24 April 2004, 04:07
Sheldon Charron
Seriously though, it was very windy that day. We had the windscreen on and it was still brutal. I was very lucky to have made that shot. Hell, I was very lucky he stuck around. We had stalked him across two meadows, across a river, over a hill. He kept running off and stopping. We kept pressing him and used a washed out portion of the field that was kind of like a ditch to make our final approach to 300 meters. We then sat down for a while and let him relax. I extended my bi-pod legs so they wouoldn't make noise once I got into position and all I'd have to do is lower the legs away from the barrel. We then made the final stalk. When he turned away, I lowered the legs and slid around to the front of the bush we were hiding behind. Luckily the sun was also behind us, which meant i could sit in the shade and when the ram looked back he was staring into the sun low on the horizon behind us. He started to walk away, so I took a tight angled quartering away shot. I got real lucky as I almost shot underneath him. My rifle was zeroed for about 150 yards.