Shooting Prairie Dogs with a .50 BMG

Before You Comment - Read These Notes:
Why We Shoot Prairie Dogs:
1. They are large rodents; just like rats.
2. They are cannibals.
3. They destroy farmers crops.
4. They destroy ranchers' grazing lands and create cattle-crippling holes.
5. They're plague-carrying vermin.
6. Hunting is more humane than poisoning, which is what farmers and ranchers do.
7. To stop the spread of plague, numerous prairie rat towns are sometimes poisoned by the State. Poisoning can harm other wildlife.
8. They breed like, well, rats and don't have enough natural enemies to keep the population in check.

Hunting them:
1. Decreases the threat of plague.
2. Provides needed population control.
3. Helps farmers and ranchers and keeps your friend's grocery bills down.
4. Decreases the expenses of the state which otherwise has to engage in wide-spread poisoning.
5. Generates revenue for businesses (ammo sales, etc.) and the state (hunting licenses in states that require it).
6. Ammo and license sales fund state wildlife programs. No hunting, no wildlife management.

The Gun: Armalite AR-50A1 in .50 BMG, topped with a Burris Black Diamond scope, one heck of a rifle. We were just getting the rifle zeroed when we noticed some evil zombie prairie dogs on our rifle range. Unfortunately we didn't hit one. Oh well.

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[VortalStar]

That looks so fun, Jebus i wish i could hunt, but unfortunately i live in boring, horrible Britain,

[MadOgre]

@VortalStar If I lived there, Id hunt all those surveillance cameras.

[aR3DF0Xa]

@MadOgre theyre still on the endangered species list...

[MadOgre]

@aR3DF0Xa Not this species. Check with Utah's Fish and Game Department.

[saik0pod]

$5-$8 each per .50 BMG, you are actually Paying large sums to KILL Prarie dogs.

[MadOgre]

@saik0pod So?

[jubbles2343]

@VortalStar as a fellow Brit I have to point out you can own and shoot guns quite easily.I do just check out my channel for proof.

[genericity]

boom!

[Afrozombeh]

@ganjayoyokilla Exactly: it's a .50 caliber round that's hitting a target about twice the size of a squirrel. Now remember that a .50 has enough power to mist a mans head, skull and all. This is probably the most humane way to kill a prairie dog (not the cleanest though). I don't see how anyone could defend a position saying that this is wrong.

[ganjayoyokilla]

idk at least if you hit it with a 50 caliber round poor thing wont even know what hit him...

[Korruptor]

There is no such this as over-kill, nor over-spray! +)

[JRDEAN71]

Best $10 you ever spent? ;) where's the impact shot? This is no fun to watch!!

[flightsimdude123]

He exploded

[8Libertine8]

You just shot another animal's food and made life a little harder for it.