If you handload, load up some varmint rounds for the heavy barrel 25 with much lighter bullets. Then you still have your prairie antelope and deer cartridge, perhaps hogs as well, a rocking coyote rifle, and while it wouldn't be your only gun to reach for at a prairie dog town, it could still make the trip back to ND with you when you decide to come for a visit. Change up your ammo and you'll double the potential uses you do have with the rifle.
