Gary Reeder
That would have been nice but I do good to spell SNIPER,
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, 14:27

much less to be one. I am pretty much a handgun hunter but I do enjoy shooting prairie dogs at longer ranges. Kase and I go out to an area where there are a lot of dogs. They range from 50 yards to 400 or more. Kase uses his heavy barreled AR-15 with a high powered scope. I have 2 rifles I use. One is a Remington model 700 Classic in 22-250 Improved. The other is a heavy barrel Savage in 22-250. We have a wind here pretty much all the time so we have to allow for that. I tape a foot long thread to the end of my barrels so I can tell which way the wind is coming from and how hard it is gusting.
I will have to give Larry Farley credit for some of my long range shooting. He and I went out every chance we had and shot ground hogs and often at longer ranges. In Tennessee we had to shoot over soy bean and corn fields and sometimes the ranges got a bit long, to where we had to aim a foot over the hogs to hit them.
Our hunting here is a bit different. The prairie dog is about 8" tall and 2" wide so he is pretty hard to hit, especially at longer ranges. We just park the truck, put sand bags on the hood and start glassing the fields. After 10 or 15 shots we move on to another field. On a good day we will get 25 to 30 P. dogs.
So no we are not up to the sniper's talent or experience but I think a 4th grader could have taken that shooter off the top of that building with his 22 single shot from 75 yards. There was a lot of mishandling of the performances that day, and it will take a long time for the Secret Service to get over that.