praire dog load
#1
Fork Horn
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praire dog load
Looking for a praire dog load for my savage 12 fv 1 in 9 twist. Criteria is inexpensive bullet, fairly fast and shoot under .5 moa. I was shooting the barnes varminators in front of H335 but barnes stopped making them shot well under .5 best group at .25 or a hair under.
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2006
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RE: praire dog load
50 grain V-max should do just fine. About 3300 fps?? Sounds good to me. I fully concur with your powder choice. This bullet shoots real well in my RR Varmint. I am looking forward to the day I can chase PD's with this outfit. Tom.
#4
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RE: praire dog load
what exactly do you consider inexpensive?? because with me when P-dog season rolls around I put the V-max's away and whip out the $45 for 500 bulk Hornady SXSP's in 50 grains. out of my Savage model 10FP these bullets are grouping under an inch at 200 yards.
#6
Nontypical Buck
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RE: praire dog load
I have got to get in on this PD shooting. It sounds like you guys are having way too much fun. I got to hunt Jack's a few times in Arizona, and it was the most fun I have ever had. We did that with 22LR's and 22 Magnums.
I thought V-Max bullets were fairly inexpensive, but if you guys are doing so much PD shooting that V-Max cost is prohibitive-then WOW I have got to get in on this. Our ground hog hunting here in WV and PA has went down hill a good bit. Alot of people blame that on coyotes. I do not know why, I just know that it has gone down hill. Tom.
I thought V-Max bullets were fairly inexpensive, but if you guys are doing so much PD shooting that V-Max cost is prohibitive-then WOW I have got to get in on this. Our ground hog hunting here in WV and PA has went down hill a good bit. Alot of people blame that on coyotes. I do not know why, I just know that it has gone down hill. Tom.
#7
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RE: praire dog load
ORIGINAL: WhitBri
I would want my bullets under $10 a hundred. I know my rifle can shoot the v-maxes and the sierras great, but aren't worth using for a praire dog load.
I would want my bullets under $10 a hundred. I know my rifle can shoot the v-maxes and the sierras great, but aren't worth using for a praire dog load.
#8
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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RE: praire dog load
ORIGINAL: HEAD0001
I have got to get in on this PD shooting. It sounds like you guys are having way too much fun. I got to hunt Jack's a few times in Arizona, and it was the most fun I have ever had. We did that with 22LR's and 22 Magnums.
I thought V-Max bullets were fairly inexpensive, but if you guys are doing so much PD shooting that V-Max cost is prohibitive-then WOW I have got to get in on this. Our ground hog hunting here in WV and PA has went down hill a good bit. Alot of people blame that on coyotes. I do not know why, I just know that it has gone down hill. Tom.
I have got to get in on this PD shooting. It sounds like you guys are having way too much fun. I got to hunt Jack's a few times in Arizona, and it was the most fun I have ever had. We did that with 22LR's and 22 Magnums.
I thought V-Max bullets were fairly inexpensive, but if you guys are doing so much PD shooting that V-Max cost is prohibitive-then WOW I have got to get in on this. Our ground hog hunting here in WV and PA has went down hill a good bit. Alot of people blame that on coyotes. I do not know why, I just know that it has gone down hill. Tom.
#9
RE: praire dog load
that would be my suspicion exactly coyotes breed like rabbits.. one **** is capable of producing asmany as 4 litters a year with asmany as 6 pups surviving per litter than the female pups are breedable at 6 months old its possible for one litter to produce asmany as 42 more yotes in just 1 year and if not enough natural predators or hunters are doing enough to lower yote populations then yer gonna see a decline in small game species since a coyotes diet can consume their body weight worth of small game per day
#10
Fork Horn
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RE: praire dog load
I totally agree with you howler on the bullet part anyways don't know anything about the breeding habits of coyotes. I demand the accuracy out of my pd loads. I still think half the fun is taking the 400 yd plus shots and connecting.