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  • Old Gunny
    Like you D-12 I use a .243 Win- 55 grain Hornady moly-tips, Leupold Vari-X-111 scope- shots range from 200 to 400 yards (Kadoka area S.D.- about the same time the bikers gather in August in Sturgis. Great fotos from the thread host- reminds me of a remark from Jim Rikhoff- believe he is a NRA "Honcho" now- he was invited to some fancy-schmancy NY City shin-dig- a society lady, after being told that Jim was a serious hunter- said "Mr. Rikhoff, why do you shoot God's creatures instead of paper targets at a gun range?" To which Jim replied- "Oh, I don't know, guess I just like to hear the 'whack" of a bullet hitting some solid flesh every now and then- sorta calms down my nerves."
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  • AHansen
    Do you think he heard the boom?[:D]
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by Old Gunny
    [br...a society lady, after being told that Jim was a serious hunter- said "Mr. Rikhoff, why do you shoot God's creatures instead of paper targets at a gun range?" To which Jim replied- "Oh, I don't know, guess I just like to hear the 'whack" of a bullet hitting some solid flesh every now and then- sorta calms down my nerves."


    That, my friend, is priceless.
    I tell people that burnt gunpowder acts as a mild sedative for me.

    But I like Jim's response better.
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  • frog21
    That was unreal,what the heck was used ?
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  • Maalox
    As the Bill Murray character said in the movie Stripes

    "Blowed up sir" [:)]
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  • cowdoc
    done that many many times. nos bal tips are great!
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  • FrancF
    Just a tad high[:D](ribbing ya[;)])

    I love a good varmint shoot! Now If they were CA Ground squirrels there would be six more coming out of that hole looking for lunch thats just been served.[:D]
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by AHansen
    Do you think he heard the boom?[:D]

    Nope.
    And I'm more than reasonably certain he didn't feel it, either.

    Two words.

    Impact.
    Gymnastics.
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  • dan kelly
    i just cant help clicking on this topic and looking at the oictures again and again....i love it!!! ive printed `em out and next time im at the discount shop im gonna buy some cheap frames and hang `em on the wall...this is the most amazing thing i`ve seen in years!! [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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  • FrancF
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink


    Two words.

    Impact.
    Gymnastics.



    [:D][:D][:D][:D]ROFLMAO
    I haven't heard that one before.+1[:p]
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by FrancF
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink


    Two words.

    Impact.
    Gymnastics.

    [:D][:D][:D][:D]ROFLMAO
    I haven't heard that one before.+1[:p]


    Well, if ya ever get stateside, mate, look one of us up here in the Wild West. I'm sure somebody (m'self included) would have a fine time taking you prairie doggin'.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    a good friend of mine was telling me about his trip last year dog hunting, he was using a 22-250, he said as soon as one exploded another would run out and grab it, and start eating and in the process making another target
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  • dan kelly
    thanks colonel...i would love to go hunting them..it looks like a lot of fun. [8D][:D]...ive been thinking of going there for a holiday for a fair while now...but i`ll wait until your winter is over...the temperatures you have there would kill me [:)]
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by dan kelly
    thanks colonel...i would love to go hunting them..it looks like a lot of fun. [8D][:D]...ive been thinking of going there for a holiday for a fair while now...but i`ll wait until your winter is over...the temperatures you have there would kill me [:)]

    Yeah. We woke up to thirteen below zero Farenheit this morning.
    And the furnace was conked out at work.
    I'll take a hundred degrees (F)on the prairie any day.
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    a good friend of mine was telling me about his trip last year dog hunting, he was using a 22-250, he said as soon as one exploded another would run out and grab it, and start eating and in the process making another target

    I use a 22-250, too. I've seen them run away from a recently deceasednewly exploded dog, then run back sniff, bolt away a foot or so, run back then start chattering at the carcass. It's as if they're saying, "Jim! What the HELL, man! Jim! quit playing aroun---TWHOCK!" The sound of a 55-grain Nosler hitting a prairie dog is unforgettable
    I've always used ballistic tips, so I've never gotten two-for-one. But I've rolled several off a hill, using pieces of their erstwhile companions.
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  • spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink

    ...

    I've actually watched smug, self-important prairie-dog protectionists brought to a sputtering halt with this comment,
    "You know what I've never heard anyone say?, 'Boy I sure do miss those passenger pigeons'"
    Works every time.


    I generally favor the conservation of species and subspecies, but I've got to admit, that one about the passenger pigeons made me laugh pretty hard.

    I will say that dog towns provide critical habitat for a lot of other pretty cool species, like the burrowing owl, the black-footed ferret and some (non-game) birds. In my experience, they do look like weed-infested moon-scapes. I can understand why ranchers don't like them.
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by spurgemastur
    quote:Originally posted by Colonel Plink

    ...

    I've actually watched smug, self-important prairie-dog protectionists brought to a sputtering halt with this comment,
    "You know what I've never heard anyone say?, 'Boy I sure do miss those passenger pigeons'"
    Works every time.


    I generally favor the conservation of species and subspecies, but I've got to admit, that one about the passenger pigeons made me laugh pretty hard.

    I will say that dog towns provide critical habitat for a lot of other pretty cool species, like the burrowing owl, the black-footed ferret and some (non-game) birds. In my experience, they do look like weed-infested moon-scapes. I can understand why ranchers don't like them.


    I'm no Buffalo Bill Cody, either. But I just hate it when people try to tell me that Black-Tailed prairie dogs are (or should be considered) endangered.
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  • Old-Colts
    Reminds me of the first thing I killed with my M77 Ruger 243 back when I was in college. It was a big white heron and I can still remember the white explosion of feathers and loud pop when the 65 grain hollow point hit it, the mist drifting down the lake, and like in the picture a body section flying through the air.
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  • cowdoc
    spurge master there is no grass left in a dog town for cattle to graze and at grassland going near 1,000.00 dollars an acre...take for example my neighbor who has over 400 acres of them right next to my back yard at my farm.....is what could be 400,000.00 dollars is near worthless.
    and during these dry years we have had here they did kill the grass in alot of that dog town black like a summer fallowed field. now it is just a few gum weed plants here and there....the buffalo grass could even take it.
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  • matwor
    Try this site......

    www.dogbegone.com
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  • mrseatle
    dern, they sell for $60 at the Pet Shop here in Houston, when they're in stock.
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  • jethro
    That is a great pic!!
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  • Huntingnerd33
    That's AWESOME!!
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  • Old Gunny
    Back to Col. Plink. Glad you liked the quote from Brother Rikhoff. Some day my son-in-law (he has a new Ruger heavy barrel M77 in 22-250 with a Swift varmint scope in Ruger rings- I put a Timney trigger in it for him- that scope will let you count the hairs on a dead rat's ass at 500 yards on a clear day- we mainly zap woodchucks, but want to shoot some pasture "dawgs" before PETA and the other "anti's" get going on varmints-we are thinking about S.D., eastern MT- that sector. I didn't know that they ate their dead comrades, as dump and junkyard rats do- also I hear sharks come to feast on their kin when they smell blood- read that Ernest Hemingway kept a Thompson .45ACP on his fishing boat- the Pilar- and loved to kill sharks in the Gulfstream waters-
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  • Colonel Plink
    quote:Originally posted by Old Gunny
    Back to Col. Plink. Glad you liked the quote from Brother Rikhoff. Some day my son-in-law (he has a new Ruger heavy barrel M77 in 22-250 with a Swift varmint scope in Ruger rings- I put a Timney trigger in it for him- that scope will let you count the hairs on a dead rat's ass at 500 yards on a clear day- we mainly zap woodchucks, but want to shoot some pasture "dawgs" before PETA and the other "anti's" get going on varmints-we are thinking about S.D., eastern MT- that sector. I didn't know that they ate their dead comrades, as dump and junkyard rats do- also I hear sharks come to feast on their kin when they smell blood- read that Ernest Hemingway kept a Thompson .45ACP on his fishing boat- the Pilar- and loved to kill sharks in the Gulfstream waters-


    In some places tht I've hunted, the 22-250 I shoot must've sounded like ringin' a dinner bell for several species of hawks. Sometimes, the hawks would be so thick out on a prairie dog town that you'd have to hold fire and let 'em eat their fill so you wouldn't accidently shoot them. The problem with that is; the hawks would sometimes ingest lead with the meal you just served up. Which couldn't have been good for them.
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