Thread: Pretty stoked!

Been practising some "long range" shots in a friend property, today he told me that I can shoot as many goats I want with the condition of take it home.
On the way up the hill I came across a sheep stuck in a rose bush so I decide to untangle it. Damn good carma came quick.
As I went back to where I left my back pack I start to glass just above the place where I practice my LR shooting and "BANG"! There was a mob of 10 goats, thought it was a bit too far and decide to range it. From an off hand position my range finder read 660 meter but I was not happy with the reading because I was shaking all over the place. Got my walking stick and rest the binos/range finder on it and got a more accurate reading at 675 meters, thought in walk close but some of them start to head up hill and that was not good, so I decide "I can do it and I will shoot it from here".
I take my rifle from the back pack and set it up, I double check the range, check my ballistic app, estimate the wind and loaded the magazine in to the rifle, few thoughts passed throughout my mind but I was sure I can do it, deep breath and relax and I let the shot go, "BOOM"! Black goat down on his tracks like a potatoes bag, a excitement rush thru and I release ad and sighted another one and "BOOM" another one down, wow! What a rush!
Well, now come the part where "you"(I) need to deal with the "long range recovery"... 675 meters going up hill(straight line) with a very "soggy" ground and the weather closing in...
Like a fairy tale everything finished well, I am very happy/stoked with my shooting and can't wait to shoot some "TARGETS" at long range again, because them I don't need to recover it... Unless it is down hill, LOL!

Cheers.

Mac

Rifle configuration:
Ruger Precision Rifle caliber 6.5 Creedmoor,
Hand loads, 42gn of ADI2209, 140gn Hornady ELD-M, Federal 210M on Hornady twice fired cases.
Average velocity = 2760ft/s