Prarie Dog shooting ?
Just a quick question on whether you are against the shooting of praie dogs or for it?
I know of a heavy duty gun collector and hunter who is totally opposed to shooting an animal to just let it lay there and rot.
I know of a heavy duty gun collector and hunter who is totally opposed to shooting an animal to just let it lay there and rot.
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quote:Originally posted by MVP
Just a quick question on whether you are against the shooting of praie dogs or for it?
I know of a heavy duty gun collector and hunter who is totally opposed to shooting an animal to just let it lay there and rot.
Something will eat them. Don0 -
quote:Originally posted by dcon12
quote:Originally posted by MVP
Just a quick question on whether you are against the shooting of praie dogs or for it?
I know of a heavy duty gun collector and hunter who is totally opposed to shooting an animal to just let it lay there and rot.
Something will eat them. Don
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I am all for killing nusiant animals, such as prarie dogs, coyotes, ect. 0 -
i once heard that your not suppose to touch them...something about how many diseases they carry???
im all for shooting ANY animals...actually, i poppped a squirrel off the bird feeder this morning [}:)]0 -
It's fun to watch them explode![:D][:D][:D]
Seriously, where are you supposed to draw the line? Does this guy also oppose setting mouse or rat traps in his house? The prarie dog is a pest, it just happens to be a cute one.0 -
I read an article where there trying to sale the things as pets like Ferrets, Hedge Hogs etc. I also know if there anything like the Groundhog they cost farmers thousands of dollars every yr. 0 -
Shoot em... 0 -
I am all for shooting them also and as a 10 year old on my relatives 5500 acre ranch in Montana I was able to get my first experience in shooting those pests. It was a day I will never forget and also remember very well my uncle teaching me the value of keeping the dog town under control for the cattles sake. 0 -
I shoot 'em.
I let 'em lay.
If you're morally opposed to that, well Goodie For You.
They're pests and they wreck grazing land. Bubonic Plague wipes out more prairie dog colonies than I will ever be capable of, yet they just keep coming back and ruining pastures.0 -
I don't have a problem with it as they pretty much destroy habitat for other wildlife. Besides when I shoot them and leave them they are transformed from pests to BAIT. For Coyotes. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by dakotashooter2
I don't have a problem with it as they pretty much destroy habitat for other wildlife. Besides when I shoot them and leave them they are transformed from pests to BAIT. For Coyotes.
Well, they damage habitat for cattle, but there is a lot of wildlife (black footed ferrets, burrowing owls to name two) that rely on prairie dog colonies as suitable habitat.
I don't think you can shoot enough to make a huge difference. I do hate to see them poisoned, which can make a serious dent....and turns prairie dogs into poisonous bait for other things that might eat them.0 -
Shooting a meat animal and allowing it to waste is a crime against nature.
Shooting a prarie dog is no different then killing a rat.
The insane among us equate "A rat is a dog is a boy"...and any killing is wrong.
I don't mind them having their opinion. I merely mind them gaining control of the goverment reins of power and enforcing their insanity upon the rest of us....0 -
If they're dead, something will eat them. Whether it's a crow or a coyote, something will get an easy meal. They're a pest, same as mice or rats, and there's no point in getting disease(s) from them just to not leave them lay. I'm totally against shooting a decent animal and leaving it lay. I'm not against leaving pests to lay there and rot. 0 -
I'd love to go pdog hunting. They taste like chicken. 0 -
Spent a morning shooting prarie rats with a friend in MT just using .22 rimfires.
The next morning we went back to shoot some more and there were two Golden Eagles cleaning up the carcasses of the previous day's shoot.
The eagles tried to fly away but couldn't because they were so gorged on the little rodents.
It took them 20 minutes to hop and waddle over the ridge and out of sight.
Just a story to illustrate that the dead dogs didn't go to waste.0 -
Shoot more and shoot more often, I love to shoot them little Rats (PD)[:D][}:)][B)][8] 0 -
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Being a longtime member of PETA, I am totally offended at this thread and it's comments. [:(!]
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I have had eagles come to where we were shooting and start eating before we even stopping shooting. It is either we shoot them or the ranchers poison them and possibly other critters as well. On several trips I have had the ranchers come out to where we were shooting and beg us to stay a few more days. Usually we loan them an extra rifle and ammo and they join us. 0 -
Kill'em, kill'em good 300 win mag good [:D] 0 -
...and just WHAT has a little cute fuzzy wuzzy prarie dog ever done to you?
Just because your cattle or horse can step into a seen/unseen hole hole the little fellas dug and breaks it's leg ($$$$$), should not be taken into consideration while deciding to "explode" or "not to explode" the little guys. The cute little things have just as much right to live and cost you money as do our politicians...[;)]
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quote:Originally posted by dakotashooter2
I don't have a problem with it as they pretty much destroy habitat for other wildlife. Besides when I shoot them and leave them they are transformed from pests to BAIT. For Coyotes.
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Shoot them, I'd like to go someday and pop a few. no town around where I live that I know of. 0 -
I shoot them. Not a single one will be there by morning. To many coyotes around.[:D] 0 -
I generally practice the If I am not going to eat it, I don't shoot it philosophy. No Prarie Dogs in my neck of the woods. We do shot yotes whenever possible as they are a problem.
I understand the prarie dogs are a problem in some areas, so if it is necessary to remove some of them, I really don't have a problem with it.0 -
quote:Originally posted by William81
I generally practice the If I am not going to eat it, I don't shoot it philosophy. No Prarie Dogs in my neck of the woods. We do shot yotes whenever possible as they are a problem.
I understand the prarie dogs are a problem in some areas, so if it is necessary to remove some of them, I really don't have a problem with it.
I'm hip. Out here they gas 'em, poison 'em and shoot 'em. So far, there has been an increase in the population of prairie dogs.
They get the plague and it knowcks 'em down for a year or so, but they come back. It's incredible.
I had some fun with an in-law who wanted to know if I'd regret all the prairie dogs I shot after they were extinct. I told her that I'd never once heard an old timer say how much they missed the passenger pigeon. Her look of horror made it difficult to keep a straight face.0 -
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quote:Originally posted by William81
I generally practice the If I am not going to eat it, I don't shoot it philosophy. No Prarie Dogs in my neck of the woods. We do shot yotes whenever possible as they are a problem.
I understand the prarie dogs are a problem in some areas, so if it is necessary to remove some of them, I really don't have a problem with it.
I'm hip. Out here they gas 'em, poison 'em and shoot 'em. So far, there has been an increase in the population of prairie dogs.
They get the plague and it knowcks 'em down for a year or so, but they come back. It's incredible.
I had some fun with an in-law who wanted to know if I'd regret all the prairie dogs I shot after they were extinct. I told her that I'd never once heard an old timer say how much they missed the passenger pigeon. Her look of horror made it difficult to keep a straight face.
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Same thing here. You just can't get rid of the varmints.0 -
Love to shoot those pigs with hollow points! Picks them up and slams them. Next pig comes out to eat him and he gets slammed too!(That is if I'm on target.) My favorite time though is using my colt 22 peacmaker but lots of them get away. When you connect though it the greatest. Those pigs are just little disease infested rodents that seem to be in unlimited numbers. 0 -
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Love to shoot those pigs with hollow points! Picks them up and slams them. Next pig comes out to eat him and he gets slammed too!(That is if I'm on target.) My favorite time though is using my colt 22 peacmaker but lots of them get away. When you connect though it the greatest. Those pigs are just little disease infested rodents that seem to be in unlimited numbers.
That's why I love the 22-250. Impact Gymnastics are impressive out to a quarter-mile. I've found that Nosler 55-grain ballistic tips really flips 'em.0 -
Out here at Camp Pendleton, we had a few of those lil' b@$t@rd$ chew a $10,000 fiber optic cable in 3 pieces. I begged and pleaded to the OIC to let me put my .17 HMR to good use, but he said poisioning them would be the best solution. Whatever. I say shoot the dang things. That'd save us tax payers a lot of money. Am I wrong?? 0 -
quote:Originally posted by jwade311
Out here at Camp Pendleton, we had a few of those lil' b@$t@rd$ chew a $10,000 fiber optic cable in 3 pieces. I begged and pleaded to the OIC to let me put my .17 HMR to good use, but he said poisioning them would be the best solution. Whatever. I say shoot the dang things. That'd save us tax payers a lot of money. Am I wrong??
I have to agree with the OIC. Poisoning them is a better way to kill them in bulk.0
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