How To Have A Great Prairie Dog Town To Shoot

There are about as many prairie dog hunters now as there are fleas on thousand dogs. That figure is more likely correct because our numbers grow so fast. There is a strategy I have used for over 47 years that is a Non fail system I use and I swear it will work in Montana or anywhere for that matter.

My first question to you as a deer hunter, when you go deer hunting, do you set quit or drive all over racing the motor on your truck, making all kind of noise when you get out and talk and laugh loud cheering about how much fun we are having? Well I certainly hope not!! Now why in thunder tarnation,would you do that Prairie Dog hunting? To me, that about sounds as silly as doing it deer hunting, but all the time expecting a huge kill. NOT happening, for long anyway.

I can only go by what I have been told,but there are a lot of prairie dog hunters that do this ,then only to complain about "not many dogs have been shot at" and everything in between.

Remedy and Cure

Take your shooting bench and set it up quitely and learn long range shooting and watch how many dogs you truly have. Set and have a great time, but for the love of GOD, please quit driving towns, ruining it for everyone else. I am not sure what or who started driving and shooting prairie dogs, but it certainly wasn't someone who knew dog habits.

I have a rule. When I go dog shooting myself and that rule is this... I only shoot dogs over 600 yards on this trip. Then next trip maybe over 500 to 600, but now with clients anything and everything is fair game. I do push learning and teach long range hunting though.

Larry Gene Pate

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