15-22 Hunting/Varmint/Pest Kill Pic Thread

[roadkill45]

groundhogs correct? that's what we called them back east. there seems to be differences between the states what is a whistle pig, ground hog, ground squirrel, gopher and prairie dog!
some of the ground hogs back in IN in the bean fields were BIG and we took them with a .22-250 from the way back fence. When i go to Seligman,AZ for prairie dogs (thousands of them) use a .223 since you are a ways off, aside from Caddyshack, differentiating a gopher from a ground squirrel maybe my issue!!!

is that a PEPR mount on your gun? I took off my EOtech w/G33 and put on a different AR, and was running a C-More railway on the 15-22. great for steel comp but for hunting not so much. i have a very nice high dollar FFP 1-4 in a PEPER mount but it is pretty heavy and kind of negates the lightness of the 15-22 for taking afield for bunnies or whatever.
i may have to change it out from the C-More to the 1-4 since we don't shoot much in the summer here.

[Gopher Slayer]

Columbian Ground Squirrels are what they are, but us ranchers just call them gophers. These guys get about as big as a can of spray paint. They whistle and let you know when they're up and ready to be shot.

Yep, it's a PEPR. The 1-4 is definitely heavier than a dot, but it's perfect on the 22 for the close up shots. My AR takes out anything past 50-60 yards.

[roadkill45]

i put the PEPR with the Weaver Super Slam 1.5-6 on the 15-22 last night, will have to bore sight as soon as i get it back from being 'borrowed'!! I usually just zero at 20-25 yards using an AAC Pilot II and SS rounds, that way i'm basically MPBR at anything 60 yards and in.
I have plenty of AR's and long range guns for reach out and get them. AZ is not like Montana's open areas, most of AZ is scrub, hilly desert and washes so hunting predators usually means my shotgun with Dead Coyote choke and 3" #4 shot along with a 16" Gemtech canned Spike build with an EO EXPS-1 and 3x magnifier. really don't need anything greater than 4-6 power here.
everyone who has not been hunting in AZ thinks it's this wide open desert...not!
course everyone who watches Les Johnson in WY or MT sees him taking 600 yard shots across the plain.

[Gopher Slayer]

Sounds like a nice setup for your area.

I'm in S.W. Montana close to the Bitterroots/Pintlers. The long flat areas around here are our hayfields, and the rest is hills and mountains. The other side of Montana is the flat and wide-open side.

If I could kill a coyote around here with a shotgun it would be something to brag about. I always have to hit them on the move at least 150 yards away. I don't hunt them too much anymore. Their numbers have thinned out since they brought the damn wolves back.

[roadkill45]

we have the mexican gray wolf but it is a protected species, would love to get to ID on a wolf hunt!! I got a half wolf half coyote up on the Grand Canyon rim, was 6'5" from tip of nose to tip of tail! he is on the wall!!
yeah shotguns are the standard down here in the scrub. a lot of guys use ladders or 12' tripod stands to get elevated but you need to find a tree to blend in with and there are none that high down here. i sit on my dove bucket, ASAT camo, next to a mesquite bush and call. they will come right to the mojo critter decoy at 20 yards out....boom..DRT #4!
Bob with a SG:

[yrkgns]

Originally Posted by roadkill45

used to coon hunt every winter growing up in IN! same blue hounds in your pic plus we had black and tans and beagles for bunnies. that's a lot of pelts! what were they going for this year?

I got 28 in the raw, for the ones in the truck.
The bunch in the pic with the Big Blue Tick, I got 50 per from a taxidermist. He wanted all Jumbos, and I filled his order in one night. That Blue Tick could strike coon from the back of the truck like you dream about.

[Watchdog]

Originally Posted by Fr1endlyF1re

I think we have our winner.

Yeah, a winner. That's really something to be proud of, isn't it?

[roadkill45]

that's quite a bit of payout for fur. wish we had those prices over on my side of the country! Watchdog, is that sarcasm in that post? this is a varmint thread, that was a lot of pelts that brought in a lot of money and took care of some nuisance animals at that.............

[roadkill45]

Originally Posted by fat tom

f.t.

Although, i hate to do this but on this barn pic:
Newspaper Profiles Canadian Known for Coyote Trapping | Trapper Predator Caller

"Marty Senneker, of Alberta, Canada, is known in trapping circles for his expertise in coyote trapping (that’s him in the barn photo above) and his instructional DVDs, but he just became a little more well known outside of the trapping community. Marty was featured today in a Post Prairie story about his career as a trapper."

I think the comment from Marty at the end of the story wraps it up perfectly:

“I love to trap, being out in nature and experiencing nature to the
fullest. I get into the most beautiful places in southern Alberta. I
love the sounds and see the sights daily, and feel sorry for those in
the city stuck in an office.

“I sure love what I do. I get to experience God’s creation to the fullest.”

- See more at: Newspaper Profiles Canadian Known for Coyote Trapping | Trapper Predator Caller