toddyboman Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Shooting Prairie Dogs was a blast!! We left for S. Dakota early Thursday morning about 12 hours later:eek: we arrived to our motel in Murdo S. Dakota. Friday morning we got our 3 day tag meet up with our guide and we was off. This was my first time out, my dad however has been going the past 6 years to the same place and same guide. The first town we sat up on was HUGE!!! We shot on this town all day! The only time we was not shooting was when we was either switching guns or eating lunch. I could not believe the number of dogs in this one town. We figured latter we both shoot around 500 rounds that day!:cool: Well Saturday came with no wind. NO wind allowed us to do the long range shooting which was one of the things I was wanting to do. Never thought I would ever shoot at and kill prairie dogs at 600 and 700 yards with a .223 boy was that fun!! We took out with us 13lbs of fresh catfish. So Saturday evening we along with our guide, his friends and family had a fish fry. Of course after we ate he told me to go ahead and blast away at those dogs in front of his house. Heck ya. So that night I shoot till dark which was around 9:30 - 10:00:D:cool:. Sunday was our final day of hunting/shooting. Our guide took us to a valley that was just awesome looking. Down in this valley we again was able to shoot long range but the wind was blowing a bit. Dad got out his 6mm and I got out the 25-06 and slung some lead out there to the 700 to 1000 yard range. Just to let you know how far that is, I would shoot at a prairie dog and of course there is enough recoil from the 25-06 to take the prairie dog I was shooting at out of my scope, but at that distance I had enough time to get him back in my scope with enough time to watch the bullet hit him. And boy was that great!!:D:cool: I figured I shoot between 1300 to 1400 rounds in those 3 days. Well I strongly recommend anyone that likes to shoot by all means go shoot prairie dogs. We shoot them as close as 10 ft and as far as you wanted. We saw game while we was there too like mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, coyotes, jack rabbits (man those things are BIG and fast), turkeys, pheasant, rattle snakes, and obviously prairie dogs. OK here's a few pics. I hope you can see it in these pictures but all those dirt spots are mounds and they all have lots of dogs on or around them. This was a big big town. I couldn't get the entire town in the picture. Me blasting away. The last thing many a prairie dogs witnessed.:D My view looking through the scope. That speck is my dads truck. Some pictures of the land. We was driving around one night about about 30 yards off the rode in this dead tree was all these turkeys. So we stopped took pictures. They all gobblers and they gave us a good show of strutting and gobbling on the roost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Did you know Prairie Dog could fly..... Oh well they can..:cool: Some can even do flips..:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 cool pics never knew they could fly :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 UP, UP, AND AWAY!!! LOL I remember that quite well, some even do cart wheels, and get as high as 10 feet!! I can relate to the shot, getting back on him and then...pink mist!! Glad you had fun...I need to do that again..its been at least 15 years since we went out. 22.250 is what I used, with a 20 power Leupold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 Awesome pics! Wish we had those things around here, man that'd be fun! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted June 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 22.250 is what I used, with a 20 power Leupold. Yup we took the following calibers .17 223 22-250 6mm 25-06 243. The prairie dogs loved them all.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODH Posted June 18, 2007 Report Share Posted June 18, 2007 that looks like a lot of fun. I'm thinkin bout going out to S. Dakota next summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrAzYCoYoTe Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Lol gret pics man and beautiful landscape wouldent mind goin myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 That looks like tons of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bachflock Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Flyin' ground hogs! That'll do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyderpancake Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 what was your longest shot with the .17?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hunter101 Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 those are some sweet pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted August 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 what was your longest shot with the .17?? Probably a 100 yards or less. most days the wind was blowing hard enough it didn't take much to blow that little bullet off course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Cool pics Todd. Looks like a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Awesome pics! Wish we had those things around here, man that'd be fun! :D I hear that! I could head to western okieland but we dont have any in this part of the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckslayer Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 That must have been an awesome trip!! Nice work lowering those populations and "raising dogs" haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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