I was heading out to my shop from the house, and saw a groundhog out by my barn, about 10 yds behind my 100 target backer. He was wide open in the short clover. I stepped into my shop, grabbed my Husqvara 12.7x44R, or as I call it a 50/60. This rifle has had the barrel shortened to 32" and has the military rear sight, I soldered on a ramp front sight. I had it loaded with a 450gr Lee boolit that I had sized to .512 lubed with orange magic Lyman lubed, and loaded with Unique. The gun balances well offhand, so I dropped in a round, pulled a stool out of my carport, and set down. I pulled the gun up, held the fine blade front about halfway up the groundhog who decided to oblige me by standing upright and looking at me. The trigger breaks at #2 and at the sound of the rifle firing I was immediately rewarded with a loud THWOP! That big 50 caliber round running about 1300fps, sent him airborne for about 6 feet with a big line of entrails and other stuff inside him spewing out all around. After about 3 pinwheels he hit the ground dead as a doorknob. That made my day, always good to get a good offhand shot off, at 60 years of age and all the health issues I have had the last few years. I have a clanger set at 100yds, that I shoot at least twice a week with that rifle, so I was fairly confident in the shot. I went over there 4 hours later to take a pic, and either a neighbors dog or coyote had carried him off, the entrails was still there along with a huge wet spot.
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