Exploding Prairie Dogs

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drayweb Said:
What's a good calibre for prairie dogs?    Is there a little bullet that wouldn't do as much damage? 

What on earth would be the point to that??????

Half the fun is watching that red blob in the center of your scope.  Or see how high you can make them fly.  Flips are fun too.

it brought a warm feeling to my tummy when i read your title.  exploding pdogs are one of the great pleasures in life

I suppose he wants to have some stuffed and mounted, for his mantle. I have had good luck with the 17hmr with 20 grain bullets, at 100 yards or farther it doesnt do much damage.

.22 Mag doesnt do much damage.

How about this,.50cal "dogs be gone.com" fun stuff.

Barnes Gernades....... boom.

 When I had my #1 in 300 Winchester I was running 200 grain hotcore flat bases @ 3150... used that for prairie dogs from time to time... Hard bullet,yes.
But when youd connect on cranium..... holy hell did the stuff fly.

Pretty sure any bullet OTHER than the V-max will do less damage!

Lycanthrope Said:
I suppose he wants to have some stuffed and mounted, for his mantle.

You mean since he can't get an elk to walk close enough to the road to shoot?

my cousin shoots muscrats with a 22-250

I use a 17 fireball does not scare everything in the state when you touch it off and works real well out to 200yds also a 204 ruger can make red mist  a couple hundred yds farther. Man  a 300 they already have to many holes no use diggen more

If you want one to mount I believe the right caliber would be a gopher trap or coni bear

Whats the point to less damage?  I use a .243 with various reloaded ballistic tips and get anything from the red mist to the flippin chunks. Try Varmint Grenades I heard they do some real damage, and yes go to dogbegone.com and watch some of their video clips.