Blood Sweep (2015)
“A search had turned up nothing else in the rear compartment—no clothing, no maps, no food, not even a candy wrapper.
He snapped the latches and opened the rifle case. For a long moment, he knelt quietly, one hand on the case cover, the other relaxed on his knee.
“You think that’s the one?” Sutherland asked. Torrez didn’t reply. He slipped a gloved index finger under the barrel and raised it until he could bend down and sniff the aroma—rich and recent, a tangy odor as yet uncut with solvents or oil. The muzzle itself was threaded for half an inch to accept a suppressor, and that ten-inch black tube lay in its own nest in the foam case liner.
Without touching anything else, he lowered the rifle back in place. He knew ranchers who routinely used suppressors on their varmint rifles—whether the suppressor was legally owned or not wasn’t a concern. More effective with sub-sonic ammunition, the suppressors still muted the rifle’s report enough that the whole prairie dog town woul...dn’t dive for cover from a shot fired from four or five hundred yards away.MoreLess
He snapped the latches and opened the rifle case. For a long moment, he knelt quietly, one hand on the case cover, the other relaxed on his knee.
“You think that’s the one?” Sutherland asked. Torrez didn’t reply. He slipped a gloved index finger under the barrel and raised it until he could bend down and sniff the aroma—rich and recent, a tangy odor as yet uncut with solvents or oil. The muzzle itself was threaded for half an inch to accept a suppressor, and that ten-inch black tube lay in its own nest in the foam case liner.
Without touching anything else, he lowered the rifle back in place. He knew ranchers who routinely used suppressors on their varmint rifles—whether the suppressor was legally owned or not wasn’t a concern. More effective with sub-sonic ammunition, the suppressors still muted the rifle’s report enough that the whole prairie dog town woul...dn’t dive for cover from a shot fired from four or five hundred yards away.MoreLess
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