Last night I was watching the winter Olympics and saw a commercial for a Chevy Suburban. The setting was in the middle of a small prairie dog town and it had prairie dogs crawling all over the new SUV. These were the biggest prairie dogs I have ever seen. I still have 60 days,and counting) until my first squirrel shoot of the year.
I have a new squirrel rig come to the gun shop today, it is a new Valquartsen .17hmr. The past two years we have been shooting dogs in Canada and Oregon and have used the .17hmr exclusively. Out to 200 yards, it works just fine and you don't have all of the fuss,noise and reloading headache) that you do when you shoot center fires.
The trick is everyone shooting, has to be shooting a .17hmr, if one guy is shooting a center fire, it will drive the dogs that are in range of the .17hmr down and you will not get any shots under 300 yards. I have shot a dog with a .17hmr at a little over 300 yards but it took 8 shots to tag him and it was not the explosive hit that you love to see.
Where are you guys going to shoot dogs this season?
Chuck
I have a new squirrel rig come to the gun shop today, it is a new Valquartsen .17hmr. The past two years we have been shooting dogs in Canada and Oregon and have used the .17hmr exclusively. Out to 200 yards, it works just fine and you don't have all of the fuss,noise and reloading headache) that you do when you shoot center fires.
The trick is everyone shooting, has to be shooting a .17hmr, if one guy is shooting a center fire, it will drive the dogs that are in range of the .17hmr down and you will not get any shots under 300 yards. I have shot a dog with a .17hmr at a little over 300 yards but it took 8 shots to tag him and it was not the explosive hit that you love to see.
Where are you guys going to shoot dogs this season?
Chuck
