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Old 08-18-2013, 09:07 PM   #1
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Prairie Dog Hunting - South Dakota

DW and I are going to be traveling to SD in late September and one of the things I have always wanted to do is spend part of a day shooting prairie dogs. Does any forum members who live in SD have a need to have a few dogs taken off their property?
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Old 08-19-2013, 01:30 PM   #2
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This is a link to the easy legal requirements:

http://www.travelsd.com/Outdoors/Hun...g,-Coyote,-Fox
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Old 08-19-2013, 01:46 PM   #3
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Would love that.

Hope you don't want to use .22 WRF or .22 WMR ammo though!!!! Ain't none in these United States no' mo'!!!
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Old 08-19-2013, 01:59 PM   #4
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DW and I are going to be traveling to SD in late September and one of the things I have always wanted to do is spend part of a day shooting prairie dogs. Does any forum members who live in SD have a need to have a few dogs taken off their property?
Hopefully you will find someone to take you up on your offer.. When we visited South Dakota last year, those ground squirrels were all over the place.
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Old 08-19-2013, 01:59 PM   #5
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Prairie dogs

I'm not from SD, and don't know anyone there you could hunt on.
But am curious what caliber you hunt with? Brother and I made several trips out to western Ks. (Elkhart area) and did a lot of shooting with our 17HMRs. I always wanted to take a camper out there and stay in it and hunt. We stayed in motels at night and had to drive quite a few miles to shoot.
Since then our "source" has passed away, we also was told that a lot of the farmers like to let the hunters get the dogs down to small numbers and then they go in and gas them.
Funny thing, I had just come back from vacation trip in SD and had seen those big dogs right up by the road and stuff. Then I got back and went on our first dog hunt there in Ks. Let me tell ya, the Ks dogs are less than half the size of the SD dogs. The ones up there looked like wood chucks!
Good luck if you get to shoot....jdadoug.
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Old 08-19-2013, 06:06 PM   #6
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I live in New Mexico and I shoot em all the time. I use a Henry rifle and .22 longs. 15 rounds down the tube and lots of cheap fun.
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Old 08-19-2013, 06:41 PM   #7
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Cheap? I'll buy ALL the .22 longs you can find, anywhere!!! They're scarce as hen's teeth!
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Old 08-19-2013, 08:19 PM   #8
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Bandjcarm, you might want to check the local "House Hold Hazardous Waste Recycling Center" if you have on there....... I have the guy save all the ammo that is left off there at ours and you wouldn't believe what I haul home each time! Black powder by the can, 22's to 45-70's and more.......... shot gun shells of all gauges, lead shot, empty and loaded brass, you name it.
One thing you might run into as I have, some of that old ammo is, it can be dangerous! Somebody's sloppy hand loads could blow up on you!
My dad was shooting some old paper 12 gauges at blue rock and it didn't go off. but did seconds later as he was lowering the gun.
Not a good situation to say the least...... jdadoug
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Old 08-19-2013, 08:21 PM   #9
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Years ago I shot them with my Rem 700 in .308, all you saw was a pink mist
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Old 08-19-2013, 08:49 PM   #10
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I`m not into hunting or shooting and have no problem with it. is it really that bad that they need to be shot? I watched a show years ago where they were hunting them as is explained here or sucking them out of the ground with a converted sewer cleaning truck. this is a serious/curious question! I wouldn`t think it was that bad, but I`ve only seen them in Wind Cave NP. so that is all I really no about them.
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Old 08-19-2013, 09:25 PM   #11
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Paint the prairie red!

...that is if you find enough ammo.

We saw a guy selling ammo in a parking lot of a kwikie mart. He had paper signs along the highway through town and was set up on a folding table under an awning. I think it was in Bonner's Ferry ID.
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Old 08-20-2013, 01:24 PM   #12
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Farmers hate them, they kill many cattle who step in their holes and break their legs.

Plus, shooting them is a ton of fun, legal, moral, helpful, and worthwhile.
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I watched a show years ago where they were hunting them as is explained here or sucking them out of the ground with a converted sewer cleaning truck.
Man did I LOL when I read that!!!
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I saw a program on the new Wild Kingdom a few months ago. Turns out that prairie dogs have a very complex language which I guess means that their chirp probably means more than "ugggh" when they die. If I had a cool hunting story I'd post that but this is about the best you'll get from me.

Prairie dogs may have the most complex language
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Old 08-20-2013, 08:43 PM   #16
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Thanks for the responses, I am still hoping to find someone in that area that is looking for someone to lessen the number of dogs on their property or a friends. If they are close, less than 100 yds, I would shoot them with a Weatherby in .22LR using stingers. If they are further away I would probably use my Ruger #1 in 25-06. Getting ammunition is not a huge problem for me the 25-06 I reload myself and I work at Basspro so I can get the .22 pretty easily.
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Our #2 grand-daughter is a student at the University of Montana, working on a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management. Her summer job is travelling around Montana, capturing prairie dogs, vaccinating them and putting radio tracking tags on them.

Not sure what the overall program is about.
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Self-propelled targets... LOL
I forgot about the 25-06 load. Good round.
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This might help you out a little; I'm going to Oklahoma in October, and am looking for a place to shoot prairie dogs there. I looked up "Hunting Prairie Dogs" on line, and found several outfitters who offer hunts. I thought they were expensive ($200 per day), but I guess it's easier than looking in a place your not familiar with. You might google it and see what comes up.

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