Prairie Dogs and the Triple Duce in a short Barrel Contender

[Kirkned]

I am getting cabin fever. I need some high volume shooting. I have been out chasing coyotes. Have had my share of success and failures. I figure that I have actually dropped the hammer 23 times on predators of those 18 have been added to the fur count. While this has been fun and at times very exciting it just does not compare to the fast pace of shooting Prairie Dogs with a Contender in the old 222 and a ten inch barrel. For me this is what life is all about. I also like shooting sage rats with a rimfire in the Contender, but for shear enjoyment an spectacuar results ya just can't beat the triple duce and a short tube.

Now, for those of you rifle shooters that talk about shooting 500 to 1000+ yards, I say wonderful, but give me a fat old dawg at 200 to 350 yards, the Contender with a 10" tube chambered in triple duce an a 50 grain TNT bullet, pushed by 23.5 grains of Accurate 2230, touched off by a CCI or Winchester small rifle primer, now we're talking fun. Do I hit everyone at this range? Nope, but I do hit a lot more than I miss.

I've loaded ever piece of brass I have and now I have 3½ to 4 months of waiting. I've cleaned and recleaned all the barrels. I'll wait and in the mean time I'll see if I can get the hammer to drop on a few more of them coyotes and foxes.

May have to take a drive over to the Wells, Nevada and see how the sage rats are coming along in about a month or so, just to keep the trigger finger in shape. For the real fun to come.

My youngest son (age 9) tells me that I am going to have some real competition now that he will be shooting a new barrel on his Contender. It is a 16" chambered in the 22 Hornet, makes a great carbine and as he grows so can the calibers. Up until now he has been limited to a 22 lr and now he feels that he is ready to step up to a center fire. We two have spent alot of time at the loading bench this winter and he to has seen to it that ever peice of Hornet brass is loaded. Man I new I had a lot of Hornet brass but I didn't know I had that much.

We will also take along a 16" .223 I may end up shooting this some at the longer ranges. The 10" Hornet will also get its chance to shine when we do some father son shooting contests, and of course the rimfires just in case the boys Hornet gets to hot and the 222 starts to melt down.

I think I may still have some 6.5 TCU brass that I could load up and what about that box of.....

Kirkned

[skb2706]

I can relate....spend many an afternoon in the company of my young son shooting prairie dogs out on the farm. Used to be I could easily 'outshoot' him.....not these days. We both started out with a 16 1/2" Contender in .221 FB that we could make hits with out past 300 yds. Nowadays we both shoot 'tricked out' Contender carbines in .204 and the range goes out at least another 150 yds.

[Rocky Raab]

Just call me, Kirkned. I'm up for any or all of that.

Lessee here, I have Contenders in 17 Ackley Bee, 218 Bee, 219 Zipper and a carbine in 221 Fireball. Then there's the rifles: the Browning Hornet, the two 788s in 223 - and in case anything mean turns up, the 25-308.

Ammo? You gotta be kidding.

Yup, I'm ready.