09 July 2007

West Texas Evenings

The evenings in West Texas are awesome. Around 8:00 PM it starts to cool off. I love 80 degrees and 13% humidity. A slight breeze blowing makes it a perfect evening. My buddy shows up and says "Lets take the jeep out and have some fun"

We load up, go pick up another a buddy and were off enjoying the West Texas evening. We are going down this dirt road and we come to a wet spot. I navigate through with no problems. We stop at this field where a Deer feeder is set up. We are watching the wildlife. We spooked a wild turkey coming down the road. There are Deer milling around the feeder waiting for it to go off. To bad their wait is in vain. The hunters haven't started feeding yet. There are tens of rabbits hopping around. It is a beautiful setting then my buddy lets off with his CZ 57 .223 and annihilates a Jack Rabbit. The game is on.

We spent 4 hours running about in the Cotton and Wheat field. All total we got about 70 rabbits. We jumped two coyotes in the brush but we couldn't keep up with them. The ground was too rough to go fast so i lost them. A coyote will haul ass when he has a .223 shooting at him.

Apparently the rabbits has just berthed a summer crop. There were hundreds of baby rabbits every where. I bet i could fit 2 of them in the palm of my hand. Those little shits are a hard target. We had some super hot rounds and when they impacted on a big jack, the pink mist was awesome.

Got home around midnight and the wife asked how it was. She is not too keen on us going out and killing rabbits for fun. I told her about the little babies and she asked how i could shoot a little baby rabbit. I said easy, you just don't lead them as far.

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