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[WildRose]

I am curious. I have never hunted prarie dogs, but do you really think a few hunters will even put a dent in the population, or is it just one of bumps in the road that a few PD have to contend with as they grow up?

I used to shoot 150-200 a day in the Sandhills near Portales NM.

We had a place near our camp north of Timberlake, SD we could bounce around between four different dog towns and easily kill 150-200 the first day so we'd rotate every evening after finishing dog work hitting a different town every evening. That way they didn't get too smart too fast.

What's really a blast is hitting them right after a flooding rain that flooded many or most of their holes greatly limiting just how long they could duck down before having to come up.

Get a serious group of 3-5 solid shooters and yes, you can definitely put a hurt on a colony in a hurry.

 

[Tidus56]

I am curious. I have never hunted prarie dogs, but do you really think a few hunters will even put a dent in the population, or is it just one of bumps in the road that a few PD have to contend with as they grow up?

When they are pupping you sure can make a difference. I shoot on private ground that are hay fields so we can shoot them whenever because they are a nuisance and hurt the hay fields. I feel like if we stay on them for a week straight when they are pupping you'll see a decrease in population. Plaque comes in and wipes them out sometimes that really lowers the numbers.

 

[CBH Australia]

I would like to shoot these.

Are any other control method s used? I've worked in pest control in Australia so I am interested in what might have been tried.

Also a keen shooter so I would like to try varminting and popping dogs.

 

[WildRose]

I would like to shoot these.

Are any other control method s used? I've worked in pest control in Australia so I am interested in what might have been tried.

Also a keen shooter so I would like to try varminting and popping dogs.

Numerous. Anhydrous ammonia used to be the preferred method but that gets extremely expensive and is extremely dangerous to use.

Various poisons have also been employed but again, that gets rather expensive with hundreds of dens in a single colony and I've seen over a thousand spread out of a half section of land (320ac).

Nature is the most efficient killer of PD's but the plagues don't come around often enough and always leave an ample supply living to repopulate.

Unless conditions are just crazy right they will only breed once a year but produce 3-8 pups per litter so it doesn't take long for them to come back if you lay off of them.

Notice how they completely destroy the grass in the pasture. Not only do they eat it above ground they'll eat the roots below ground leaving a moonscape for livestock and other wildlife.

 

[Tidus56]

I would like to shoot these.

Are any other control method s used? I've worked in pest control in Australia so I am interested in what might have been tried.

Also a keen shooter so I would like to try varminting and popping dogs.

Yes, they will flood out their holes and dispatch them when they run out, poison and flame down their holes can be used in the early year (never seen this one only heard about it). I am sure laws have changed tho, this was when I was a kid 20 years ago. We shoot them every chance we get but it's never really enough and they damage the hay fields and leave holes for our livestock to break legs in.

 

[CBH Australia]

In Australia they sometimes use a Rosemarie to implode Rabbit Warren's.
By adding a timed amount of flame gas down the hole and ingniting to cause an explosion and cave in the Warren's.

 

[Tidus56]

In Australia they sometimes use a Rosemarie to implode Rabbit Warren's.
By adding a timed amount of flame gas down the hole and ingniting to cause an explosion and cave in the Warren's.

Oh I sorry that is how they do it, here as well.

 

[CBH Australia]

Bloody auto correct ,
Meant to say Rodenator, Rosemary is for Lamb roast.

Best Y'all keep shooting them dogs but save some for me.

Dear autocorrect, it's never Duck.

 

[WildRose]

In Australia they sometimes use a Rosemarie to implode Rabbit Warren's.
By adding a timed amount of flame gas down the hole and ingniting to cause an explosion and cave in the Warren's.

I've also seen it launch everything from rats to rattlesnakes out of their holes while still flaming. As hard as it is to come by grass in prairie dog country outside of the early spring that's not recommended here.

Been more than a few guys make a trip to the ER or morgue after using it too.

 

[WYO300RUM]

Bloody auto correct ,
Meant to say Rodenator, Rosemary is for Lamb roast.

Best Y'all keep shooting them dogs but save some for me.

Dear autocorrect, it's never Duck.

Don't use fowl language on this site !

 

[lancetkenyon]

Satisfied for today....

 

[swanng]

It seems that Powder Valley is getting shipments of powder fairly regularly. I just got some IMR 7828 SSC, Hodgdon H380, H110, H1000, and H4831SC and Accurate 5744 from them, and I know Midsouth Shooters has a number of various powders. None of them, however, has any primers. Midway USA is moving to a new 400,000 SF warehouse and isn't showing any powder for sale just yet. I'm waiting on some IMR 8208 XBR from one of them-I check every day, several times per day at each web site. They are getting powder, but no primers.

 

[WYO300RUM]

It seems that Powder Valley is getting shipments of powder fairly regularly. I just got some IMR 7828 SSC, Hodgdon H380, H110, H1000, and H4831SC and Accurate 5744 from them, and I know Midsouth Shooters has a number of various powders. None of them, however, has any primers. Midway USA is moving to a new 400,000 SF warehouse and isn't showing any powder for sale just yet. I'm waiting on some IMR 8208 XBR from one of them-I check every day, several times per day at each web site. They are getting powder, but no primers.

Too bad you don't live closer . There's 8208 at stores here. Been at one for weeks now.

 

[Spartan5]

Powder is definitely coming around more frequently. Finally found some primers yesterday at my favorite local gun store. They only offered them up after the 3rd guy I asked about them went in the back while I was filling out my form to buy a new cordless hole puncher. He said they are getting them but won't put them on the shelf right now because of the idiots selling them at 3x regular price on GB. $74.99 for this box yesterday. Might have to go buy another cordless hole puncher to get another box tomorrow, they are closed on Sunday!