I only had one chance to hunt these prairie dogs once with .22 lr, best fun I ever had and rancher was very grateful.

A beautiful sight! Nothing but a red mist on the prairie!

Here in upstate New York I lived on a farm about 30 years ago. The place was overrun with woodchucks. I got me a lever action Winchester 22 magnum in a 3 x 9 scope. And that summer I killed 82 woodchucks. Most of them between 120 to 150 yards.

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

That is impressive distance for a leaver gun. Good shooting !

Great video

Nice to see P.Doggen, keep the Brother Hood going. Hopefully might be able to get out & do some blasting my self.

17HMR seems to be a good match for prairie dogs.👍🏻

Looks like alot of fun.

17 wsm is my favorite rimfire....and the ammo has been extremely hard to find which is why I'm not shooting mine :/

Ask every cattle rancher, prairie dog season is 365.

Does the DNR ever check the kill for some of those diseases you mentioned?

What’s your preferred 17 WSM ammo, and grain?

Great shooting. Too bad about the caliber restrictions from the landowner but still a good deal. I live in upstate NY so prairie dogs are not a problem but we have plenty of woodchucks (ground hogs). I pop em with a 17HMR but just bought a Savage 223 that I'm looking forward to trying. Maybe even see a big fat New York yote on the farm where I hunt.

So you go to one field or area, how many are usually there or do you have to constantly move? Thanks

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

I try and shoot everything that pops up in a fan shape out to about 100 yards and then when there are no shots for about 15 minutes, then I relocate to another section of the field or just call it a day or go to a different location in the afternoon.,, but my eyes can only take so much of looking thru a scope, binoculars, rangefinder and zooming a camera in the glare if the dessert sun with the mirage dancing all around.

Memories. In the late 1050's at my uncles ranch on the Texas border in S.E. New Mexico my dad would set up a shooting table in the back of an old military 6 X 6 a couple hundred yards from the prairie dog town(s). We we reloading all our ammo and the 270 with heavy barrel and a scope I could pope the heads off the little buggers. I was astounded to see a thriving dog town on the edge of a residential development with CHILDREN in S.E. Denver. Rodents with disease?????

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Biologist have found six P-dog colonies in Colorado that have tested positive for Bubonic Plague and now they are saying that P-dogs can even harbor Monkey Pox. So, I'm hitting the coloney near town pretty hard.

@irishkelly654

2 жыл бұрын

Late 1050's??? Holy crap, you're almost a 1,000 years old...you look good though, LOL.

@jacka55six60

2 жыл бұрын

@@JimThomasOutdoors I remember in the early 90's seeing signs posted somewhere near Pueblo that said stay away from prairie dogs because of Bubonic Plague. I couldn't believe my eyes! How could it be that the "Black Death" that killed a third of the human race from the middle ages was here in Colorado! My sister reassured me that it could be treated with antibiotics. btw- Nice rifle! Absolutely love my Savage 93r BTVSS. - Jack in Black Forest

I often use the same 17’s you use on prairie dogs but sometimes I just have to use my 22-250 so I can atomize every single drop of blood in them in a millisecond, I love the 3’ or 4’ red mist clouds! Been shooting Prairie dogs in Colorado my whole life! Keep it up!👍

@johnbuiatti366

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Eradication is one thing, vaporization is another. My favorite shot of all time was with a 7mm Rem mag. Vapor and bits in a 30 yd radius.

@Nobody-Nowhere-USA

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbuiatti366 that red vapor is why we do it!

What scope do you use on your 17wsm

I have the exact same rifle in the exact same caliber great shooter but like you said hard to find ammo and it's expensive if you really want to send them flying build a 20 practical shooting a 32 grain Vmax at 4000 people per second

Prairie dogs left feeling inside out

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

That HMR does 'em pretty good up to 150 yards.

Great video great shooting what are some of the distance you getting out of the 17 hmr ?

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

It seems to work pretty well out to 150 yards but after that my accuracy and the bullets' power drops off pretty quick.

If ammo is an issue, reload the .204 more splat for the buck!

I am a PA hog plinker .10/22 love it, going out back soon.

Great shooting.

Lights out!

love using the 17 remington or 223 on them , makes coyote or eagle food of them,no"season" in wyoming,

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love that 17 Remington !

Used to go after these with a .243 55 gr HP out in the central valley in calif west of Lemoore and they would explode when you hit them.

when i lived in Fountain (El Paso County) there were two places in town with infected colonies of dogs. i live in Montana now and still get out for dogs and gophers, i also shoot the 17 WSM

Good shooting! Fun to watch!!

Hmr definitely a beast on prairie dogs

I have hunted ground squirrels, specifically Beldens ground squirrels in N. Calif and SW Idaho. Locally they are known as "squeaks", or "whistle pigs" and I think they are a little smaller than the Prairie Dogs. Normally shoot with 17HMR, or .223 when I am reaching out beyond 200 yards. Good video, makes me want to get out shooting again. In N. Calif they are found in Alfalfa fields and cause a lot of damage. In Idaho, they are in the grass lands often on BLM land.

Great job. Food for the scavengers.

love these videos. You show the good shots, the bad shots, the total misses. Everything that happens in the field. To all the keyboard warriors some of the stories are getting a little far fetched with distances and head shots.

In the last few months 17hmr has been easier to find. 17wsm not so much. Had to go to gun broker and pay twice over the going price which is twice too much already. But it sure works for stress relief...

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm sticking to the 17 HMR till the WSM ammo makes a comeback.

Great shoot

Hunt them year around in Texas. Ranchers hate 'em. Used to reload my ammo and took prairie dogs out to 600 yards with my .243.

@mistergrendel32

2 жыл бұрын

Where do you hunt them in Texas? Would the 6.5 mm Grendel be an appropriate round? 🤔

@coletrain4106

2 жыл бұрын

@@mistergrendel32 West Texas...in the panhandle. I used a .243 with fragmentary bullets to minimize richoet

@mistergrendel32

2 жыл бұрын

@@coletrain4106 Thanks

@coletrain4106

2 жыл бұрын

@@mistergrendel32 BTW, DON'T touch the Caracas..nasty bastards carry everything from the plague to monkey pox.

I have shot mine at 200 but the least bit of wind it will slide but I love that 17 hmr .

@kentonweaver8192

2 жыл бұрын

I had a hit at 240, but it was pure luck. Not gonna try it again. Wind is really hard on the .17.

@carlwilliams6300

2 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely right about that buddy 👍

Lotsa preggers. Good job.

Back East here I do a lot of woodchuck hunting

I use .17wsm. At NAPI, south of farmington nm.

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Love that cartridge!

11:34 that one was totally a matrix move..

Made a nice sized dent in that colony.

Would it be possible to meet up with you and hunt them I live in AZ and would love to come to your place and take care of business I use 17hmr

If a lot of those dogs are infected, I hope you just leave them lay, and if you do, do any scavengers get sick from eating them? Thanks.

Some good shooting.

Nice👍

whare i was raised south and east of florence there were prairie dogs all over this was in the1940 then in the 50 thay poisend them out . tell you never saw one. i shot a lot of dogs with 22LR . 22LR were about a dollar a box

A good day for hunting A bad day for prairie dogs

You need to get you a good quality PCP Air Rifle. , just the money you save in ammo in one year will pay for it. Some shoot just as flat as any .22 and just as accurate. Also, they are quiet.

Are prairie dogs hunted to eat? Or, is it more for getting rid of varmints/pests? Don't shoot me! I'm asking because I don't know. Thanx! And, that's some pretty good shooting!

@tonypimm8940

2 жыл бұрын

Just to minimize a destructive pest species. They can harbor the fleas that carry Bubonic Plague (Black Death from the Middle Ages) and, apparently Monkey Pox, which isn’t from monkeys but from rodents.

@danmidkiff5416

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have seen over pest eradication videos on here, but this is the first prairie dog vid for me. Happy hunting!

👍

I used to hunt the dogs on Bakelite Mesa east of Pueblo back in the day with a .22 hornet. It was sure enough good dog medicine.

It is good that there are some "Normal's" like you sir to thin out / eliminate the disease infested rodents, as the newbie WOKE kiddies I suspect look on them as just cute little pets.

Beautiful rifle! Seems like a more lethal cartridge should be in order though.

@stevensonDonnie

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, seems a little to light weight for these animals.

@FUNOW169

2 жыл бұрын

They look pretty dead to me

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I prefer the 17 WSM, but the ammo is near impossible to get right now.

MonkeyPox, how, when, where, and who. It sure didn't originate here.

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

In 2003, forty-seven confirmed and probable cases of monkeypox were reported from six states-Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. All people infected with monkeypox in this outbreak became ill after having contact with pet prairie dogs. The pets were infected after being housed near imported small mammals from Ghana. This was the first time that human monkeypox was reported outside of Africa.

I like 40gr vmax at 3,500fps

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

That will turn 'em inside out for sure.

Nice reactive targets.

Lack of ammo , have you tried adult air rifles?

Use a hotter load most of your kills are taking to long. Other than that great video 👍

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

The landowners require that I use rimfire so the 17 Winchester Super Mag is the max that I can use, but WSM ammo availability has become critical, so I have had to drop down to the 17 HMR for closer applications.

@Silviapepe

2 жыл бұрын

@@JimThomasOutdoors makes sense now, I miss the days of readily available ammo. rock on brother 👍

Who is the dude who won’t shut his mouth?

Man that first segment was a little brutal. The 17 seems to either be better for you, or better for the job, cuz you were getting way more efficient lethal hits. I’m all for hunting and pest control, but it isn’t their fault, so we should do our best to do the job as quickly and cleanly as possible. As for monkey pox, I wouldn’t worry too much if I was you. First of all, scientists could find moon dust up their butts if it could be shocking enough to get some grant money, and second, this is mostly (though not all) in the gay community. It’s one of those "you get it from extended skin in skin and or body fluids" sort of a thing. I mean at least for now. Maybe it’ll change, but hasn’t so far.

@JimThomasOutdoors

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'd much rather use the 17 WSM but it is nearly impossible to find that ammo right now - and pretty difficult to find even the HMR.

I'm not a hunter, but I'd think with that scope you got - you could do a better job of killing them without the agony . . . head shot. That poor baby that had his insides punch out of the hole you'd made. I understand the need, but do so as painlessly as you could. Thx

Just don’t let them suffer please that’sall I ask!!

It seems to me that you are using too light of a cartridge to humanly take many of these animals. Clearly many taken in this video are not killed quickly.

@panthermartin7784

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, wow, are you special.

You need to work on your coup de grace. You left a lot of dogs poorly shot that should have had an immediate second shot for a quicker dispatch. 17hmr requires better shot than what you are doing.

@rcarmichael7582

2 жыл бұрын

When they are kicking about, it helps to draw out others. Great sniper trick.

NOT CLEAN KILL VERY BAD

Great video