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B&C Dirt Rat, taken with Sako Quad 17 HMR. Green score pending..



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Thanks for the pics. Nice Bull Snake. How far out were the targets? At close range the .17 HMR targets usually look more life the one on the right in the last picture.
Whereabouts in Montana were these taken? My wife and I are heading to the Chester/Inverness area in a week and I hope the gophers are still out in force. My son and I shot a few the second week of June, but I am afraid the wheat may be too tall by next week due to all the rain they have had this year.

Yah,
It be getting tall already. Was over by Conrad a couple of weeks ago and we were limited to shooting in the brown strips for the most part. Also has some good fun in some swales, but it was pushing late.
I tried some walkup with sticks in a green strip to stretch my legs (the mode was pickup) and it was just about not doable from the sit-with-sticks position. Just another factor to add to the planning for NEXT year.

These were ground squirrels, not gophers. Hinthint..

Merely out of ignorance to anything ground squirrel, are they edible?

Rancho makes a mean G squirrel stew!

It looks like September over there, still nice and green up here.

Sure! I'll cook some up for you...

With a reply like that I believe Ill pass....
They look so much like squirrels that I figured they may taste the same but Im sure their diet differs alot.

Awwwww come on!.....Man up to some "squirrel" stew!!


Ingwe

I seen Les Stroud eat one...

Did the bipod and shooting sticks thing for the first time in awhile yesterday. Sure was fun and I'm still amazed how steady one can get in the sitting/kneeling with a Harris. Prone was damned near cheating.

Nice shootin'.


Travis

Hell Im a hillbilly, Ill eat anything once. Yall fix it and Ill eat it.

"Rodent. It's not what's for dinner!"

For the hesitant or faint at heart we refer to gray squirrels as limb chickens or oak roosters when included in a hearty Brunswick Stew. "Praire Chicken" is already a known critter, so how about a grass chicken or range rooster stew? Accompanied by a pile of soda crackers, some Texas Pete and an icy ale, you'd fight over it tt35!

I'd reconsider that on those little flea biten rodents....

those things have plague and everything else under the sun..

plus once you hit one with a 223, there isn't enough left to make a very small McNugget out of it..

That junkyard was a ground squirrel kill box. They tee'd themselves up on every piece of crap down there for a good hour before they got wise.

The .223 was used when they tee'd on the corner post of the fence up behind the power pole. Gawd it blew them up good.

How much longer do you guys in montana get to shoot ground squirrels? Today was pretty much the last hunt for me in nevada. Around the first part of july they go down around here for the rest of the year. Gotta wait till next february now. On the plus side I did smoke a coyote with a 300 wsm and 150gr ballistic tip this morning. Pups should be coming out anytime now.

Gopher shootin' is pretty much wrapped up here on the Hi-Line. Pretty green up this way.


Travis

I was out shooting gophers around the Sweet Grass Hills and northwest toward the Canadian border the weekend before the Fourth. The grass is getting a bit high but we still had plenty of fields that had not grown up too high. We usually shoot off of ATVs there. When we are over in the Flathead Valley on the west side of the Rockies we usually walk the fields and shoot off of a tall bipod. The farmers and ranchers are just starting to cut and bale their grass, so we can be shooting until late August. As it warms up more the shooting is more limited to morning and evenings.

Nice area for sure VL.


Travis