Prairie dog hunting- Cool slow mo video of bullet in travel

They cripple livestock, and are diseased.

bison have been roaming the prairies for millennia without being crippled by prairie dog holes. Cattle are the introduced species

many small animals are disease vectors. Crowding them into smaller and smaller territory only makes the problem worse

What do you do with mice that enter your home? Or moles that dig up your yard?

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i hunt, i kill, I harvest.

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Never understood the desire to kill things without eating them.

Quit being a bitch, that dog never knew what hit him, it's not like he is being tortured. They are literally everywhere out west and are some land destroying little bastards.

I shoot squirrels all the time with my .22 Air Rifle that enter and exit the eaves of my house. No amount of deterrent I've tried keeps them from chewing the soffits and eaves so I dispatch of them.

It's protecting property.

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Quit being a bitch

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nice to meet you too brother.

feel free to disagree as I noted in my first post, your prerogative of course. Of the two of us though you seem to be the emotional one about this

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Gotta be they would eat better than squirrels?

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Prairie dogs carry the plague. We don't even approach the carcasses much less consider eating them. I go out once a year to CO and help with population control. We have a group of ranchers who host and feed us just so we will hunt their properties. They look cute and all but they are a true nuisance much like we are having here with the hogs.

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Never understood the desire to kill things without eating them.

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Same. As I've grown older, I appreciate seeing critters in their habitat. I'll kill for food or protection only. But I understand we all don't have the same values.