[SLB]

When I was growing up in Wyoming in the 1960's we made many Sunday afternoon plinking trips to local "dog towns" to shoot them. I have seen them shot with everything from a .38 Spec to a 12 ga to a 30-06 using some WW2 armor piercing rounds that one dad had brought home from Europe 20 years earlier.

[SLB]

BTTT

[Awestruck]

It’s a necessary thing, but nothing I’d like to watch on You Tube.. I just don’t have the stomach for it..

[Graybeard58]

When I was a lad there were no prairie dogs around, so I and my friends would find a wooden bridge somewhere in the country, sit on the safety of the bridge and plink water moccasins with 22s.

[Graybeard58]

the Prairie Dog Coalition and conservation groups including Biodiversity believe shooting prairie dogs in contests is an abhorrent, cruel and unnecessary blood sport that should be stopped in Wyoming.

Next they'll want to ban killing cock roaches.

[Wpin]

I love to hunt, but to me the very definition of hunt would have to include, at the least, using the meat for food. Our meat is primarily venison with some squirrel, raccoon, pheasant, and rabbit. I have fed my family with the game I have hunted for a long time.

To go out and simply kill animals for “pleasure” is at best distasteful, if not sinful. A task best left for fools and cowards.

[Beagle8U]

“”The bullets used are also typically non-jacketed, hollow-point, exploding bullets designed to ‘mist’ the prairie dog, which is a pretty despicable practice,” “

I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to use non-jacketed bullets in a typical varmint rifle. It would lead the barrel beyond belief after only a few shots and you wouldn't be able to hit anything.

The writer of the article is an idiot.

[AngryJawa]

"The bullets used are also typically non-jacketed, hollow-point, exploding bullets designed to 'mist' the prairie dog, which is a pretty despicable practice," he said.

"Those exploding lead bullets turn into sand-sized grains ... that are picked up by any species that scavenge on corpses," Short said.

Oy...where to start?

Would these eco-warriors be happier if the rodents were poisoned or vacuumed out of the ground? One way or another, ranchers are going to have these pests remediated rather then have them make their ranges made unsafe for high-value livestock. A bullet kills quickly for the most part. Poisons do not.

The majority of folks who are into competitive prairie dog shooting are using very-high-velocity, flat-shooting ammo that, by definition, has to be jacketed in order not to fly apart at the incredible RPMs they pull. We won't touch on barrel leading either.

Neither jacketed hollow points not plain old lead bullets "explode" into tiny particles either. They mushroom open (most of the time)or fragment into somewhat smaller chunks. I doubt much sintered metal ammo or birdshot is being used out there. If a PD is disappearing in a pink mist, the bullet will not remain in their tiny little corpses for the scavengers to eat.

[wastedyears]

Prarie dogs carry the Black Plague.

When that makes a comeback because of them, “I told you so” just won’t cut it.

[count-your-change]

I have several recipes for cooked prairie dog if anyone is interested. But of course they require a prairie dog as the main ingredient.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Some here do not understand the animal rights groups. They don’t care if the rodent you are killing (in this case prarie dogs) carry plagues that can be harmfull to human beings. A lot of these people in the animal rights groups would rather see more animals and less humans. If it takes a plague to kill off a million people, then so be it...

The real sickos here are the animal rights groups.

[pyx]

A short trip on over to the Center for Disesase Control (CDC) has this information about BUBONIC PLAGUE in their FAQ

QUOTE

Q. How is (BUBONIC) plague transmitted?
A. By fleas that become infected with bacteria Yersinia pestis that cause plague.

Q. How do people get (BUBONIC) plague?
A. By the bite of fleas infected with the plague bacteria.

Q. What is the basic transmission cycle for BUBONIC PLAGUE?
A. Fleas become infected by feeding on rodents, such as the chipmunks, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, mice...

UNQUOTE

Duane Short, wild species program director for the Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance...

Animal rights activists such as the Prairie Dog Coalition and conservation groups including Biodiversity believe shooting prairie dogs in contests is an abhorrent, cruel and unnecessary blood sport that should be stopped in Wyoming.

I would argue that if Short's group aligns itself with "animal rights" groups like PETA or the Prairie Dog Coalition, then it is NOT a conservation group. This is more drivel from LEFTIST crazies who want to control YOUR life and save rodent vermin that carry BUBONIC PLAGUE.

"The bullets used are also typically non-jacketed, hollow-point, exploding bullets designed to 'mist' the prairie dog, which is a pretty despicable practice," he said.

Most who own or have owned rifles know using unjacketed lead will foul a rifle bore and therefore this claim is yet more of a STEAMING LOAD from the LEFT. LEFTISTS continually hand out press releases to their buddies in the media who in turn continue to dutifully present these press releases as "news".

[<1/1,000,000th%]

My cat likes to kill small mammals too.

She brought a live rabbit in the house over the weekend and really freaked out my wife.

[AuntB]

Oh, my goodness.

Save the Prarie Dog!! I can just hear it. Oh, well, we all got tired of them worshiping fish.

I admit I only got halfway through the article. The whiner made it sound like he was going to be forced to attend one of these shoots. Next he’ll be wanting to outlaw rat poison. Shooting is about as merciful a death as is possible. Beats death by poison.