It’s always good to see the regulars again, and really neat to meet our celebrity hunters for the event, Tim Abell and Steve Kanaly.
The shooting started out pretty slow in the morning, but the evening hunt really got hot. I stopped at eight birds (mostly Eurasian collared doves) because that’s all I wanted to eat right now, but as we recounted the day around dinner, it looks like plenty of folks filled out their limits, and those who didn’t had lots of opportunities. Doves are deceptively tricky targets. The air was filled with unrequited gunfire.
Oh, and Holly, I don’t believe anyone collected any dove “bling”.
In lieu of a lengthy write-up with pictures and video, I decided to enhance this post with a link to Dave Petzal’s most recent Gun Nuts blog. In the post, Petzal remarks on the fact that at longer ranges, the “rules” of ballistics can get a little squishy. Just because a ballistics chart says the bullet will do one thing, it will sometimes do something completely different. The big take-away here is that, if you want to shoot at long ranges the only way to prepare is to practice at long ranges. You cannot count on a chart in a book or on a computer.
Hey phil have you tryed out those iKam Xtreme video glasses???????????????? Those things look pretty cool how is the quality of the video?????