My Favorite Prairie dog rifle

[69precision]

204R all the way! Mine is a Savage target action, Rifle Basics trigger, xcaliber barrel 11 twist. Loves 40 grain vmax bullets groups seldom go over 1/4 inch at 100. 39 grain Sierra bullets shoot even better. 400 yard dogs are in big trouble with this rifle. I have many kills over 600.

Similar. I'm running a savage LRPV in 204 ruger with a leupold mark 4 m5. Stupid accurate. Steel or prairie dogs out to 600 have been a blast. This summer will be in northern Arizona at 7000 ft elevation and want to push it to 1000.

 

[MaxRager]

It's a toss up… CZ527 204 Ruger Boyd's AT one stock, AR15 204 Ruger 24in Lilja barrel both with Arken SH4-4x16

 

[RTK]

My favorite is a rem 700 trued with a brux heavy varmint contour shooting 62gr vamageddon.

 

[SLAYIN'SWEDE]

I've never shot the big PD's but I've shot a lot of Gophers/Ground Squirrels. It's hard to pick a favorite but the easy button is the Practical...just neck down some LC range brass and go shoot! I had a seasoned varmint shooter tell me once "They're like golf clubs you need a few for different distances!"
The .20's are where it's at, on a 2 day Gopher trip last year I took a buddy for his first time and he put together a 20 Practical right before we went but also brought his 223 bolt gun...he enjoyed shooting the Practical so much he never even put a round through the 223 and on the way home ordered everything to build a 20 PPC...LOL
My rifles,
Rem 7 300BO action, 24" Pac-Nor in 11 twist barrel in 20 VarTarg shooting 32gr Varmageddon or 32gr V-Max @ 3800
Savage 12FV action, 24" Shilen 12 twist barrel in 20 PPC shooting 40gr V-max @ 3900
Savage 12FV action, 24" X-Caliber 11 twist barrel in 20 Practical shooting 32gr Varmageddon @ 4300
Impact NBK action, 24" X-Caliber 9 twist barrel in 20 BR shooting 55gr Bergers @ 3600

 

[budlight]

To really get into the red mist club it takes HP. Lots of velocity with frangible pills. The higher FPS 22's are a good start. .243 Rem with 72 grain or even the 87's really work. my257 roberts AI with 87's and 26 inch barrel exceeding 3500 fps. My 29 inch 270AI and 110's really do a number.

 

[Shrapnel]

Too many to list, but I do like the 223 sized cartridges the most. The 204 Ruger is a favorite with a suppressor…

 

[Shrapnel]

This is an extremely rare Cooper in 17CCM…