Spring Varmints??

[corey hendrickson]

I know turkey hunting is big, but do any of y'all shoot ground squirrels, woodchucks,rockchucks or anything like that???Just kinda curious if any of you guys like to do that!!!

[h20fowler]

Ahh yes... prarie dogs. Nothing like throwin an old mattress in the back of a truck, settling down with a cooler of beer, a couple good friends, some good music, leaning over the 22-250 and making red mud from 300 yards away.

Sometimes we will load up the .22's and just see how many we can shoot in 30 minutes.

[corey hendrickson]

we have "whistle pigs"here in Idaho, basically what you shoot, just a miniture version. I usually shoot mine w/ my .17hmr, it's pretty graphic, I am making a slideshow now when I get it all done I may find somewhere to post it. We get badgers every once in awhile...those are fun to

[h20fowler]

i'll shoot the 17hmr every once in a while, but the wind out here pushes it around to much. Has to be a pretty still day for it to run. Looking at making a 10-22 in that mach 22. I think that would be a kick in the pants.

Ever try racoons? Find yourself an old farmhouse and run a crying racoon tape. You can hear them literally breaking out of the walls to come help. You can bust a good 5 or 6 in 5 minutes of less.

[corey hendrickson]

I did when I lived in Florida, we had a corn bucket hangin in a tree, and would pop em w/a .270, never used a e-caller, I use mouth calls for yotes

[Chris C.]

I use a 22-250 Remington 700 with h-s precision stock and buriss 6-24 power. 234 Ruger Buriss 6-24, 17HMR Marline With A BSA Sweet 17 Scope.
And a 25-06 Tompson CenterEncore with a custom bull barel and a buriss 4-14 scope. Mostly shoot GROUND HOGS and those Calibers clean them up nicely :twisted: Happy varmit hunting to all, hope there is enough to hold me off till waterfowl opens back up :cry:

[Max4Gooser]

I have been known to hunt yotes from time to time :wink:

I use a 22-250 or .223 depending on location and style of hunting.

[Midwest]

we do al little yote hunting around here, i use a 6mm for that. I like using an e-caller, but ther is alot of guys around us here that run dogs, usually see them out just about every weekend. We do some coon hunting too, had a few good nights this past season, we like to use a .17 for those. Our only problem is finding someone to buy or sell the fur for us. If anyone knows of a fur buyer in central Illinois let me know.

[Steve DeMaster]

sell the furs to zanders near the warm water lake