Sage Rats

[Heredoggydoggy]

Got back last night from a weekend of Ground Squirrel shooting in Oregon.  My buddy, his son, and I probably killed 350-400 rats total.  Weather was beautiful!

What Caliber were you guys using?

My buddy was using a .223 AR, I used .17 HMR mostly, but shot 100 rounds each of .17 Fireball and 22 K-Hornet.  The kid used his 22 LR.  Got a few close ones with my 22 pistol.

[Special T]

I just got back as well. Shot mostly the 22lr and the 17hmr. My cuz picked up some FMJ 17 for 10.99 at bi-mart in or an his way up. Everywhere around me it was expensive. Sat morning shooting was great as was most of Friday, but it rained on us and the temp dropped and blew hard on sat so we left Sun... Had a great time and manged to loose all my poker money to our hosts high school kid! Good times!

[Heredoggydoggy]

The weather can change there in a heartbeat--especially at 4,000+ ft. where we were.  The Friday afternoon we were there a blizzard came up, and the rats were still running around!  On the drive back to the motel, we could barely see 50 feet ahead of the truck.  10 minutes after we got to the motel the snow stopped and it was calm.  Next 2 days was perfect weather.

[Special T]

Where abouts did you go? we went near Burns.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Where abouts did you go? we went near Burns.

We go to the northeast corner.  The Enterprise/Joseph area of the Wallowa Valley.

[boneaddict]

Wenas (sheep country road) has quite a few. With all the "shooters" that go out there to the ranges etc.  I was surprised to see so many.  Little buggers kept running across the road last night as I was headed out there.......by the way, got checked for a discovery pass, so I'd say the emphasis patrols are still out there.