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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: Gringo31 on February 07, 2013, 06:40:14 AM

Title: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Gringo31 on February 07, 2013, 06:40:14 AM: I saw both sage rats and rock chucks out yesterday...

FYI
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Swag on February 07, 2013, 06:45:03 AM: Of course you did.... >:(
You obviously weren't looking for coyotes!!!! :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: BIGINNER on February 07, 2013, 06:45:52 AM: yep I saw quite a bit last Saturday. ;) can't wait to go out and shoot some.
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: boneaddict on February 07, 2013, 06:52:47 AM: Skunks are out too. Spring is almost upon us
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: VarmintVentilator on February 07, 2013, 03:34:28 PM: Quote from: Swag on February 07, 2013, 06:45:03 AM
Of course you did.... >:(
You obviously weren't looking for coyotes!!!! :dunno: :dunno: :dunno:

:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: That was good! :peep:
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: GreginWA on February 07, 2013, 06:22:33 PM: I want to go for Sage rats!!!

:(

Western WA sucks.
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Dbax129 on February 08, 2013, 12:53:11 AM: :yeah:

I lost my dad last June (motorcycle accident). That was one of our favorite things to do. We could get 10-25 rock chucks a day in another field. But that was better use for the .17hmr.
Anybody know of a place to go get some of those vermin? Preferably off of I-90, and the closer to the west side the better...
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: j_h_nimrod on February 10, 2013, 01:50:55 AM: I am in the Wenatchee area and would love to find a place for sage rats, prairie dogs, or ground hogs. I have not found any close and miss the shoots.

Anyone have an area they would share?
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Dbax129 on February 10, 2013, 11:52:03 AM: If you contact just about any farmer in the Yakima valley I think you would be received pretty well. I think it was a grape or apple farmer that let me and my Dad shoot them as much as we wanted, and paid us $.10 for each body we brought him. Paid for some of our ammo, I think the .22 we were using was about $.04 per round, but it was obviously just for fun and helping him out. He hated those little buggers. Sure wish I could remember where on earth that was...
Also, I worked with a guy who used to shoot them in Idaho a lot, and he found spots by calling county and farming town sheriff's offices and asked them if any of their deputies knew of good spots. He said that yielded the best spots he ever had ever been able to shoot on.
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Chukar on February 10, 2013, 12:34:01 PM: Just remember... This type is a no shooter.
Most of the Yakima/Wenas "sage rats" are this type of rodent. Washington State Ground Squirrel is a protected species.
Title: Re: Sage Rats are out...
Post by: Dbax129 on February 10, 2013, 01:02:21 PM: This converstation about what type is protected, and what is a "sage rat" is continued in another topic for anybody interested or with any input...
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,118125.0.html (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,118125.0.html)