Awesome Trip to Q Creek Ranch

Wow all I can say is that our vacation out to Mills Wyoming was AWESOME!  We were guided by the great folks at Q Creek Ranch.  We shot prairie dogs for 3 days and went fly fishing for one.  All I can say is that the trip was far more rewarding than I had expected.

The longest shot I made on P-Dogs was 505 yards with my dads Mauser 98 in .22-250

The longest shot of the trip was recorded as 621 by our buddy and resident gunsmith Danny Robbins

I met three new friends ranging in age from 38 to 71.  They were all great guys!

The guides were awesome. Thanks Tad, Chad and Travis for a great time!

View from the front porch of the hunting lodge!

Gordon dressed and ready to go!

My first trout on a fly rod - 4-5 LB rainbow held by Travis

One of the ponds we fished - Beautiful

Practice, practice, practice

We shot some rounds down range yesterday afternoon.  I wanted to shoot for two reasons:

1.  See how the other men handles their guns safety wise.

2.  Get to know the other men going shooting with us.   There are 5 of us going.  I only know one of them well.  So it was good to see how everyone is, and how they interact.  I'd say that we are going to get along just fine.

Oh yeah, we had fun shooting too!

Almost Ready

Needing to practice shooting the two rifles I am taking to Q Creek Ranch, so I went to the local 25 yard range to play around.  They work great same jagged hole for 10 rounds.  Looking so forward to going on a vacation this year.  I wish my dad was still up for the trip, I would have gladly paid his way if he would have agreed to come.

 I am hoping my nephew can go with us next year.

I will post pics and such as I can on the trip.

Leaving in two weeks

Just sent all our ammo to Wyoming for the trip in a couple weeks.  Along with the green rifle, I will be taking along a WWII era Mauser in .22-250 that my dad customized in the late '60's early '70's.  Looking forward to the trip.

I wish my dad could go but he can't travel anymore like that, so I will call out his name when I get the first one with his rifle.

Loaded for Prairie Dog!

Last Fall my dad gave my brother and I all of his old gun tools and bullet reloading equipment.  Over the past few months I have put together a reloading area in my basement shop.  It is away from my other wood working area to help minimize the dust if that is possible.  Loaded up 200 ct. of .223 Remington with a 55 grain soft point bullets.

The load is .223 Rem with 55 grain PSP.  The primer is a Remington #6 1/2 small rifle primer with 24.5 grains of IMR 3031 powder.

Below are the results of my first foray into bullet reloading: