22 cal. Verses squirrel and the 22 is undefeated.
I understand the prairie dog people really like the .22 WMR, much flatter shooting than .22 LR.
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“22 cal. Verses squirrel and the 22 is undefeated.”
17HMR twice the effective range and the CCI TNT point’s are named that for a reason they obliterate any rodent smaller than about 3lbs the red mist is classic.
The 22 Mag not LR has at most 100 yards of usable range, then in the wind a LOT less. The sleek little 17 in still air can pop PDogs at 250 all day every day and in the wind is still a 150 yard stone cold killer.
Only the 4000+ fps 25-06 with 75gr Vmax poly tips hits harder and out to 400 easy. In La Mesa Texas at my buddies ranch he has a huge Pdog town he has battled for years we set up over ATVs and bipods a couple hundred out and blast all day, the come back at night with the 25s and pop the yotes feasting on the scattered remains of the days shooting it’s a two for one hunt.
If the wind is up only the 25s get brought prethreaded barrels are cheap and so is powder when you load your own shells there is not really an easier case to reload than a -06 based case we do it in the field with a lee hand loader all the time. Same gun , same shell no need to neck size , its prime,pour,seat, no crimp needed on bolt guns. 45 seconds a shell in the field we can shoot till the barrels smoke at his dog town.
Bang wham poof drifting mist , wash rinse and repeat a hundred times they keep popping their heads up and we keep whack a moleing tham..good times good times a case of iced cold Shiner Bock and some sliced Texas grass fed 18 hour post oak smoked beef brisket sandwiches out on the prairie where that cow lived it’s whole life is my idea of perfection. I hope when I walk through those pearly gates on the other side is a large pasture, my fellow cowboys and some cold Shiner Bock and BBQ.