NRA4LIFE
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OK, so my dad, 2 brothers and I hunted the MT deer opener last week and to make a long story short, we filled 8 deer tags and 2 antelope tags by the 2nd morning. My dad and I filled all 6 of ours the first day. WOW. After cutting, wrapping and taking our meat to be frozen, we had a couple days to kill. On one of those days, we took a drive looking for some new deer country. At one point, we came across this open area where there were small creatures running EVERYWHERE. Having never seen this before, I quickly realized we were in the midst of a MASSIVE p-dog town. This stretched on and off along this dirt road for miles, probably 6 or 7 miles in all. As we had no plans for hunting, I had only about 12 or 13 rounds for my trusty .243 and my dad had not even brought his rifle with him. Until then, I kind of really never had an inkling to go shoot prairie dogs. Until now. I ended dusting about a half dozen of the little vermin before I had only 2 or 3 rounds left that I wanted to save for other vermin had they made an appearance.
I found it hard to believe in some of the other threads when you all would boast about the volume of ammunition that you expended and how many p-dogs were taken out in a good days work. Now I understand. Had we put our minds to it, I could see shooting several hundred rounds in a day, EASY. Dang was that a riot. Turns out, after talking with one of the ranchers, they are more than happy to have you rid them of the little buggers too.
Is this a good reason to buy a new rifle? The .243 seemed like shear overkill and the only other smaller centerfire rifle I own is a mini-14 and given that thing's accuracy, I'd be better off throwing rocks at them. I have a boat load of .223 brass, maybe a highly accurate .223 may be in order. Hmmmmmm, what to do, what to do.
I found it hard to believe in some of the other threads when you all would boast about the volume of ammunition that you expended and how many p-dogs were taken out in a good days work. Now I understand. Had we put our minds to it, I could see shooting several hundred rounds in a day, EASY. Dang was that a riot. Turns out, after talking with one of the ranchers, they are more than happy to have you rid them of the little buggers too.
Is this a good reason to buy a new rifle? The .243 seemed like shear overkill and the only other smaller centerfire rifle I own is a mini-14 and given that thing's accuracy, I'd be better off throwing rocks at them. I have a boat load of .223 brass, maybe a highly accurate .223 may be in order. Hmmmmmm, what to do, what to do.
