Prairie Dog Hunting - South Dakota

[fbconsults]

Only found one outfitter in SW Oklahoma who offers prairie dog hunts, and they are completely booked for September and October!!

Happy Trails, Forrest

[Rickflint]

I don't mind paying an outfitter to hunt when I am getting meat to eat, but I don't think I would pay an outfitter to just shoot varmints that the farmers WANT to get rid of. Just something about that.

I am told by some friends that if I head out towards Mud Butte that I can probably find some farmers that will welcome me to lower the numbers on their land.

[Blackrock]

I have shot Pdogs south of the mp170 exit on I-90. There is a KOA right there and an 1890's frontier Town tourist feature.
From there cross south of I-90, turn back east and then turn south on Cedar Butte Rd. Once down into the river bottom of White River either go right and up a ways to a hardscrabble looking farmstead and ask around there. Or you can keep going south and take pot shots from the fence line at em.

You will need a SD varmint permit, I think it was $20.

I have shot in this area two different time in June and they were thick in a lot of places. Used my 6mm, .222 and 22-250 on shots out past 600 yards.

Best shooting I had was in this area. Dogs left, right and center as far out as you wanted to shoot.
https://www.google.com/maps/preview#...5!4f13.1&fid=7

[BigBaron]

That sounds like fun! Do you handload so the rounds are sub-sonic at 600 yards?

[Blackrock]

I have chronographed my 55gr 22-250 loads at 3600 fps so they are still probably cooking right along all the way out there.

[Rickflint]

Originally Posted by BigBaron

That sounds like fun! Do you handload so the rounds are sub-sonic at 600 yards?

I don't load them to go 600 yds - lol I don't think I could hit a small target like that much beyond 400 yds. Very few people could.

[BigBaron]

That's why the guys I've read about make them sub sonic. The bullet just goes pfffftt if they miss, so the prairie dog isn't spooked.
I wish I could do this in Korea...