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<blockquote data-quote="westexhunt" data-source="post: 2178027" data-attributes="member: 71281"><p>To add to my 223 suggestion. It was my family's first time to actually go on a prairie dog shoot. I had shot them before but only for a few minutes at a time, it was just pop a few when we were on a dove hunt etc. So I don't have much experience. The day we hunted in South Dakota it was blowing well over 20mph with gusts into to the 30mph range. It was brutal. You could hardly hold steady enough to shoot, cap kept blowing off etc. I had 3 similar 223 rifles with Bushnell Tactical Elite scopes with Horus reticles. In that wind and shooting 223 (Most shots were in the 300 yd range some to 600) we would not have had much if any success without those reticles. I've always had a one shot one kill type of mentality when shooting rifles but that day was very humbling and I learned a lot about wind. Was also able to teach my boys a lot about hold over and wind call spotting for them through the same reticle, we all shot suppressed and the ability to see your misses and communicate with each other made it a great shooting lesson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="westexhunt, post: 2178027, member: 71281"] To add to my 223 suggestion. It was my family’s first time to actually go on a prairie dog shoot. I had shot them before but only for a few minutes at a time, it was just pop a few when we were on a dove hunt etc. So I don’t have much experience. The day we hunted in South Dakota it was blowing well over 20mph with gusts into to the 30mph range. It was brutal. You could hardly hold steady enough to shoot, cap kept blowing off etc. I had 3 similar 223 rifles with Bushnell Tactical Elite scopes with Horus reticles. In that wind and shooting 223 (Most shots were in the 300 yd range some to 600) we would not have had much if any success without those reticles. I’ve always had a one shot one kill type of mentality when shooting rifles but that day was very humbling and I learned a lot about wind. Was also able to teach my boys a lot about hold over and wind call spotting for them through the same reticle, we all shot suppressed and the ability to see your misses and communicate with each other made it a great shooting lesson. [/QUOTE]
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