One of my neighbors just invited me to hunt..

[Gr8Scott]

I get to hunt groundhogs on his farm. I haven't done that this year because his wife has cancer and I didn't want to disturb her. Weather is getting colder. I think the fuzzy little buggers won't be too plentiful.

[Gr8Scott]

I was gonna work on guns yesterday, but I was too tired after work. I decided some goundhog action was a good idea. Went to the neighbor's field and set up shop on the side of his driveway overlooking the cow pasture. I had his daughter in the truck with me. It wasn't even a 20 minute wait before I saw one. She had a hard time locating him because she's never hunted before and doesn't know what to look for. She kept moving in plain view of the groundhog and he got scared and jumped in his hole. She never saw him until he started popping his head out of the hole looking at us. He was about 175 yards away and throwing a slight shadow which finally gave her enough contrast to see him. It wasn't long after she saw him that I popped him. I offered her the shot, but she declined.

I thought my shot went wide and fired about seven rounds total while Mr Groundhog provided a moving target for me to shoot at. He ran in a loop and eventually started heading right for me. He didn't really run like he had been hit. He ran pretty fast and seemed confused about the location of his hole. The shooting started with him out about 4 feet from his hole. I didn't hit him on the move until round #7 I'm pretty sure. He stopped dead in his tracks then. Round #7 went right through his head. When I surveyed the damage, the first round was enough to take him out with a huge gaping exit wound in the chest. He ran 40 yards and about 20 seconds with a double lung penetration and an exit wound the size of a grapefruit. That was the first shot I took if I'm not mistaken. The exit wound was shallow however as if the bullet didn't open until the last possible second.