What?? No prairie dog hunters

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My favorite pastime is shooting praire dogs with 223's or 22-250's. It's May and their thick with little ones that surround the mound.
 
they put a season on them here in arizona, cant legally shoot them till june 16th.....i did just stumble onto a huge town though so they will be in trouble when the season opens
 
Our 2nd home in NV has prarie dogs all around it. Shot many with a air rifle. We have a few other homes 5 or 6 hundred yards from us in all directions so a firearm is too dangerous to discharge.
 
Hey Steve in St. John, I'm in Wichita and would like to try 'dogs, but where around here? Can you get on that big 'dog town North of St. John?
 
yea colorado keeps having prairie dogs getting sick about 5 years ago lots of the dogs got bubonic plague and died everywhere, yes bubonic plague. dont wrry the plague is near harmless if you see a doctor these days, so they tell me.......
 
I wanna shoot some! I'm in Colorado too, and the little bastards seem to thrive in the urban areas. Every vacant lot is loaded with 'em.
 
i actually stumbled into a big town (literally) the ground gave out under my foot and i ate dirt. Once that stupid season opens its going to be a bad day to be a PD. This town is kinda far away from roads too so i think it will be a super awesome low pressure town.
 
I cut my teeth shooting in rifle shooting going after prairie dogs on the ranches in southeast Colorado. In my opinion, it is some of **the** best long-range shooting training you can give yourself.

When it came time to go on my first African safari this past March, the skills I learned on those very same Colorado ranches gave me a huge edge in the African bushveld. I shot a Rowland Ward record book-quality steenbok, head-on perspective (and if you've ever seen one of these tiny creatures, they've got a chest only about 4" across between the shoulders) at 273 yards lasered range. There's no doubt that shot was a miss without all of the practice I got blasting pdogs on the open range.

If you want to see the exact African critter I'm referring to, scroll down on this page - you'll see me sitting cross-legged next to a little red deer looking thing with the skinny, straight horns (top row of pics, 2nd one in from the right):

http://www.genextadventures.com/default.asp?iId=JDDIE
 
My Daughter and I are going to SD in June to shoot AT the little Varmints. Hooked up with a ranchers son last year and had a great time so we are going back again. We camp out on the river bottoms at their place with a few other people and shoot for three or four days. Taking .222 Rem, 22-250, 6mm Rem and .257 Roberts this year and lots of ammo.
 
Blackrock - that's gonna be a hoot. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to join me on these trips (she turns three on May 30). I've never done the camping this while pdog hutning - sounds like a great way to add to the experience.

I'm heading up to SD for Memorial Day weekend with a very similar loadout: .223, .22-250 and 6mm Rem. My wife's cousin is dying to put a few notches in his new AR-15, so I am obliged to come up there and help give him and the sod poodles a workout.
 
Six Gun, make sure your cousin picks up his AR brass as the SD ranchers that I have come to know and respect don't really like to find it laying around in their pastures. One rancher in particular will not permit you to shoot if you are using a semi-auto.
 
Avid rat shooter here. 4 Dedicated rigs in .17 HM2 (in town gun), .22 Hornet (semi-rural gun), .17 Rem. (low wind days) and .220 Swift.

Few things as satisying as scoring hits on God's little bio-degradeable pop-up targets.
 
I hear you on that, fineredmist. I'm sure there are plenty of guys who've made a bad name for themselves and all of us by not policing their brass. In our case, reloading is crucial to the operation. We do everything in our power to ensure that not a single piece escapes, both because we want to reload it and because it's the right thing to do. Nothing say "I'm an a-hole" like getting permission to shoot on someone's land and then mucking it up.
 
I hear ya. I lived in Pennsylvania for years and primarily in areas where you straight-up not allowed to discharge firearms outdoors. Coming to the midwest and having Colorado and South Dakaota within driving range completely changed all of that. I didn't realize what I was missing until I got on board with some fellows from another forum to hit up the pdog fields. I take no greater pleasure in scorching my barrel than doing it over a 'dog town.
 
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