Sage rats

[Jamieb]

A couple of buddies and I went down to enterprise Or. this weekend and shot sage rats.
I killed a couple of hundred with 2- .223's and a 22-250 along with a bunch up close with a couple of 22  mags.
The only pictures I got were of a couple of 22.mag kills.

[Sliverslinger]

Awesome! We are heading to Burns on Memorial Weekend. I'm so stored I can barely contain myself, I look forward to this trip every year.

[JohnVH]

whistle pigs, Im hoping to slay a bunch next weekend!

[CastleRocker]

Went last weekend for our first time ever.  Wow what a blast! 

Bring duct tape or bandaids for your thumb though, as mine is still sore from loading magazines.   I only had two magazines for the Marlin and went through 1200+ rounds of HMR in three days.  We were down by Merril, OR hunting private ground.  Looking forward to going again soon. 

Would like to find somewhere a bit closer though.  Has anyone ever been down to shoot them in Christmas Valley, Crane, or Burns?  I've heard good things about that area.

[Oneshot1Kill]

That 22 mag does a number! I've only been able to blow ones head clean off with my .223. Though 22 mag is looking like a cheaper way to go!

[Blacklab]

These type of threads are getting to me. I had a dream last night. I was deer hunting in a new area E wa. Came up to a big open saddle just looking around and started seeing pd running around playing. All I could do was pull out the gps to mark the spot. Then I woke up. Crap!!!! didn't even get to take one shot  . There ought to be a law....  

[high country]

My dad lives on the john day river near spray, or. We have been going broke on ammo do to sand rats. A couple hundred a day every day is easy as pie.

[npaull]

I hate to be "that guy" and I'm going to get flamed, (and I won't post in this thread again just so it doesn't drag on forever) but...

This is the kind of thing people were doing *before* passenger pigeons went extinct (or before bison almost went extinct, or the great auk, or a multitude of different shore birds, waterfowl, etc). It also quite possibly could be the most damaging kind of activity to the reputation of hunters as a group. Anything that can be said in defense of this sort of thing WAS being said about any of the aforementioned extinct or nearly-extinct animals I listed (there's actually an incredible amount of literature preserved about people commenting on how many bison, passenger pigeons, etc they shot).

I kill deer, I kill ducks - I've got no problem killing animals. But shooting *hundreds* of anything wild, and throwing them away (if you're eating them or they're destroying your crops, I retract most of this post)... I gotta say it, guys, sorry.

It's disgusting.

[Jamieb]

npaull

If you hate to be" that guy" then then dont respond to topics that you know nothing about.
You are that guy that I hate, the kind of guy that has to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong because you think you know better then the rest of us.
I'm not going to try to defend anything posted in this thread as I don't argue on the Net, Facts,knowledge, and personal experience wouldn't change a mind driven by emotion anyway.

[BOWHUNTER45]

I hate to be "that guy" and I'm going to get flamed, (and I won't post in this thread again just so it doesn't drag on forever) but...

This is the kind of thing people were doing *before* passenger pigeons went extinct (or before bison almost went extinct, or the great auk, or a multitude of different shore birds, waterfowl, etc). It also quite possibly could be the most damaging kind of activity to the reputation of hunters as a group. Anything that can be said in defense of this sort of thing WAS being said about any of the aforementioned extinct or nearly-extinct animals I listed (there's actually an incredible amount of literature preserved about people commenting on how many bison, passenger pigeons, etc they shot).

I kill deer, I kill ducks - I've got no problem killing animals. But shooting *hundreds* of anything wild, and throwing them away (if you're eating them or they're destroying your crops, I retract most of this post)... I gotta say it, guys, sorry.

It's disgusting.

Think thats why we call them VARMITS ... So many of them you could not kill em all if you tried .....all they do is dig holes everywhere and they make for some awesome target shooting 

[BOWHUNTER45]

npaull

If you hate to be" that guy" then then dont respond to topics that you know nothing about.
You are that guy that I hate, the kind of guy that has to stick his nose in where it doesn't belong because you think you know better then the rest of us.
I'm not going to try to defend anything posted in this thread as I don't argue on the Net, Facts,knowledge, and personal experience wouldn't change a mind driven by emotion anyway.

NOW NOW 

[seth30]

Wow at least buy him some flowers

[seth30]

I would leave them out in a pile and put a trail camera on it, unless your on public land that is.

[npaull]

sigh

[Jamieb]

Come back to a pasture 1/2 hour after shooting in one and it's full of birds, eagles,ravens,hawks, and a bunch more. The yotes and badgers wont come out until after the sun goes down. I've drove around the ranch at night with a spot light and seen yotes but I didnt have a Or. huunting license so I didnt shoot any.