Sharps Shooter
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"me and my father hope to move to Idaho"
"204, if you talking about mostly shooting prairie dogs"
Good luck shooting prairie dogs in Idaho.
I've lived here for 55 years - I'm 59, but I spent 4 years away while I was in the service. The only prairie dogs I've seen in Idaho were in zoos.
You heard right other than about the prairie dogs though Anthony B. - there are quite a few varmints in Idaho. Mostly you're talking rockchucks (the western version of groundhogs) and ground squirrels in the spring. Then there's always coyote hunting.
Personally I like my .223 for varmints. I load my own, so it's 6's as far as the cost of ammo goes between a .223 and a .204.
There's a lot to be said for the .243 though when you concider you can shoot rockchucks with it in the spring, deer in the fall, and coyotes in the winter. A .243 is plenty even for Idaho's big mule deer. You could use a .243 for the little ground squirrels that dot the fields around here by the thousands in the spring. But I prefer to shoot them with something that makes less racket and has less recoil. Even my .223 seems a bit much when I'm sitting next to other hunters picking off those gopher sized varmints with .22LRs, .22 Magnums and .22 Hornets.
"204, if you talking about mostly shooting prairie dogs"
Good luck shooting prairie dogs in Idaho.
I've lived here for 55 years - I'm 59, but I spent 4 years away while I was in the service. The only prairie dogs I've seen in Idaho were in zoos.
You heard right other than about the prairie dogs though Anthony B. - there are quite a few varmints in Idaho. Mostly you're talking rockchucks (the western version of groundhogs) and ground squirrels in the spring. Then there's always coyote hunting.
Personally I like my .223 for varmints. I load my own, so it's 6's as far as the cost of ammo goes between a .223 and a .204.
There's a lot to be said for the .243 though when you concider you can shoot rockchucks with it in the spring, deer in the fall, and coyotes in the winter. A .243 is plenty even for Idaho's big mule deer. You could use a .243 for the little ground squirrels that dot the fields around here by the thousands in the spring. But I prefer to shoot them with something that makes less racket and has less recoil. Even my .223 seems a bit much when I'm sitting next to other hunters picking off those gopher sized varmints with .22LRs, .22 Magnums and .22 Hornets.
