My first confirmed P-Dog kill!

[Buckaroobonsai]

A .224 Nosler Ballistic Tip Varmint 40 grain bullet hand loaded to 3247 FPS bench fired through a Remington 700 ADL Varmint chambered in .223 sighted through a Simmons Whitetail Classic Rifle Scope 6.5-20x 50mm from a distance of about 400 yards with an 8 mph east to west wind, on a target roughly the size of a beer can. Thanks to Steps for the invite, and to Kaiser.Shooter for spotting for me!

[ray1970]

Congrats.

[00tec]

Sorry I missed you guys. Woke up late.

[DangerLee_Industries]

Grill that sucker up!!!!!!! Yummy...

[Steps]

That was certainly a great shot. And the wind gusts were slightly higher than 8MPH!

I had a blast sitting back watching all of you take pop shots from 250-600+ yards, lol.

00Tec....Excuses.....

[davsel]

Nice shot.
Now you have the plague all up in your gear.

Enjoy the addiction.

[Buckaroobonsai]

Thanks, and no not really. Plague, (if even present), would come from contact with siliva, blood, airbourne virus, or fleas. None of which contacted me or my gear. That, and the cause of death to any other varmints on scene was only by "lead poisoning", which also minimizes the likelihood. Now, had I made sushi out of the chubby little bastard like I was tempted to, that may be a different story...

Nice shot.
Now you have the plague all up in your gear.

Enjoy the addiction.

[davsel]

Thanks, and no not really. Plague, (if even present), would come from contact with siliva, blood, airbourne virus, or fleas. None of which contacted me or my gear. That, and the cause of death to any other varmints on scene was only by "lead poisoning", which also minimizes the likelihood. Now, had I made sushi out of the chubby little bastard like I was tempted to, that may be a different story...

Just joking with you. However, I am always wary of flees around prairie dog towns. We seem to get occasional cases of the plague down here around Colorado Springs - the ones I remember had to do with people walking or riding bikes within prairie dog towns and getting bitten by flees.

Funny story:
I shot prairie dogs just outside Schriever AFB between 1999 and 2003. The land we shot on was owned by the State and leased to a rancher, whom we received permission from to shoot the dogs. A couple of years later, Schriever AFB wanted to expand their boundary fence. Part of the new land included some prairie dog infested fields. Though Peterson AFB Public Health Group had tested the prairie dogs outside Schriever for plague for several years, they suddenly found evidence of the plague and therefore were authorized to eradicate them. Not all of them, just the ones within some distance of the new fence line.

I miss shooting on that property - the dogs were not very educated and would occasionally pop up within 100 yards. 55gr moly coated Hornady V-Max .223 was my preferred round for vaporizing the little varmints.

[newracer]

My sons and I got a few Sunday

[mackbamf]

A .224 Nosler Ballistic Tip Varmint 40 grain bullet hand loaded to 3247 FPS bench fired through a Remington 700 ADL Varmint chambered in .223 sighted through a Simmons Whitetail Classic Rifle Scope 6.5-20x 50mm from a distance of about 400 yards with an 8 mph east to west wind, on a target roughly the size of a beer can. Thanks to Steps for the invite, and to Kaiser.Shooter for spotting for me!

Nice shootin' Tex...