Prairie Dog hunting?

[stinkbelly]

What is a fair price for one of these hunts?

[Felix40]

Where are all of you doing these hunts?

[Swampa]

$400-$600/day, Texas panhandle or you can go to Wyoming, S Dakota

[Sean]

If you are already in Texas panhandle go ahead and cross into Oklahoma and go to Boice City. Hangout at the local diner in the morning and talk to a couple of landowners, only thing they hate worse up there is the antelope. I have even seen guys pull over in the ditch and setup and start shooting.

[AntlerCollector]

I'd love to do this sometime. If anyone gets a hunt together I'd be interested in going.


Even though


#Pdoglivesmatter!

[HoustonHunter]

We go to South Fork, Colorado once a year and stay at a ranch there. The place is covered with dogs. My BIL and I will ice down a 12 pack, take two .22s, a ton of ammo and sit back and have a blast.

Literally some of the most fun you'll have shooting.

[muzzlebrake]

What is a fair price for one of these hunts?

Call Fred Pronger at Pronger Bros Ranch up north of Dumas or go on up to Stratford and drop in at the local cafe and ask around some morning when the locals come in for bkfst. There is always a table of knowledge at the cafes.

Fred used to charge us $10 a day.
BTW, Fred likes beer. Any kind.

[okrattler]

Where are all of you doing these hunts?

About a mile from my house.lol In the Spring when the little ones come out is the best time to go. If you get a group on a mound huddled up you can kill em all with one shot with a 22-250.

Watch for snakes when you're walking around. They're everywhere up here so I'd imagine they're in every dog town.

[tps7742]

Lots of information given out thanks. So April/may timeframe is the best time for Texas to hunt p-dogs?

[okrattler]

Lots of information given out thanks. So April/may timeframe is the best time for Texas to hunt p-dogs?

I start seeing baby prairie dogs in May. By late May early June they should all be born by then.

[coolhand]

Best time in north Texas is around the 1st of June. The pups are out in force and you can overheat your gun fast. A .204 will get hot pretty quick. We switched to 17 Fireballs several years ago and never looked back! places to hunt are getting hard to find. We had a great place up around Lubbock, but the ranchers found a better way to poison them and wiped them out in one year.

[Leemo]

They any good to eat
Look like a squirrel

[okrattler]

They any good to eat
Look like a squirrel

There was an old man around here that used to eat them. He also lived in an old box car so......

I won't even pick them up after I shoot them. They're known carriers of the bubonic plague.

[arrowsonly88]

I was just talking to my buddies about this hunt today, I need to try it once! Heard it's a blast

[westtexducks]

Been a couple of times,

pics can be seen here http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=578655

and here http://discussions.texasbowhunter.co...d.php?t=555214

We were shooting a .204 and taking turns between me and my brother on the same gun and also taking cool down breaks after it started to get hot just to make sure we didn't ruin my barrel. We killed a ton of em and both time we went were just a few hours of shooting. If we had taken more time and brought more ammo we could have shot way more. Average shot distance was around the 200-250 yard mark, but starting out first thing we were killing them at 50-100 for first 10 rounds or so then they wise up.

Bring lots of ammo and highly suggest a few guns if you can swing it just so you don't have to take breaks between volleys.