2016 Trip #6 Wheatland, WY 5/4 – 5/6, Ash and I

2016 Trip #6

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First trip to Wyoming for the year.  The weather in Wyoming has been less than good for prairie dog shooting, wind, rain, wind, snow, did I mention wind.

 

But sooner or later the weather should clear, SHOULD.  The first day still had a nip in the air to start the day.  It warming up to near 70 degrees before the day ended around 5:00 PM.  It still didn’t warm enough to keep the prairie dogs active past 5:00 PM.  Even-tho it stayed light for over two more hours or so.  The second day started with light wind and sun shine, OH !! GOODY, GOODY.  It didn’t last, wind came up around noon and clouds moved in too cool things down a bit.  This ran the dogs down their holes early.  Third day went down hill before noon with clouds hiding the sun off and on making it hard to see the dogs that were out.  Thunderstorms on the horizon ran us out of the field around 2:00 PM.  We didn’t want to get caught way back off of the blacktop on questionable two-tracks.  As it was we just made it to solid roads before the first storm hit us.  Off to home to fight another day, damn.

 

We was hoping to see pups running all over the place, but sadly NOT!  A few came out in spots, but not many.  We shot 10 or 12 each, and they were hard to find.  About another week to ten days and they will be all over the place.

 

Most of the grass land had dried somewhat, but the two tracks were bad in places.  Got the truck muddy again.  Trucks are supposed to be muddy.

 

I took three rifles with me, hoping for more pups, took only small calibers, 17 Hornet, 221 FireBall, and the 222 Rem as my wind gun.

 

I used the Savage 17 Hornet on the first day and all day the second day; the rifle did fine, the scope didn’t.  At the end of each day we lost light because of clouds and the BSA just didn’t cut it, couldn’t see well with it at all.  Had to change to the 221 FireBall with the  6 – 24 X 50 scope with mil-dot and 30mm tube, much better.  I’ll be putting a TA 4 – 16 x 50 MD scope on this rifle real soon.

 

 

 

I did some shooting with the 221 Rem FireBall on the first and second day when the light went bad.  This rifle has a 10 year old 6 – 24 x 50 mil-dot scope that I’ve had on three different rifles over the years.  Like the old watch commercial “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking”.

 

The 222 Rem I used it on the third day, weather was off and on with the wind coming and going.

We shot 300 prairie dogs total, me 147