I've never had more fun that prairy dogs. Brother is a Veterinarian and he worked the sandhills of NE and knew several large ranchers who gave him year round open invites to kill em all.My dads buddy was shooting 110 HP bullets from his 30-30 that he made when I was a kid. He is the guy I got my 1947 Dodge truck from.
I did get some 125gr HP bullets but have not shot a deer with them.
I keep reaching for the gun that always shoots the same hot or cold day after day fouled or clean it will stick the bullet in the same spot on the first shot.
223 savage Axis.
That gun has spoiled me.
I just changed the scope on it the other day and I am right on at 100 and 3/4" low at 200.
No excuses if I miss.
Fun pecking squirrels off.
I never been on a prairie dog shoot ..I bet that was fun.
I was young and had just bought my first house, he asked me to come visit for a 4 day weekend and told me to brink a gun for a dog shoot. I couldnt afford to buy another gun at the time and all I have was the winchester 94 so I decided to load 150 30 cal 110s and also took a .22. I had shot lots of dogs with the .22 in past visits but was bored with that. It usually left them alive long enough to crawl back in the hole. The 30-30 tossed their carcass 6' in the air (not sure of the physics involved there) and scattered their guts into the next county. It was awesome. Between us, we had 600 rnds, and a 12 pack of beer lol. Drove up, parked and shot for 3 hours. Slowly advancing the truck as we cleared them out. We estimated a 75% kill ratio...or about 450 dogs.
Good times right there.
The destruction they cause in those sandy pastures was terrible.