Scope recommendations for Prairie Dogs

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If you hunt around, you can find the Burris & Pentax 6-24 and 8-32 that are really great for shooting P. dogs. Also, a Burris Black diamond in the same power range are excellent, remember, you can always turn the scope power down.

One of the finest p. dog scopes ever made was the Baush and Lomb then later Bushnell 12x32 and the same in 6x24s.

For shooting p. dogs, the 1/8 Minute click adjustments is what I prefer over the coarser 1/4 that often end up being more like 1/3" adjustments.

I like thin cross hairs for shooting p. dogs because as the distance grows, the cross hair does NOT cover up the dog. A fine wire allows for precision shots where you can take the top of their heads off at 300+ where they often will lay in the top of their hole watching you.

On my H-BAR, I ran the Leupold 6.5-20 with the target knobs.

If you have 12 twists or better, I would urge you to run with a 55g Blitz king which I found to be the most explosive bullet in this class with the 53g V max being second place. I shot deer/hogs with the 55g Hornady Soft point and consider it to be the toughest of the bullets in this class with a 55g Sierra BTHP being second.
 
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I don't remember exactly how far this was, but I think it was 470ish?
March FX 4.5-28×50WA on a 6CM pushing 105 Hyb @ 3188fps.
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