Prairiedog Ready...

[Old Ironsights]

Welp... thanks to jnyork I am Prariedog ready.

What I bought was this:



What goes in my truck is This:



Only thing to add is a collapsing bipod for the front sling stud.

27" is much easier to grab from behind the seat...

[Pitchy]

cool, i have that exact same folding stock for my Ruger.
Yep your ready.

[Don McDowell]

And I happen to know where theres a dogtown you can access anytime you want and shoot for hours with 22, bigger guns put em down the hole... Just please brush up on your bovine and rodent ID charts

[oneyeopn]

I have a large Prairie Dog town that can be seen from Google Earths satellite photo's at the family farm. And this is what I take Prairie Dog hunting until I get the new scope for my Marlin 795. My 10-22 wasnt accurate enough and I traded it for my Marlin 336 30-30.


I have taken them as far out as 262 yards. But you have to be patient and only the real close ones go down the holes but they do with a .22 also. If you go to these coordinates on google earth you can see it for yourself.
37.660204,-99.736409

[ollogger]

Yup dang nice 22s there, hey we should help Don out with a little
control work some weekend

ollogger

[Old Ironsights]

Yup dang nice 22s there, hey we should help Don out with a little
control work some weekend

ollogger

Let's make a Man Date of it...

Don?

[Don McDowell]

It's over on my state lease at the end of the Kasepier oil... anytime you guys feel like you got ammo to burn, just go in the gate , follow the two track a mile east to and then about 3/4 mile north, you can't miss that dog town.
And give me a holler if you need some company.
Going to try and poison it again after Oct 1 sometime.. maybe with my new neighbor working on his side we can get a handle on the thing.

[Old Ironsights]

Well, that gives us a month before all we have to shoot are sick dogs...

I'll see what I can do.

Them prairie dogs... thems the ones that stand about 12 hands tall and say "moo"... right?

[Don McDowell]

Yeh, but the black and red ones are proctected species... can't be shooting them.
Give me a holler sometime when you got a minute to run up, if nothing is shaking big here I'll show zactly where to get to the project.

[ollogger]

O I ill call ya, Don i knew the red & black ones were protected, but what about them ones that are taller
and do that nicker thing?

ollogger

[Don McDowell]

Them are over here at the house and you wouldn't beleive how protected they are

[Old Ironsights]

Well then, all I've got to do now is zero that honkin big scope this weekend and I'll be all set.

[Don McDowell]

Bring lots of ammo..

[Old Ironsights]

I have a large variety I want to try in this gun to see what works best at the best range(s).

What's the point of a 2.5x10 variable if you can't reach out there to max range for the caliber?

[Don McDowell]

If the cows are not in the draw west of the north windmill you'll have all the distance a 22 can handle and then some, and a target rich environment.And the new owner across the north fence don't care if you shoot across that way either.

[damienph]

For non-game, prairie dogs are my favorite. Usually though I don't get too many shots with a .22LR before they go into hiding. With this however, they don't ever seem to figure out that they are being shot at.

[Don McDowell]

Shooting prairie dogs to 200 yds with a 22 they'll stay up a bunch longer and you'll get more kill, than you will with the centerfires.

[Old Ironsights]

Was looking at my county road map...

You talking about the area NE of County Line road?

I'm hoping to try for Sunday afternoon for a first attempt...

[Don McDowell]

No it's about 3 mile east of Co line rd.