From the "deck" crow

[Melvin Eades]

This morning was a frosty 22 degrees and calm. A good morning to go coyote hunting I thought. We still have some snow on the ground that has melted, refroze, melted and refroze several times. Walking out to hunt this morning was like walking on bubble wrap. I heard a vehicle driving on a road over half a mile away crunching along and it sounded like it was only a few hundred yards away. Well....to make a short story longer, I didn't call anything in so I headed back in around 9:30.

I got home and had some breakfast and then needed to get to the post office before it closed so out the door I go and there are two crow just beyond the 200 yard backstop working on whats left of the deer from last fall. I stepped back in the house and grabbed my CZ 527 Varmint in .204 loaded with Sierra 39 gr. B.K.'s and then eased out onto the deck table for a shot. One of the crow flew off when it saw me but the other one stayed a little too long. I cranked the scope up, cross haired the crow and sqeezed the trigger. I watched the crow do a back flip through the scope.


Here's where I took the shot from.





The crow was 19 yards behind the 200 yard backstop and to the right of it right over the top of the gun barrel.




Here's a view from the crow back to the house.




Got a little "puff" reaction from the hit. Here are some feathers that were about 5-6 feet behind the crow.

[Clint E]

Yup it looks like you got it dialed in .Was that your desert for breakfast

[Ryan S Albright]

Nice Melven! I like your targets out there in the field. When I go for my squirrel shoots I stick targets out in the field like that so I can swing over and hit one once in a while to make sure nothing has changed. I know it is nice to be able to shoot off the back deck. I haven't been able to do that since I was a kid.

[Gube]

Nice snipeing from the "deck" Melvin. Snipeing from the deck is a true "treat" in itself.

[Glen]

I like 204'ed crows!!