I got my .25 fx wildcat mk3 compact right before Christmas and have been enjoying the high end pcp life
. I’m a farmer and I’ve done some networking in the last year and made some new friends that farm as well. The weather has been horrible the last week. 50-60 mph winds and cold. Just miserable and I was starting to get a bad case of cabin fever. I was thinking about making a trip to eastern Colorado to hunt some prairie dogs to get out of the house. Ironically 2 hours after I had that thought one my friends that’s a 45 minute drive from me sends me a text saying the neighbor’s prairie dog town has started moving across the road onto his wheat field and he needs my new air gun. He said it jokingly at first but we soon had a plan to hit em the next day since the wind would be calmed down some by then. Got to his house at 10 am and it was a crisp morning with light winds and the dogs were out! This was a pest control job so we stayed in the pickup to shoot. I was shooting nsa 29.5 gr slugs at 870fps. I took the first shot at 40 yards and smacked one in the head. He didn’t move. My first prairie dog with an air rifle! My friend had one on the other side of the road so I handed the gun to him. Told him how to dial in parallax and where to hold depending on the range. He absolutely smoked one 25 yards out. He looked at me and said “this is so awesome” 

. We spent the next hour getting as many as we could. Went to lunch and spent another 2 hours out there. Probably got over 50 dogs in the 3 hours we were there. Hit most of what we shot at. I got several at 100 yards and my friend even got one out that far. We wiped out the ones that was getting into his field. Didn’t see one poke their head up as we drove around that area. There’s still a lot more to shoot but they will have to wait. I’m now addicted to prairie dog hunting like everyone else haha! I just needed a bigger air cylinder for more shots per fill haha.



