Author Topic: The mysterious and Beautiful art of Exploding Prairie Dogs (Read 2841 times)

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #45 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:05:14 PM »

Backed by popular demand, I've edited the link to something Hawklore and Bodhi can relate to easier.

I guess we all learn from our experiences. What I learned from this one is that god likes it when you blow away a large animal and then smile at its carcass.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:10:43 PM »

in:rolleyes:

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:18:39 PM »

It's really a humane way of getting rid of the little bastards. They don't have time to feel a thing. One second they are sitting there and the next second they are meatloaf.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #48 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:26:58 PM »

I'm all for pest control and stuff.

But using expanding heads, hollow points, fragmenting rounds on these things is just too much. There's no reason to do it other then the satisfaction these poor bastards get from doing it.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #49 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:34:53 PM »

I hear the thing to do is to use steel-jacketed, plastic-cored rounds for maximum velocity and explosiveness.

Hawklore · « **Reply #50 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:43:46 PM »

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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
Cockroaches don't have societies? What the hell are you talking about? They have societies more intricate than most. So do termites and ants and little mice that live in your basement or attic. They're also all living, breathing creatures--only they're not as cute as prairie dogs, who, btw, ruin crops and farm animals all the time. Maybe not as dramatic as an alligator in a pool, but far more costly to certain people.

As for people going to Hell--judge not lest thee be judged. How many dust mites did you murder today without feeling a twinge of remorse.

Oh boy...

Caught another fish on the hook with the hell comment.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #51 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:43:50 PM »

Laser the idea is to kill them with the first shot. You don't want the little guy running around with a bullet in him, or a clean hole that might take a day to kill him. We started using Stingers (high velocity hollow point) just for that reason.

Hawklore · « **Reply #52 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:46:21 PM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
It's really a humane way of getting rid of the little bastards. They don't have time to feel a thing. One second they are sitting there and the next second they are meatloaf.

Have to agree with you on that one..

But, why make them EXPLODE?

Well one is for enjoyment I guess..

Other is so you don't have to go out on the field and clean up your kill?

Thats called being lazy..

-added for a reason-

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #53 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:51:47 PM »

Hawklore the exploding is a by-product of using expanding or fragmenting bullets. Even with our .22 rounds we would sometimes get their innards blowing up. You want to err on the side of using too much force. Like I said, the idea is not to have wounded squirrels limping around.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #54 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:52:21 PM »

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Originally posted by Hawklore
Oh boy...

Caught another fish on the hook with the hell comment.

It's not the word hell that caused the reaction, it was the utter stupidity that appeared to the right and left of it. Way to acquiece on the whole varmint hunting issue though. We went from being evil to lazy in the space of two dozen posts.

Gman · « **Reply #55 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:53:04 PM »

Funked, can you get CCI's Velocitor's there? If you think Stingers are something, try a box of those out through your 10/22. It sounds like a bomb going off in comparison, the round shoots flatter and further, and the effects are far more lethal.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 25, 2004, 09:55:16 PM »

Gman I haven't done this kind of stuff for 15 years or so, so I'm a little out of date on the ammo. I always used my friend's guns, Marlin .22, 10-22, and an 870 in case we had flying targets or fast movers like jackrabbits.

All the places we used to hunt are now suburban sprawl anyways.

Edit: Thinking back I can see the need for better ammo. A lot of times we would have them frozen, but then as we moved for a closer shot (between our lousy shooting and the light Stinger bullets we needed to be inside 50 yds, preferably 25 yds) they would sound the alarm and all run in their holes.

Ping · « **Reply #57 on:** January 26, 2004, 02:48:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Gman
SURVERY SAYS:

EEEEHHHHHHHHHH!

Look around where you live there JB. I bet it's in a city. I bet you don't see many prairie dogs or other varmit animals running around, do you? Life will find a way my bellybutton . More like Humans will find a way to exterminate what is in the way or what we don't like.

In Ottawa all along the 417 in the grass sections for the on and off ramps, they are loaded with groundhogs.
So I will have to say you are wrong on this one Gman

Shane · « **Reply #58 on:** January 26, 2004, 03:18:18 AM »

my dad always had his .30-.30 on the tractor with him for groundhogs. their burrows could snap a tractors front wheels (close together). my brother and i used to clear the gophers on the golf course on that farm with air rifles. funniest gopher story was my brother shot one right in the *** apparently, it did a backflip and took off.

funniest 30-30 story would be my dad taking aim at a woodchuck in a field across from the 4th green (we were driving down the road on the tractor). there was a guy chipping onto the green, and he no clue as tro what we were doing. he threw up his clubs and took off hell for leather when he heard the shot.

rpm · « **Reply #59 on:** January 26, 2004, 06:43:47 AM »