A prairie dog expedition

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A prairie dog expedition

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A friend and I headed out to the Red Desert country of Wyoming today to hunt some prairie dogs. Friend had never been out there before so he was impressed with the wide open spaces and the little group of 11 nice bull elk we encountered, along with the wild horses.
Prairie dogs were pretty thin this year, many many dead holes in places where they should have been thick. Dont know if it's another attack of the plague or the drought that's killed them off.
We did get some shooting, about 50 each so not a wasted day, around a hundred miles or so of dirt road and two-track. I shot my CZ527 .22 Hornet, he shot a Winchester Model 64 in .219 Zipper with a receiver sight and bead front. He zippered quite a few, anything within about 125 yards was meat in the pan. :D
All in all, a good way for two geezers to spend a summer morning, hope to go again before the snowballs fly.
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Now that sounds like a fine way to spend a day Jerry. "Zippered"? Is that kinda' similar to "unzipped"?
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earlmck wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 9:03 pm Now that sounds like a fine way to spend a day Jerry. "Zippered"? Is that kinda' similar to "unzipped"?
Yeah, I guess you could call it that. :D
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Good for you :D
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Boy how I miss hittin the dog towns every weekend! Would get a brick of 22's and shoot all day. Keep my 22-250 for long shots. I even tried my T/C Cherokee .32 just for kicks!
As you said, lots of nice country to see to & from the towns.
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Sounds like a great day. 8)
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Good report, thanks.

BTW, I have a picture of a dead New Mexico Pdog if you need it. :lol:
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Out in Southwest Kansas where I grew up, we uesd to shoot prairie dogs. The farmers and ranchers out there wanted them gone. It is pretty difficult to wipe out an entire prairie dog town, but it can be done. They get extremely cautious after being shot at. Not that I wouldn't get cautious myself if someone had been shooting at me.

A friend used to have a Ruger number 1 in 220 Swift that he used on them. It was pretty dramatic to see the bullet hit. We used to use inexpensive telescopes as spotting scopes. Not the best, but it worked. Even in an almost constant 7 to 15 mph wind, that 220 bullet got there so fast that it didn't have much time to drift. That was a lot of fun.
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How cool is that shooting poodles with a Zipper! What loads did he use? Todd
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