Browninglover1
Well-Known Member
It's been a few years since I had a serious rock chuck hunt. Last Saturday we loaded up our backpacks with a bunch of rifles and ammo and headed into an area that's been known to have a few chucks. It didn't take long to find some chucks on the opposite hill and we unloaded our shooting gear.
I recently bought a TriggerCam and figured this hunt would be the perfect opportunity to field test it. I was using my custom 223 that's shooting 75 ELMD at just under 3k FPS and it's topped off with a Burris XTR III. The TriggerCam setup was fairly straight forward and I confirmed it was focused in fairly well before I started letting lead fly. I was definitely a little rusty, and the winds later in the day really kicked my butt, but we still managed to kill quite a few at distances from 550-1k yards.
I had a few that absorbed the 75 ELDM and wandered off before dying, but most were dead within seconds. The fun factor of a low recoiling rifle that is still deadly to 900 yards cannot be understated. It might become my all time favorite varmint gun if I keep having this much fun with it.
I linked a few videos below from some of the kill shots. The furthest one on video is the one that is also the most out of focus (it's the last link), but he was 881 yards away when he took his eternal nap.
I recently bought a TriggerCam and figured this hunt would be the perfect opportunity to field test it. I was using my custom 223 that's shooting 75 ELMD at just under 3k FPS and it's topped off with a Burris XTR III. The TriggerCam setup was fairly straight forward and I confirmed it was focused in fairly well before I started letting lead fly. I was definitely a little rusty, and the winds later in the day really kicked my butt, but we still managed to kill quite a few at distances from 550-1k yards.
I had a few that absorbed the 75 ELDM and wandered off before dying, but most were dead within seconds. The fun factor of a low recoiling rifle that is still deadly to 900 yards cannot be understated. It might become my all time favorite varmint gun if I keep having this much fun with it.
I linked a few videos below from some of the kill shots. The furthest one on video is the one that is also the most out of focus (it's the last link), but he was 881 yards away when he took his eternal nap.
I went 223, to briefly 22-250, to VERY briefly 22 Creed. 223 was old faithful... Might be my most consistent rifle I've ever had. 22-250 was scarily accurate but super thin barrel and I have the disease where I always want something new 
. 22 Creed I ordered way too heavy and got bored before I used it much. All shot the 75 Eld-m very well. 
