we are back in eastern Montana round two of prairie dog a Palooza
oh my gosh that was epic
I mean they're nuisance out here they just tear up the grazing land
prairie dogs about as good of a practice as you can get when it comes to big-game hunting so
that's what we're gonna do today got them see if we can send some dog
into orbit
Houston we have lift off!
see them on the mound yep oh there now do it now
pretty awesome I've never
shot a triple before it let alone seen a triple on video
I'm gonna do a prairie dog city two we're gonna see if we can find prairie
dogs with all the tall grass
it's been a really really wet spring so we can like
hardly even see prairie dogs let alone shoot them so not the norm up here being
this wet but you can see we can do
shoot 'em
that was a hit
yes they have no idea they're babies shoot another one
oh you skinned his back
he's 124
go ahead
we're just gonna put the BDX system to use and what that is is a Sig
rangefinder which is the kilo 3000 range finding binos and it communicates with
the scope the Sierra BDX this happens to be a three and a half to ten on the 22-250
so what we have here is a Bluetooth connection through the app on
my phone right here at my phone scope so via the app both devices connect and I'm
ranging with the by knows the range is sending the information to the scope and
then the reticle in the scope adjusts accordingly to the range because my
specs to my 22-250 are preloaded in app in the device we're shooting a 55 grain
bullet varmint bullet we're going 3,200 feet per second which is a little slow
but we have a pretty short barrel it's 20 inches and so I think to really get
my accuracy that I need with the velocity that's a little higher I'd
have to get a faster burning powder and I just don't have that in this gun I think
at 35 grains of varget and see how many prairie dogs we can kill
so to 286
yes again again
that got 'em
that's what I like to see
nope he's back down give 'em a second oh he's back up one more step and then put it right in
his hiney sounds bad for the video
got 'em
see that little pecker out then standing up on his hind end
oh right by his head I don't know how you missed
I don't know either
hear that one laughing at you
oh [laughs]
shot his leg off
got 'em
there there's a pile of 'em on that mound
there you'll get one Oh grazed them here right there
yes
at least you can shoot you were killing a couple just proof a blind man can kill
that's right I can kill something yeah
proud of you
well hey you know I learned it from you how to shoot so
he just admitted that
we are back in eastern Montana for kind of round 2 of
prairie dog a Palooza
so we're here mid-august
everything is dried out of course the lady behind the camera is a new hunter
and so we're gonna do just what we need to do to really develop that shooting
skill trigger control aim small miss small prairie dogs about is good at
practices you can get when it comes to big-game hunting so that's what we're
gonna do today
so these are key little shooting mats out here because there's
cactus and stuff eberlestock shooting mats beautiful great invention
lightweight we can just lay out here in this cactus country prone and just pick
off dogs all afternoon so got a couple of these in here
this six-five creedmoor it's a little bit of an overkill but we have lots of ammo
so we're gonna just practice with this and this is the rifle that Eva's gonna
hunt with this fall so she's practicing with her hunting rifle it doesn't get
any better than this so I'm gonna slap the old swagger on here and attach this
to the gun pretty sure what goes through a prairie dogs head is whoa Bob just
exploded let's go eat them they do that they're cannibals out here
grab the 22-250 all right let's go see what we can do
perfect little vantage point
we're gonna set up our mats we're gonna get Eva on the gun we're gonna be
blowing some up
I'm gonna get the BDX going 192 yeah hold up on this neck get them
right next to him
there you go
Wow great shot
doubles
so these are 198
but try to see if you can wait till they stand up on their haunches
yes great shot
we have permission to hunt on different properties around it's always important
to have onX hunt and that allows us just to see the property boundaries even
if there's not fences out here kind of out in the middle of nowhere so a lot of
this grazing land there's no fences parcels of public around our private so
I'm not gonna show you guys where I'm at because this is a my prairie dog shooting
spot but once you find a good spot and get permission usually most ranchers
landowners if you can get to know somebody they'll let you come back and
shoot them cattle step in the holes break their legs horses whatever you can
find public pieces that that have prairie dogs too just a little tip ooh
there's something running out here too -
ready kill some more
I don't know if you got him or not
oh my gosh he's like totally sun bathing out there
I'll call out a prairie dog and I'll shoot the range and the binocular sends
the range to the scope and goes down on the reticle and she knows exactly where
to hold fun to use that BDX technology someone like you you haven't shot too
much and so she jumped right into the technology
Houston we have lift off
that's quite the pile there
there you go just squeeze a
nice one
oh there now do it now
pretty awesome I've never shot a triple before let alone
seen a triple on video
just remember that if you have a new hunter anybody really like it's good
practice for any rifle hunter trigger control practice that squeeze shooting
targets at the range or gongs at the range only gets just so much practice
and nothing beats the real experience of hunting