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Offline bilmac

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Prairie Dog Gun
« on: August 17, 2008, 07:18:35 PM »
Went out to my local dogtown today. Took a 223 a 22 rimfire, and my Ruger Blackhawk 357 6 inch. Killed several with the Blackhawk the farthest were 63 and 68 long steps.  No scope. I found out one thing though, if the sun is glareing on your sights forget about any fancy shooting.

I'm shooting a 125 gr win hp in a 38 special case loaded to about 1100fps. A nice easy shooting load that shoots pretty straight.
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Re: Prairie Dog Gun
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2008, 04:21:39 AM »
sounds like fun bilmac, doing things like that out of the ordinary varmint hunting can be fun for sure,
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Re: Prairie Dog Gun
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2008, 08:52:22 AM »
We have blacktail prairie dogs here that make lots of small towns sometimes in pretty brushy areas, so ranges can be short. It would be murder to kill them with a rifle. A lot of these towns never see a human except during antellope season.
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Re: Prairie Dog Gun
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2008, 10:15:11 PM »
Prairie dogs at 63 and 68 yards with an iron sighted revolver and a ramp front sight is nice shooting.
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Re: Prairie Dog Gun
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2008, 08:54:04 AM »
Beats the heck out of 100yd+ shooting in South Dakota on my wife's relative's ranch.  I did manage to hit a few with a 357 mag., scoped and sighted for 100 yds.  Unfortunately, it was take a shot and then wait 1/2hr for them to come up again.  With a contender pistol in 223 at 150yds or more; it was shoot until you were tired or ran out of ammo or rats.
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