01-16-2020, 11:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-16-2020, 11:41 PM by Double Naught Spy.)
I got an opportunity to hunt with the guy who is making ammo for me. He got a chance to see how I hunt and what my needs are. Chad, is himself a hunter and as it turned out we meshed pretty well.
I misjudged distances on the first property where we encountered a group of coyotes. This was a brand new property that I had toured for the first time just a few hours prior with the landowner, surveying recent hog rooting. We should have had 2 coyotes, but only ended up with one.
On to the next property, my skunk property where the landowner has been plagued with skunks this winter and Chad blew up a skunk quite nicely with a .224 Valkyrie. This was the first skittish skunk I had encountered. After he beat us the first time, I think it got personal with Chad, LOL. I bet we tracked him 300 yards and set up in him 3 times before Chad finally got a decent shot and he made the best of it.
We got onto hogs and tracked them across a muddy field and over a hill where we found out that the original 5 we saw were part of a much larger sounder. We had part of the hogs out in the open and part in higher vegetation up near the ridge top and I suggesting we take the hogs out in the open and avoid shooting over the ridge top. We ended up taking just 2 sows from the group, though I believe a couple more hogs were hit. Chad's hit on his second hog went down, but did not stay down. In total, we hit it 6 times with it going down each time, only to get back up again 5 times. We didn't necropsy, but found no exit wounds. I don't know about .224 Valkyrie performance at all, much less with ELD-M ammo, but the Varmageddon's lack of penetration is really starting to show. As will be seen in my next video (next night), the Varmageddon really isn't up to dealing with hogs. It can work, but there are just so many other better choices. I had been warned about this and now I am convinced. I have been warned about several of the bullets I have tried, LOL, some of which have done extremely well form me such as the TNT 90 gr. bullets. I like to see for myself how things will perform.
[video=youtube_share;Va0IuzPwJpk]https://youtu.be/Va0IuzPwJpk[/video]
I misjudged distances on the first property where we encountered a group of coyotes. This was a brand new property that I had toured for the first time just a few hours prior with the landowner, surveying recent hog rooting. We should have had 2 coyotes, but only ended up with one.
On to the next property, my skunk property where the landowner has been plagued with skunks this winter and Chad blew up a skunk quite nicely with a .224 Valkyrie. This was the first skittish skunk I had encountered. After he beat us the first time, I think it got personal with Chad, LOL. I bet we tracked him 300 yards and set up in him 3 times before Chad finally got a decent shot and he made the best of it.
We got onto hogs and tracked them across a muddy field and over a hill where we found out that the original 5 we saw were part of a much larger sounder. We had part of the hogs out in the open and part in higher vegetation up near the ridge top and I suggesting we take the hogs out in the open and avoid shooting over the ridge top. We ended up taking just 2 sows from the group, though I believe a couple more hogs were hit. Chad's hit on his second hog went down, but did not stay down. In total, we hit it 6 times with it going down each time, only to get back up again 5 times. We didn't necropsy, but found no exit wounds. I don't know about .224 Valkyrie performance at all, much less with ELD-M ammo, but the Varmageddon's lack of penetration is really starting to show. As will be seen in my next video (next night), the Varmageddon really isn't up to dealing with hogs. It can work, but there are just so many other better choices. I had been warned about this and now I am convinced. I have been warned about several of the bullets I have tried, LOL, some of which have done extremely well form me such as the TNT 90 gr. bullets. I like to see for myself how things will perform.
[video=youtube_share;Va0IuzPwJpk]https://youtu.be/Va0IuzPwJpk[/video]
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My videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange