Carnage & Mayhem...Prairie Dog Shoot

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Thursday afternoon there was prairie dog mayhem and carnage in a short period of time. 3 dogs with the 357 FR and one with Chris Rhodes customized S&W 44 Mag, and then around 50 with my 6x47 XP-100/70 Nosler NBT's.


I killed that small prairie dog standing, offhand, with no artificial support, at 125 yards with Chris's S&W Model 29DX that both Chris and Ken Kelly has done work on.
I don't shoot iron sighted handguns off-hand without support very often...But when I do, I sometimes get lucky!


Being near-sighted and wearing my glasses, presents problems for me shooting irons. I'm just past mid-50, and my eyes will not focus through the magnification for things up close, like front sights or reading. I take my glasses off for reading and computer work. If I would have shot with safety glasses on, I would have been able to focus on the front sight just fine, but I wouldn't be able to see the pd good enough or at all (he was a little one).
If I can see it clearly, dot sight or scope, I can hit it. I don't do that much off-hand practice, but shooting is shooting. Chris's revolver was easy to shoot.

I think the longest shot with my Franken Ruger was around 150 yards or so. I kind of sighted in the Franken Ruger while I was shooting at prairie dogs.

The longer shots I made with my XP were around 300 yards or maybe a little bit further than that, but nothing longer than 350 yards.
This was all close range killing shooting off the bog Gear-with the PSR top. Once I put down the revolvers, I knocked off those 50ish pd’s in less than 2 hours with the XP from the seated position.






It has been awhile since I have done close range pd’s with my XP’s. Had a great time.
Chris was killing stuff with the S&W 44 Mag, His SA 22lr revolver (iron sights), and his Dominator in 357 Bains and Davis. Chris is absolutely deadly with his Dominator!

We didn’t even start to gather up all of the dogs for pics.
 
Awesome read; awesome shooting. It makes me miss hunting with my Contenders and Encores pistols! Thanks for sharing.

Geno
 
Please don't stray from intent of this simple question and jump on defensive. No I am definitely not with Peta or any animal group!!!
I know prairie dog holes are extremely dangerous to horses and cattle and that farmers consider them a pest. In the Southeast USA we have muskrats that cause ditch bank erosion.
Questions:
1) What are other major problems prairie dogs cause to make them such a major pest?
2) Do hunters and others eat them? (I trapped muskrats as a kid selling the pelts for money and sometimes eating the meat. But then I cooked and tried most all the animals I shot just to prove I could do it. Bagging rites so to say as a 12 year old kid)
 
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If you see all of those pocmarks in the background of the pics?
Those are all active pd mounds. The Govt hasn't allowed shooting or poisoning for either 7 or 9 years.
I will need to check with the rancher.
They just allowed shooting in the last month.
Besides what you listed:
He was told for every 100 pd's killed, he can feed another cow.
I don't eat them.
He has a ranch/cattle and raises crops...They are a monetary threat to him.
 
So what they eat are his crops and grazing fodder for his cows, which may be an even larger lose to him than broken legs and such.
Thanks for the info and that's some great shooting!
 
So what they eat are his crops and grazing fodder for his cows, which may be an even larger lose to him than broken legs and such.
Thanks for the info and that's some great shooting!
Absolutely, they will decimate an entire pasture, luckily every now and then the plague comes through and wipes out a town, so far this is the best way to eradicate the lil blighters!
 
Thanks, should have bought one back in the mid '80's when I had a chance. At least I got an XP-100 and Contender.
 
7mm BR on the XP and all sorts of stuff on the Contender in both rifles and pistols.
 
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