2020 Trip #1, Central, CO, Jan 21, with and Me, Myself and I
First Trip of 2020 with me, myself, and I. A one day trip to get out of the house and track down a new ranch to shoot on.
The day was, according to the weather people, to be a sunny 55 degree day with no wind, NOT.
The day started out cool. In Colorado, in January, that means around freezing. Stopped for breakfast and a fresh cup of coffee before daylight at McDonalds. Taking my time it was well after daylight when I headed on East to find the ranch I had been informed about.
This time of the year the Stock Show is in full swing. This ranch/farm raises Red Angus beef. I had my doubts of catching the rancher home, someone had to be there. In luck I found the rancher hard at work when I arrived. After introductions all around the rancher gave me a map of the locations of his prairie dog towns.
With map in hand I Let him get his day going. I headed off to find some prairie dogs . With the altitude of Central Colorado being around 4,300 feet it is populated with Black Tail prairie dogs that don’t hibernate. They sometime stay underground for long period of time during snow storms eating stored grass from the Fall. As soon as the sun comes out bright they’re out running around, the sun wasn’t out: at all.
The good thing about Colorado is “wait a few minutes, the weather will change”, kind’a. After about an hour the temperature was above 45, little wind, but still cloudy. The prairie dogs started moving and I started shooting.
I had prepped my suppressor the night before and had plans to shoot both my 223 AI and 20 Practical for the day.
Around 1:00 Pm the wind was up and cold, I headed out of the field. It wasn’t a bad day of shooting for the winter. I shot 84 prairie dogs getting 6 doubles for a little over 3 hours of shooting. I’ll check out the other fields another day.
2020 Trip #1
I shot both my 223 AI and 20 Practical some, not a lot. It’s great shooting with a suppressor. The suppressor contains the explosion at the end of the barrel as the bullet and the gasses exit. All that is heard down range is the sonic boom of the bullet breaking the sound barrier and a “pop” the rifle makes. At a little over two time the speed of sound, at my altitude, the prairie dogs aren’t alarmed by that sound or the “pop” of the rifle.
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