COOSEFAN Report post Posted April 23, 2012 Well, finally got out for a few days and had some fun! I first headed up and met some friends at one of their ranches to practice some LONG range shooting...and I couldn't pass up the fishing while there either We first set up and fouled the guns from the benches at 600 yards and then moved out to 800 and 1125 yards! I've practiced a bunch at 800 yards but this was the first time shooting farther than that! With more than 2 full rotations of the turret, we dialed in my 300WM and I was killing the steel elk target with every shot at 1125 yards! Although I will never shoot at an animal that far, it seriously builds up your skills and confidence at closer ranges and this rifle is ready for the season to start! Here's the 800-1125 yard set up, the targets are past the field and on top of the ridge... With a fish filled creek flowing through the ranch along with several ponds I jumped in a paddle boat and this was where the fun began! The trout were aggressive and the fighting was furious! For several hours I got pulled around the pond by one trout after another! Sure, it wasn't a high alpine setting on public land, but I did have several Coues deer watching me fish and the trout were big so I enjoyed the heck out of it! I tried using my picture taker camera to take video, I just set it down on the paddle boat and got some video of one of the catches. The pics I took of the Coues does that were watching me didn't turn out either. Here's a little clip I put together... Paddle Boat Trout Next, I ran home, took a shower and jumped in my buddy's truck and headed to Alamo Lake! My dad and nephew and some friends were already out there and my buddy Craig, his son Tanner and I were there by Friday night. I was really bad about leaving the camera in the glove box and never got any pics of the fish or sunsets. We caught a bunch, none were very big but it was fun! On the last day we finally got into some shootable fish. I grabbed the bow and knocked out 1 carp and 3 Tilapia right away. Tanner then took over and stuck his first Tilapia with my bow! It was a great weekend and now being back to reality sucks. I am headed to Mexico to scout some ranches tomorrow so reality will be short lived thankfully Thanks if you read through my post, JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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