6mm vs Swift on prairie dogs ?

[Hammer]

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Whos your barrel caddy?

The selection of the barrel caddy is very important. The barrel caddy should...

1. have a good eye for distance and wind.
2. be easy on your eye.
3. be good for whispering things in your ear.
4. be good at giving shoulder massages between shots
5. change clean and change your barrels.

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[CanusLatransSnpr]

I see! Like a 5'9" brunette with perky C-cups, beautiful face, and a nice tan! I think I could get used to that kind of shootin! LOL

Mike

 

[AckleymanII]

243 AI is what you are looking for........

shoot the 70g nosler Ballistic tip, 70g Speer TNT at 3700-3850 depending on barrel length and load....sends them High....High!!!!

 

[basshusker]

Re: Prarrie Dogging with hot shooting rifles..

My experiences with Prarrie Doggin has been high volume shooting. I wore out a .243 in two days and wore out a .223 in 5 days.

I had shooting between 100 yards and 900 yards. and shot on the average 1200 rounds per day. By rotating rifles (4) They could cool down. I would clean about every two hours of shooting.

I found a heavy barreled .223 with 50 grain SX bullets running about 3200fps worked well. In ten days of shooting I used just over 12,000 rounds.

Yes, shooting a .243, 220 Swift, 22.250AI, would work beautifully but barrel life and brass expense have become an factor for me.

Nat Lambeth

Can I come help you on that p-poodle town! Lotta dogs!

 

[cliffy]

6mm is silly for prairie rat shooting. A .22/250 is MORE than adequate, with a .223 Remington about PERFECT. A .220 Swift seems over-kill to me. My .243 Winchester is relegated to WOODCHUCK, but NO SMALLER. A .220 Swift seems PERFECT for twelve pound woodchucks, not two pound prairie rats. Yet, each to his own, blood-splatterwise, since a .50 BMG kills them, too. Cliffy

 

[killahog]

The choice would probably depend on what distance you Intend to shoot. I carry a 223AI for shots in the 100-350 range A 1-8 twist 220 swift for shots in the 350-750 range and A 25-06AI for shots 500-1000 yards. OO and a 22 rimfire for 20 yards to 200 yards.

 

[RJinTexas]

Cliffy, just how much p-dog shooing have you done? First off 22-250's heats up very fast in close to 100 degree heat sometime they're overheated after only firing off ten rounds. I've never owned a 220 Swift but can't imagine they wouldn't overheat easily as well. The 223 is ok as long as you stay within 300yds on windy days, where we shoot 10 to 15mph winds is considered a calm day and most of the dog towns we set up on are at 300 to 350 yds for the close in dogs. So if your going to shoot a 22 caliber I strongly recommend the 22br as it can push up to 60gr varmint bullet fast enongh and better cope with the wind without heating up so quickly.

The reasons above are why most of my p-dog rifle are 6mm of one caliber or the other. And yes believe it or not a .243 or 6mmRem will shoot 55gr to 75gr bullets extremely fast and be much slower to heat up then a 22-250. Give me a 6br shooting a 75gr Vmax out to 500yd and a 6x47L or 6mmAI on out farther then I'm capable of shooting.

I'm not saying that we don't break out the smaller calibers such as seventeen's and twenty's once in a while when we do catch a calm day. But after doing this for the past ten years I've found that 6mm's flat ass RULE.

Regards
RJ

 

[LWolken]

I'm going to go with RJ on this one. In Texas some places are brushy and distances can be close. In those areas the 22's rule but where we have been going the past five years also in Texas its wide open big sky country and winds are a force to be recondend with. The 6's rule out there, most shots are past 400yds. Yes you can hit them with a 223 but I'd rather see them fly than risk having to make a couple shots and scaring them back to their den. Last fall I took (1) 6mmbr (2) 243AI's. Left the 22's home.

Lance

 

[longshooter]

Re: Prarrie Dogging with hot shooting rifles..

My experiences with Prarrie Doggin has been high volume shooting. I wore out a .243 in two days and wore out a .223 in 5 days.

I had shooting between 100 yards and 900 yards. and shot on the average 1200 rounds per day. By rotating rifles (4) They could cool down. I would clean about every two hours of shooting.

I found a heavy barreled .223 with 50 grain SX bullets running about 3200fps worked well. In ten days of shooting I used just over 12,000 rounds.

Yes, shooting a .243, 220 Swift, 22.250AI, would work beautifully but barrel life and brass expense have become an factor for me.

Nat Lambeth

Nat,

What barrels do you prefer for your high volume shooting. I would like to start PDing, and I think barrel cost will need to be addressed.

Thank you,
Longshooter

 

[jerrschmitt]

In a 10 hour day there are 600 minutes. So if you are shooting 1200 rounds a day, you are shooting 2 rounds a minute all day long with out a break for lunch. I'd love to see that prairie dog town.

I shoot a 6BR, .223 and a .243 AI for centerfires and a 17 and 22 Rimfire. The 6BR gets the most work and to me, it's the perfect prairie dog rifle. Mine is a 14 twist but I have an 8 twist being built for this year.