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Prarie Dogs....

Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
Just wondering how many of you go after these. I never have. I read an article recently in the latest issue of Petersons' Hunting that stated the laws pertaining to shooting these are going to change. The reason being that the populations of these are in a sharp decline in some states. Might be worth looking at for those of you who do go after them.
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you have never shot prarie dogs, you are missing one of the best times you could leagally have. Find someone who knows how to do it, plan a all day event, take lots of ammo, and enjoy!Nothing like hearing the thud of a 22-250 hitting solid mass at 200 yards!Fire away........................
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  • travelortravelor Member Posts: 442 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I never had the oppurtunity to hunt those, as they don't occur in these parts, but let me tell you about chipmunks...have you ever hunted them? I don't mean just a pot shot at an individual, un-suspecting critter, but really hunt them?A chipmunk warren is a great thing to discover, as they work cooperatively. They are masters of deception and illusion. One will gain your attention, so the others can take cover. And in the taking of cover, they each manage to gain your attention at the opprtunistic moment that counts well for all others. Truely a worthy adversary!!!
    keep lots of extra uppers for your ar..you can change often enough to keep the thing from over heating...what ever caliber fits the moment..~Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • bucks and birdsbucks and birds Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you are interested in a dog hunt you should come to South Dakota. We seem to have plenty of them. I have a hunting lodge and we do provide these types of hunts. June through August is the best time because they are starting to put restrictions on the seasons but thats another topic. Look us up at www.badriverhunts.com
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do not forget Arizona for prairie dogs.

    B - BreatheR - RelaxA - AimS - SightS - Squeeze
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  • whiteclouderwhiteclouder Member Posts: 10,574 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No dogs, but we have lots of gophers. Little smaller and obviously not nearly as smart. We shoot them with a 22RF to make it a little more challenging. Centerfire with a scope would be way too easy.

    I'd love to try the paririe dogs, though.

    Clouder..
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My folks in Missouri have a pond, if your interested, that is stocked with water mocassins for your pinking pleasure. Actually they have an infestation problem every summer that threatens the cattle. My Mom used to carry the .410 or .22 and walk the pond waiting for the buggers to pop up. Since one slid out of a tree last year just as she walked by, she now sits in the bed of the truck waiting for them. Hubby and I enjoy popping them with our CZ-85 and Ruger .22.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Suzie, you must live in S.E. Missouri. No water mocs elsewhere.
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  • jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We dont have any dogs here. But we do have tons of ground squirrels. They are fun, I use my ruger 10/22 on them. seems too do a fine enough job.

    lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal!
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  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yep, my folks live near the bootheel, right on the edge of the Ozarks. We have all the good critters, mocs, rattlers, copperheads, you take your pick. But, it's also some wonderful deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit huntin' country.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Since I work with reptiles I like all the "good" critters. I grew up in Boone County hunting squirells and bunnies. It is about all I miss in Missouri...

    Sorry for interupting the thread guys, old home week, you know.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog, I had a friend in college who put himself through college collecting venomous snakes for anti-venom. Worked the Neuse River (NC) in a boat picking up moccasins and rattlers from the water. He invited me to join him several times, but "somehow" I never could arrange it . . . I like suzie's method a LOT better!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Iconoclast snakes have been the victims of the worst PR people since the Garden. They are really amazing beasts that have been around a long time. With about 6000 species on every continent except the southern most, they are really quite successful. I have been working with them since I was in Jr. High School, and am constantly learning new things about them. I have something over $20K invested in my library (wish I had that many gun books!) and there has been such a rash of new books in the past decade, I can no longer keep up with all of it, but must pick and choose what is most useful and most interesting. Cottonmouths have really rasty dispositions generally, and can indeed be some threat to cows drinking at the pond. Unfortunately, a lot of harmless water snakes get killed when misidentified as cottonmouths. In general, I abhor the senseless killing of things we don't like (except roaches, always open season, no bag limit!), but sometimes it is not unreasonable particularly if you do not have the training to deal safely with them live. Too bad you did not go a time or two Iconoclast, I'll bet it would have been a lively day! I promise not to bring any if we get to meet in Tulsa one day.
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  • dobieman0690dobieman0690 Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We usually go over east to Lavina Mt for a 6 day hunt every other year it gives the dogs a chance to repopulate and they dont seem so gun shy
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  • travelortravelor Member Posts: 442 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I lived neer Fort Bragg for a while, once, and there were mocasins there...cotton mouths...would come up out of the low areas to the blue berry patches, and wait for the birds to come down for dinner...I sure loved those blue berries, always took the .410 with...

    keep lots of extra uppers for your ar..you can change often enough to keep the thing from over heating...what ever caliber fits the moment..~Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets~
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  • YankeeClipperYankeeClipper Member Posts: 669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I agree. A. good dog shoot is the best day of the summer.There is a shooter that makes bullets by swedging spent .22 cases. I bought some of his 52.gr hp and the dogs came out of the holes in 3 pieces
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