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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2010, 10:13:09 PM »
My dad was pruning his grapes earlier this week and saw a few out and about. Might be an early spring this year?  :dunno:   

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2010, 10:20:13 PM »
Sage rat shooting is FUN !!!  We have to take a roadtrip to Oregon every spring. Problem is you can never take enough guns or ammo!!!!
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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #17 on: January 30, 2010, 10:27:02 PM »
We use to head down to Prineville every spring to shoot the little *censored*s.  There is no telling how many .22 rounds and rats that we went through, and the occasional bonus coyote.

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #18 on: January 30, 2010, 10:45:28 PM »
I've heard about Oregon but have never had the need since I get to shoot as many as I want right hear.
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted..If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job." Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2010, 10:50:11 PM »
I normally go down and hook up with a friend that lives in John Day Oregon. We meet up at Fox Oregon and start shooting early on a Saturday morning shoot the full day then back to his place that night for a nice hot meal and shower. Then next day go back to fox and finish out the day before heading home. In the past I use a 22Lr Ruger MKII side slab handgun with a Millet red sot scope. Go through about 3000rds. to 4000rds. and weekend depending on the weather.Now I have a Remington 700 SPS varminter in 223rem. that I will have to break in on them rats. See how a 50gr. V-max works.
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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2010, 10:55:09 PM »
Anybody got a pic of a sage rat??
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Re: Sage rats!!!!
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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #22 on: January 30, 2010, 11:05:47 PM »
Nice pics sako. Now lets see the red mist pics.  :o

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2010, 11:36:27 PM »
At was a little weird you had all those photos and no dead ones? Your not a animal rights type of a guy are ya? Just messing with ya.  :chuckle:
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted..If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job." Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #24 on: January 30, 2010, 11:47:36 PM »
what.......no hero shots?

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2010, 12:06:25 AM »
Shooten them sage rats is one of my favorite things to do. Hell even the woman likes to go along and shoot em. I try to wait until they have there first batch of little ones before I hit up my spots, that way theres more to kill. And the little ones are really dumb.  :chuckle:

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2010, 12:47:00 AM »
Do you have to have a license to shoot sage rats? Just wondering cause the kids were asking.

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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2010, 12:57:15 AM »
Do you have to have a license to shoot sage rats? Just wondering cause the kids were asking.
I don't think so but I would check the with wdfw first just to make sure. Besides if a license is rquired it would be a small game so pick one up in case you see a coyote.
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Re: Sage rats!!!!
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2010, 03:53:03 AM »
Yeah I have pics of dead stuff here somewhere, but they are not nearly as photogenic. It takes more effort to get a good pose than it does to shoot them.


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Re: Sage rats!!!!
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