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Colorado prairie dog hunting issue

I am way out of my league on this subject but on public lands my opinion is that hunting, fishing, ranching, forestry, mining, and any other exploitive activity should be regulated for the good of the resource in the long term, and in the interest of the citizens of our nation. On the other hand, what you do on private land is your business unless it has an impact on your neighbors. If you have critters on your private property that can be legally taken then by all means go for it. On public lands, maybe not so much, depending on the circumstances.
 
I am way out of my league on this subject but on public lands my opinion is that hunting, fishing, ranching, forestry, mining, and any other exploitive activity should be regulated for the good of the resource in the long term, and in the interest of the citizens of our nation. On the other hand, what you do on private land is your business unless it has an impact on your neighbors. If you have critters on your private property that can be legally taken then by all means go for it. On public lands, maybe not so much, depending on the circumstances.
This is about whacking prairie dogs and not conserving a big game species, have never gone back to a dog town and had carcasses still remaining after a day or two. With the other varmints and birds ready to feast on what is left there is not any war zone left as described above.
 
This is just more woke crap trying to be forced on us by the libtards. Any way to screw up our pastime is their ultimate goal. We shoot mostly in Orygun, not Colorado, but it's the same thing.

My crew and I spend ten days to two weeks launching ground squirrels here on private property. After a epic day of having our way with the rats, carcasses are all about, the raptors come in and start the cleaning up process while we're still shooting, the gunfire seems to attract them. By morning the next day, you'd be hard pressed to find one rat body in the alfalfa, none, zip, nada. Besides, who wants to handle a blown up sage rat infested with who knows what?

After decades of this, I've yet to see one dead raptor from 'lead poisoning' out there. Maybe they fly off and die from it? Dunno, but if they do, the 'raptor burial site' is a closely guarded secret. ;)
 
Maybe those Colorado bozos would like for us Californians to come and shoot them with our lead-free bullets that our bozos forced on us. It isn't about the bullets - it is about killing animals. From the same people who think nothing of buying mouse traps and calling for help when the coyotes eats little "cup cake".
 

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