Praire Dog Hunting Why do you shoot them?
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This sign? Is it effective? Does it only apply to SOB’s? I suppose a land owner put this up.
Good guess - "I suppose a land owner put this up" - if local authority erected an advisory sign it would be a tiny yellow diamond and omit "SOB" and cost 20X more.
The sign, having a simple advisory, "SLOW DOWN" is intended for "SOB's", not normal gentle people, and its effectiveness would be limited by absence of LE, the "SOB's" inability to understand simple English, alcohol haze, sociopathic tendencies or excessive speed combined with sluggish cognitive processing (stupid).
The sign's effectiveness might be evaluated by the amount of dust deposited near it as compared to a site some 100 yards or so down the road. I would have liked to perform this analysis but rodent shooting had a higher priority.
I think the sign should have bright spotlights on it as many "SOB's" neglect to turn on headlights after sunset.
I like the sign because I don't like "SOB's".
The sign, having a simple advisory, "SLOW DOWN" is intended for "SOB's", not normal gentle people, and its effectiveness would be limited by absence of LE, the "SOB's" inability to understand simple English, alcohol haze, sociopathic tendencies or excessive speed combined with sluggish cognitive processing (stupid).
The sign's effectiveness might be evaluated by the amount of dust deposited near it as compared to a site some 100 yards or so down the road. I would have liked to perform this analysis but rodent shooting had a higher priority.
I think the sign should have bright spotlights on it as many "SOB's" neglect to turn on headlights after sunset.
I like the sign because I don't like "SOB's".
Why?
Because my 22-250 is really lonely without the work....
And my rancher friends out in Comanche NG ask us to come down and save them a little poisoning time.
Game they are not. Rodents and pests they are.
Stay well away from the towns and shoot long..... lest you take a risk of contracting a disease that makes C19 look like a common head cold IMO.
Don't forget to permethrin your boots too, just for a little margin of safety - that's what the rangers out there do - as do the BLM guys.
We use those pop-up deer blinds over shooting tables to keep the sun at bay, and it works really well. Keeps the dust out of your ears, and the non-friendly flying marauders out of your shirt too!
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Because my 22-250 is really lonely without the work....
And my rancher friends out in Comanche NG ask us to come down and save them a little poisoning time.
Game they are not. Rodents and pests they are.
Stay well away from the towns and shoot long..... lest you take a risk of contracting a disease that makes C19 look like a common head cold IMO.
Don't forget to permethrin your boots too, just for a little margin of safety - that's what the rangers out there do - as do the BLM guys.
We use those pop-up deer blinds over shooting tables to keep the sun at bay, and it works really well. Keeps the dust out of your ears, and the non-friendly flying marauders out of your shirt too!
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Good idea
I really don;t understand the mindset here. What difference in the cycle of life weather the P dog or gopher eats the dead ones. What possible difference could it make in your life? Who really cares ? The whole argument seems infantile to me. Don't you have something more important to think about?
Brians356
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Medice, cura te ipsum.
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The ultimate fun is a pump .22 loaded with rat shot. Take a walk thru a field and let the wing shooting commence!You shooting grasshoppers?
What would you consider minimum caliber for large insects?
Coyotefurharvester
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Permethrin on the boots, pant cuffs. I usually bring a piece of carpet for prone bipod shooting, underside gets sprayed also. If they don't get shot, landowners poison them.
Cecil S.
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And maybe this is not the site for you. JMHO
. Any more questions?
Yeah, we like to get things RIGHT!
Funny one for you sw282 -- a few years ago some buddies and I were shooting p-dogs in Dakota. My son lives not far away and drove up one day to join us. When he walked up I pointed to one about 400 yds out on a hillside and told him to sit down to my rifle (6.5 with an NXS on it, neither of which he had ever shot before) and pop him. The Marines had taught him how to shoot so he knew the basics. I told him it was zeroed for 100, but was figuring he had little chance of actually hitting the squirrel.
Well, he shoots and nails the sucker solid the first shot. Everyone was congratulating him on the shot and someone said something like, "It's good to know the guys protecting the country are being taught to shoot so well!" I asked him how much he held over. He said "2 mils."
I said, "Really. That's interesting because it is an MOA reticle." He was dumbfounded, and I was befuddled, to say the least.
BUT, he had left the SFP scope, which synched at 22x, down around 8x which meant the lines did, in fact, subtend close to a mil each, so it all worked out perfectly!
As I have said many times, every bullet has to go somewhere!
No p-dogs were observed eating any other p-dogs that trip, either. I say these guys have perverted imaginations and they should quit trying to make cannibals out of my cuddly, furry little buddies!
Here is my son shooting that same rifle a year later, but with a different scope.
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bowfisher
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As to the reasons I shoot PD's, I'm not going to list at this time, but the fact that they can be cannibalistic has no regard one way or the other.
First of all, in hard times, almost any mammal species still in existence has been known to practice intra-speice elimination. Traveling mammals mammals, bear lion etc, the males will kill offspring of females that aren't their own, in colony varmints, the females seem to be the ones who practice the infanticide of other litters. It's strictly about competition, if it's a drought and the grass isn't readily available, you must eliminate some competition or everyone will starve to death. Simple as that. Humans are no different, not sure why that should be news to anyone, unless they are clueless about their surroundings and given instincts..
I have seen PD's nibble and eat on a previously shot PD, but IMO, they are merely eating the half digested greens, the stomach, intestinal contents of their former comrade. I've witnessed numerous times, the splattering of blood on a live PD, from his unfortunate litter mate, and he will run around and wipe himself off on the vegetation, then after drying off, go back and eat some greens that flew out of his buddy. I've never seen one pick up a drumstick from his buddies hind leg and eat it like a chicken wing...not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't seen it. It's always been gut contents.
Ground squirrels are another matter.
First of all, in hard times, almost any mammal species still in existence has been known to practice intra-speice elimination. Traveling mammals mammals, bear lion etc, the males will kill offspring of females that aren't their own, in colony varmints, the females seem to be the ones who practice the infanticide of other litters. It's strictly about competition, if it's a drought and the grass isn't readily available, you must eliminate some competition or everyone will starve to death. Simple as that. Humans are no different, not sure why that should be news to anyone, unless they are clueless about their surroundings and given instincts..
I have seen PD's nibble and eat on a previously shot PD, but IMO, they are merely eating the half digested greens, the stomach, intestinal contents of their former comrade. I've witnessed numerous times, the splattering of blood on a live PD, from his unfortunate litter mate, and he will run around and wipe himself off on the vegetation, then after drying off, go back and eat some greens that flew out of his buddy. I've never seen one pick up a drumstick from his buddies hind leg and eat it like a chicken wing...not saying it doesn't happen but I haven't seen it. It's always been gut contents.
Ground squirrels are another matter.
Give it a rest man.I say these guys have perverted imaginations and they should quit trying to make cannibals out of my cuddly, furry little buddies!
sw282
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Nice benches KY. Store bought or home built?Yeah, we like to get things RIGHT!
Funny one for you sw282 -- a few years ago some buddies and I were shooting p-dogs in Dakota. My son lives not far away and drove up one day to join us. When he walked up I pointed to one about 400 yds out on a hillside and told him to sit down to my rifle (6.5 with an NXS on it, neither of which he had ever shot before) and pop him. The Marines had taught him how to shoot so he knew the basics. I told him it was zeroed for 100, but was figuring he had little chance of actually hitting the squirrel.
Well, he shoots and nails the sucker solid the first shot. Everyone was congratulating him on the shot and someone said something like, "It's good to know the guys protecting the country are being taught to shoot so well!" I asked him how much he held over. He said "2 mils."
I said, "Really. That's interesting because it is an MOA reticle." He was dumbfounded, and I was befuddled, to say the least.
BUT, he had left the SFP scope, which synched at 22x, down around 8x which meant the lines did, in fact, subtend close to a mil each, so it all worked out perfectly!
As I have said many times, every bullet has to go somewhere!
No p-dogs were observed eating any other p-dogs that trip, either. I say these guys have perverted imaginations and they should quit trying to make cannibals out of my cuddly, furry little buddies!
Here is my son shooting that same rifle a year later, but with a different scope.
Most fun, and entertainment you can have with your clothes on. You should see the videos.
Good old Cabela's "Big Game" tables. They come with pockets on each side but we cut them off as the flapping in the wind movement concerns the p-dogs.
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