Against the �stinkin� jennys�, as the old timers used to call them, and who have overpopulated my pond. Most folks just call �em turtles nowadays.
My Mom, who lives on the property, and is a very spry 77 yrs old, told me they needed thinning out. She keeps catchin em crawlin across the yard, and she was afraid of not seeing one and stepping on it and breaking an ankle or something or of hitting one with the lawn tractor.
So today I set up my �Sniper�s Hide�. Actually not much of a hide, I just set up my portable shooting bench and a chair, next to the feeder. Sandbags & all.
I got my thumbhole stocked, bull barreled Savage .17HMR with a Leopold VX-III 4.5X14X40 scope nestled into the bags, and started lighting them stinking jennys up. Now these turtles haven�t been to school. As in nobody has been shooting at �em in several years, so I�d pop one, and another one not 20 ft away would only go under for a few seconds and pop his head up as if to say, �Where did you go, George?�
Started with a new box of 50 rounds, and loosed 20 Hornady 17 grain
V-Max bullets in under one hour. 17 confirmed hits, and three called misses.
Now hittin a half inch turtle head at 50 yards is about the same as hitting a man sized target at 1000 yds, in perfect weather conditions, so this ain�t like shootin fish in a barrel.
Before anyone starts in telling me I should have trapped and relocated them, let me just say this:
20 rounds of ammo = around $6.00
Turtle trap = $150.00
Do the math
Besides, this is a HECK of a lot more fun!!
