Lemmee see if I can stir up another shooting subject.

Anyone here ever go to Montana on a prairie dog or a gopher shoot? I went on two one week ones back in the mid-80's and found afterwards that I could hit just about any deer that I saw.

Most of the prairie dogs were shot under 440 yards, but some stretched out to 550 yards. The rifles weren't all that specialized, just an off the shelf Remington 700 varmint specials in .223 and .22-250. Most of the real long shots were done with the .223.

A prairie dog covers up less area than the chest area on a deer and if a shooter gets good enough where he can hit the majority of his varmints at 400 yards.... then deer are easy.

So, anyone going over to thin these critters out?

In the 80's I had a couple of ranchers that wanted varmint hunters on their property and one over by Augusta even offered to buy the ammo.

BBVD, for information the landowners usually control the varmints through the use of poisoned grain. What they don't like about it is other animals eat the grain. Ranchers prefer varmint hunters that behave, shut gates, don't litter and know the difference between a hereford and a twitchy little gopher.