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May 2000 Winner:
Bob Williamson
Each year I look forward
to traveling to the upper northeastern part of California to the town
of Cedarville--one of the best Belding ground squirrel hunting areas
in the West.
Beldings are sort of a cross
between a squirrel, gopher, and prairie dog. Needless to say the ranchers
are not real found of them and invite shooters to help reduce their
population. Shooting is mainly from benches and the range can be from
20 feet to 500+ yards. In other words, they are all over the place.
On this trip, I took
my new pride and joy, a Bullberry Encore 6BR Stainless, match .262 chamber,
20 inch Bull Barrel with a Mesquite stock. I sighted the 6BR in
at 200 yards dead on and also shot a 2 shot group at 300 to see how
it would do.
In 2 days, I shot over
100 squirrels at over 200 yards with the Bullberry Encore.
My longest confirmed
hit was at 450 yards.
I shot 20 or so at 100-200
yards but it was so automatic that I saved my remaining shots for the
longer ranges. It is really a great feeling to have so much confidence
when shooting that you actually know youÁre going to hit what you aim
at.
I would have shot more but
I only had 150 rounds prepared.
My loadÁs are: Lapua 6BR
brass, Rem. BR primers, 32.3 gr.Ás of N-135, with either the 55 Nosler
BT, or the 66 Starke BR. All of them shoot exceptionally. The short
bull barrel makes it easy to pan the field looking for squirrels through
the scope.
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