Prairie Dog Hunting – Thinning out a prairie dog colony with .17 HMR rfile.
Some good footage here with many slow-motion replays.
It’s always interesting to see how effective the .17 HMR is for small varmints like this.
Enjoy…..
Posts Tagged ‘squirrel-hunting’
.17 HMR Rifle vs. Prairie Dog Colony
Monday, March 7th, 2011Shooting Squirrels Necessary For Pest Control
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Ground Squirrels cause lots of damage in pastures and crops and their holes can cripple cattle and horses. Pest control methods such as poisoning, etc. is too expensive. So, you call out the snipers to reduce the population.
Enjoy the ground squirrel hunting video below.
– flatlander
Hooked on Crack? Shooting Wyoming Ground Squirrels.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010I read an article put out by the Colorado State University Extension Office where they were discussing the damage and control of the Wyoming Ground Squirrel populations. Among the various control methods was, of course, shooting.
Here’s an excerpt from this article:
“Shooting
Small, isolated colonies of Wyoming ground squirrels can be effectively controlled by shooting. Shooting lowers the population by removing individuals and disrupting their life cycle. However, if there are other colonies of ground squirrels nearby, individuals from those populations will migrate into the area where squirrels are being removed. For effective control of problem ground squirrels, a population must be kept under constant shooting pressure.”
Ahh…. music to my ears! Keep them under “constant shooting pressure”. Makes me want to get out and send a few .17 HMR Hornady V-Max bullets down range!
There’s nothing like hearing the crack of the rifle and smelling the burnt gun powder out in the field! I guess if you’re going to be on crack, that’s the crack to be on.
Take a kid hunting – teach them gun safety – get them out in the field. Get ‘em hooked on the crack of rifles and pistols and you won’t find them in trouble on the streets.
– flatlander
Free Shooting Target Downloads
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
We have collected all our Free Shooting Target Downloads and put them onto one page.
We have six different targets you can download and easily print on normal copy paper on your inkjet or laser printer. Why buy expensive targets when you can download and print your own?
Click HERE For The Free Target Download Instructions
Squirrel Hunting – .17 HMR vs Ground Squirrels
Sunday, July 11th, 2010235 +/- squirrels less on the farm..
Rifle: Ruger 77/17
Scope: Tasco World Class Scope (6x-24x-44mm)
Ammo: Hornady .17 HMR ballistic tip
This was taken over a two day period where the problem was not solved completely, but certainly addressed… The dead land in the film use to be rows of trees, and the piles of limb and branches in the video are whats left of the trees. The green is the neighboring alfalfa which they are severely threatening…
Crater Lake Buffalo Company Offers Squirrel Hunts
Monday, June 28th, 2010Crater Lake Buffalo Company, in Southern Oregon, is offering sage rat shooting this year. For any of you shooters that live in the Willamette Valley, they are a much easier drive than trying to get to Unity or Baker to shoot squirrels. And, if you mention that you saw them on ShootingSquirrels.com, they will give you an additional 15% off the price of your hunt.
Some of the guys in the forums have shot at Crater Lake Buffalo Company, and say the hunting is great. If you want to talk to any of them, the guys in the Tacoma Death Squad, including OblitaRat and RedMister have both been hunting there. And, according to Adrina, from Crater Lake Buffalo Company:
I had some guys shooting yesterday who went through about 3000 rounds each with a 75% kill rate.
Now that’s some fun shooting!
They only have a few spots left for the rest of the sage rat season, which ends around the middle of July, so if you want to go, you need to contact them quickly. Here’s what you need to know:
Crater Lake Buffalo Company Squeak Hunts
Ranch Phone: 541-365-2227
Cell Phone: 541-810-3956 or 3955
Address:
HC 63 Box 291 Hwy 97
Chiloquin, OR 97624
E-mail address: sales@clbcsqueakhunt.com
craterlakebuffalo@hughes.net
Squirrels Are Up in the West
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010I just got back from a trip through Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and California. As I was driving, I saw squirrels up in Oregon from North Powder to the Border of Idaho, and then all through Idaho, parts of Utah and again in California. There were also hunters out shooting squirrels, which made me jealous, since I was locked in the car for 3000 miles with a 6 year old, a 9 year old and my wife…. Can you say Yeee Hawww?
17 HMR Squirrel Shooting Video
Thursday, January 14th, 2010I finally broke down and spent the day going through dvd’s from last year’s squirrel shooting trips. I didn’t try to do anything artistic with this video, but it does quell the basic need for seeing squirrels getting whacked… I’ll try to get up some more videos in the next week or two, so check back.
All of these squirrels were shot using my Savage 17hmr accutrigger, with Hornady 17gr ballistic tip bullets. On a side note, there’s nothing like having a video camera mounted on your rifle to show you when you jerk the trigger.
Over 800,000 Squirrel Video Views
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009I was looking at the squirrel shooting videos that I have on Youtube tonight, and decided to see how many video views we’ve had since the first squirrel videos went up. According to the viewing records, our squirrel shooting videos have been watched over 800,000 times in the last 2 years.
We get almost 1,000,000 page views a year on shootingsquirrels.com, it kind of makes me wonder how many people we’ve sent to other Youtube squirrel videos from this site, since we post quite a few from other people too. You’re probably wondering why I’m wondering this…. Or Not.
Well, the reason is because I’m looking for a new title for myself, like “Squirrel Video King” or the “Squirrel Splatter King” or just “That Weird Ass Guy Who Films Dead Squirrels”…
What do you guys think? (Or should I just start taking my Meds again and forget about it?)
