Jim,
An older friend of mine came to Montana for his first prairie dog shoot last year, bringing his only suitable rifle, a .22-250. A lot of people unacquainted with PD shooting bring a .22-250, but like most he found it kicked too much, the barrel really heated up quickly, and he didn't get to observe the immediate results of most of his shots--partly because he's old enough that he had a hard time seeing dogs, even through binoculars, at much over 150 yards. Of course, I'd brought a bunch of other rifles, including a .17 HMR, .17 Hornet, .22 Hornet and .204 Ruger, and he shot them all as well.
He's coming again next month, and bought himself a .17 HMR, since out to as far as he can see PD's mine worked very well--and he doesn't handload. Of course, he'll also be shooting some of my other rifles again. :-)
