First off, glad to have an outdoor board on here finally- with most Saints fans being from South Louisiana / Gulf South I know there are a lot of us around who hunt & fish.
I got back Saturday night from a prairie dog hunt in Wyoming- I must say this was a lot of fun, a completely different type of "hunting" but it was fun.
Short little video one of the guys on the trip made
Another thing I learned from Wyoming- I never want to go Antelope hunting, we'd be sitting in a field, no cover- just shooting benches and nice antelope would walk right through the field we'd just shot a few hundred rounds in. They are not a very intelligent animal.
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We have them up here (the mountains of Northern New Mexico) in the hundreds of thousands. Ranchers love for people to come and "hunt" the critters as their colonies leave holes that are often the cause of broken legs for the cattle and horses that inhabit that part of their ranch.
The game here is to establish yourself well away from the colony and "snipe" at the critters when they pop out of their holes. The longer the shot, the more challenging.
They are cute, but man are they destructive.
I hunt them with a bolt action .257 Roberts, equipped with a G.R. Douglas barrel (and stock hand carved by him for my Dad), Remington mechanism and a Leopold scope. Very, very accurate gun.
First off, glad to have an outdoor board on here finally- with most Saints fans being from South Louisiana / Gulf South I know there are a lot of us around who hunt & fish.
I got back Saturday night from a prairie dog hunt in Wyoming- I must say this was a lot of fun, a completely different type of "hunting" but it was fun.
Short little video one of the guys on the trip made
Another thing I learned from Wyoming- I never want to go Antelope hunting, we'd be sitting in a field, no cover- just shooting benches and nice antelope would walk right through the field we'd just shot a few hundred rounds in. They are not a very intelligent animal.
What were they using in that video, a Bushmaster .450 or something? Looked like explosions.
I used a .17 HMR mostly, a .223 bolt action- most of our shots were 150 - 300 yards.
My longest shot with the .17 was 300 yards, pretty good considering how windy it got up there, some strong cross winds- we'd have to lead them quite a few inches and let the bullet drift into them.
Some of the guys were really trying to pick them off at 500+, the longest was 730 yards- but it took a lot of shots to hit one out that far.
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What were they using in that video, a Bushmaster .450 or something? Looked like explosions.
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