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Prarie Dogs

MT_Mopar

MT_Mopar

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It war with the little bastards! They are tearing the crap out of everything and turning our pastures into nothing but dirt with holes.

Over the ridge there are approx. 1000 that the people will not allow us to shoot. Problem is, they are comming my way. :angryfire:

I monitor their activity from my kitchen window, if activity is observed they are targeted for elimination. Usally takes about 15-20 mins for them to pop up after they think they are safe.

My forward operating base:

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let em a little closer and use an air rifle that shoots over 1000fps, thats powerful enough for a humane kill and it's quiet
 
cwhubb said:
let em a little closer and use an air rifle that shoots over 1000fps, thats powerful enough for a humane kill and it's quiet
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I am using a Ruger 10-22LR, 3X9 scope that shoots like a laser. Inside the blind I have a chair with Stoney Creek bi-pod shooting sticks. It is VERY effective. The blind has been up for 2 weeks now so they are not afraid of it at all.
 
Anything under 100 yards ain't sporting. 223 does blow em up nicely. You using hand loads, or factory ammo ? What grain bullets ?
 
In the late 60's I "summered" in Stanford MT at my grandparents place. One of the local ranchers hired me to shoot as may gophers as I could and I got paid $.05 a head. It was a really fun job until the alfalfa needed to be cut, baled and stacked. I kept my single shot 22 rifle with me and managed to pick off a few more from the seat of the tractor though.
 
It use to be cheep shooting a 1022 the last time I bought a box of 500 rounds it was $70.00 including tax and that was at a gun show at the Cow palace end of last year. I can't find any 22 rounds at the sporting goods or gun shops around me. If you have time and stand in line at 6:00am when a shipment comes in you might get 1 box. lately I have been shooting my air rifles I can get 200 round for about $6.50. Enjoy the shooting.
 
Personally? I prefer a 22-250 for them buggers. Does a real nice job of imploding them...cr8crshr/Tuck
 
I used this with success in Colorado: Plug up as many of the holes as you can. Leave one open. Get a 20lb. Propane tank with a hose and fill the tunnel from the open hole. Seal the hole around a piezo igniter on an 8' stick. When you trigger it the concussion will take care of most of them. The earth muffles the noise. All you see is the rise and fall of the dirt over the tunnels. A lot less time consuming than picking them off with a .17 caliber, but not near as much fun. Good luck...
 
Shooting them is sure fun but they will win in the end. If you really want to wipe them out get a 5 gallon bucket of double bubble bubble gum and spread it around the town, in the wrappers. The little bastards love it but they can't pass it. They die of the piles. Kind of harsh but it works and is cheap.

I hope nobody from PETA reads this.
 
Up here it's the fu*king moles that destroy yards and pastures. I've gotten pretty good at trapping the little bastards but it's not nearly as much fun as popping prairie dogs.
 
Prairie dogs are nasty vermin that a certain element of humans think are "cute". Sorry, they are pests in the worst sense. They cause injury to livestock and people alike, and are spreaders of many diseases. All prairie dogs deserve to die. If a p i t a idiot is reading this, so much the better.
 
Actually, prairie dogs are an important part of the food chain. Eliminate them and you'll find out just how many other animals depend on them and if you do some research, you might also find out that they are not really pests and there are other ways to deal with them other than killing them off.
 
Cranky said:
Actually, prairie dogs are an important part of the food chain. Eliminate them and you'll find out just how many other animals depend on them and if you do some research, you might also find out that they are not really pests and there are other ways to deal with them other than killing them off.
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Correct Cranky. And the coolest thing about them is that they are all but impossible to irradicate, hense the food chain survives. Sort of a prairie cockroach.

Have you ever been on a horse at full speed chasing a stray calf and pop over a ridge into a prairie dog town that wasn't there a month ago? It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "pucker factor", not to mention a horse with a broken leg, grass damage, etc.

Unlimited supply of targets in my opinion.
 
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