Prairie dog taken at 97 yards with .25 Marauder.
I cannot think of a better way to get familiar with a rifle and its capabilities, than to immerse yourself in a multi day hunt with that rifle, in a relatively target rich environment.
That's precisely what I did. I just returned from a three and a half day prairie dog hunt, where I used my .25 caliber Benjamin Marauder exclusively during the hunt.
The first time I hunted with her, about a week or so ago, I limited my shots to the 50 to 70 yard range. I was just getting a feel for the gun and what she could do. It was a very successful hunt, and I was more than pleased with the performance of the .25 caliber Marauder.
This time out, I decided to let this pony run. She was consistently taking prairie dogs from 69 yards out to just over 100 yards. I was shooting the Beeman Kodiak 30.7 grain pellets.
This years prairie dog pups are above ground now, and relatively plentiful. In a few more weeks they will be a lot bigger, and a lot wiser. Probably 80 percent of the shots I had on this hunt were at young dogs. They make for very challenging targets. At this point in time, they are only about one third to one half the size of an adult prairie dog.
These two were given a pass. They were watching me from about twenty feet away as I was getting my gear ready to hunt. Young and dumb. These are the guys that the badgers and hawks are making a living on right now. The coyotes are probably scoring their fair share too.
If that old expression about a picture being worth a thousand words is true, then a video must be worth tens of thousands more. These clips will demonstrate the effectiveness of the .25 cal Marauder as a hunting rifle better than I ever could using words alone.
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The .25 cal Marauder is an excellent hunting rig. It's as accurate as anything out there, and has power to spare.
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