Yeah, I know....
only nine months over due but I just finished booking our annual Kansas prairie dog hunt for this year and we are tidying up our Colorado leg with the loose ends being buttoned up within the next day or two and wanted to reminisce a little (and purge my photo folder).
Last year in Kansas we spent four days popping those critters on a permission property and we were invited back this year.
The property is open and flat (typical Kansas) with very little terrain to use as camouflage. What I found helpful was to sit against a fence post and blend in.
Joe and Mark decided to try their luck and get a feel for wind drift by taking some shot by where we parked.
After three days of prairie dog carnage in Kansas we departed to our main camp in Colorado.
Upon arrival to our Colorado location, we were greeted by torrential downpour which threatened to potentially washout (pun) our first day.
Not to be deterred we set out to do as much damage to the population of prairie dogs as ammo, air and time would allow and we weren’t disappointed.
After day one we chocked up as many kills as we had in Kansas over the total stay. Day two netted nearly the same. For day three we went to a permission we shot at on the last day of the previous year (2018) and at that time, found it over run with PD’s. We owed it to ourselves to go back. Over the next two days it was, at times, filling and firing, firing and filling for over a hundred rounds at a time. The dogs appeared to come out of holes like ants. I was shooting my Impact with a 26 shot mag and went through a tank of air and three mags in a matter of minutes.
Warning!
NEVER handle prairie dogs. They are know to carry the plague. The dogs in this picture were picked up with long tongs from outside surrounding mounds and placed together for the photo op. With this exception we left them where We shot them.
NEVER reach into a mound either. Rattlesnakes are known to take refuge in them.
All in all the three of us led to the demise of well over 700 dogs over the course of nine days, three permissions and two states.
This year I promise I’ll try to be more expedient in my report and to increase the number of kills!
only nine months over due but I just finished booking our annual Kansas prairie dog hunt for this year and we are tidying up our Colorado leg with the loose ends being buttoned up within the next day or two and wanted to reminisce a little (and purge my photo folder).
Last year in Kansas we spent four days popping those critters on a permission property and we were invited back this year.
The property is open and flat (typical Kansas) with very little terrain to use as camouflage. What I found helpful was to sit against a fence post and blend in.
Joe and Mark decided to try their luck and get a feel for wind drift by taking some shot by where we parked.
After three days of prairie dog carnage in Kansas we departed to our main camp in Colorado.
Upon arrival to our Colorado location, we were greeted by torrential downpour which threatened to potentially washout (pun) our first day.
Not to be deterred we set out to do as much damage to the population of prairie dogs as ammo, air and time would allow and we weren’t disappointed.
After day one we chocked up as many kills as we had in Kansas over the total stay. Day two netted nearly the same. For day three we went to a permission we shot at on the last day of the previous year (2018) and at that time, found it over run with PD’s. We owed it to ourselves to go back. Over the next two days it was, at times, filling and firing, firing and filling for over a hundred rounds at a time. The dogs appeared to come out of holes like ants. I was shooting my Impact with a 26 shot mag and went through a tank of air and three mags in a matter of minutes.
Warning!
NEVER handle prairie dogs. They are know to carry the plague. The dogs in this picture were picked up with long tongs from outside surrounding mounds and placed together for the photo op. With this exception we left them where We shot them.
NEVER reach into a mound either. Rattlesnakes are known to take refuge in them.
All in all the three of us led to the demise of well over 700 dogs over the course of nine days, three permissions and two states.
This year I promise I’ll try to be more expedient in my report and to increase the number of kills!
