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Offline Gringo31

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Sage Rats
« on: February 01, 2012, 02:25:38 PM »
There have been a few showing up already....
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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 02:54:08 PM »
More reliable than a ground hog.     

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 02:56:52 PM »
 :yike:  HECK YEAH!!!   :yike:  :IBCOOL:  :IBCOOL:

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 08:15:58 PM »
Yakina Valley?  I am getting the itch to go shoot a few.

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2012, 08:08:28 AM »
They seem to be popping out sooner and sooner every year.  I better get another case of 17hmr's ordered...  :)

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2012, 08:35:12 AM »
Man, I need a spot. We don't seem to have any around Spokane. I would LOVE to shoot some sage rats!!!

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2012, 10:25:22 AM »
Wile E. actually I've seen quite a few sage rats around Spokane BUT they are always in areas you CAN'T shoot them.  Like around Felts Field.  Alot of sage rats right around there but you can't shoot them and there is a open field out behind that Church on the NW corner of Argonne & Bigelow that has lots of sage rats.  But, again, you can't shoot them. 

To me, that makes it alot worse.  To see em but can't blast em.......  :(

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2012, 07:09:03 PM »
Wile E. actually I've seen quite a few sage rats around Spokane BUT they are always in areas you CAN'T shoot them.  Like around Felts Field.  Alot of sage rats right around there but you can't shoot them and there is a open field out behind that Church on the NW corner of Argonne & Bigelow that has lots of sage rats.  But, again, you can't shoot them. 

To me, that makes it alot worse.  To see em but can't blast em.......  :(
That's my experience too. I guess I misstated the facts. They're here, I can't shoot them. I need access to some that I can SHOOT!

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2012, 08:38:55 PM »
That seems to be the same problem in the tricities they seem to hang out in places you can't shoot

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2012, 11:48:06 AM »
It's the same way with freakin groundhogs.  I see them basterds all over the place in Spokane but NEVER anywhere I can shoot em.  :(

Same in T/C area.  Especially around those Corp of Eng. parks on the Snake River.  Dang, i've seen tons of groundhogs around those parks for years but for obvious reason I can't shoot em....  >:(

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2012, 12:03:11 PM »
I've never seen one in tri cities. We shot a bunch with pellet guns year over by grandview. Had a blast!!!

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2012, 12:54:18 PM »
Are those places you could try and squewer the ground hogs with a long bow shot?80-100 yards?
In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself. 

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Re: Sage Rats
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2012, 05:34:54 PM »
Got. 8 a few days ago with the AR! LOVING IT!

 


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