Been on the road, and just got back into town. The following is the rest of the story from my last prairie dog hunt with my .25 cal Marauder.
As I've mentioned in the past, I'm fortunate to own some very accurate airguns. They have to be accurate or they wouldn't be in my collection. Among that group are several that are extremely accurate, as in the cream of the crop accurate, and my Marauder .25 is in that elite group.
Last year, I hunted prairie dogs, shooting the Kodiak 30.8 grain pellets, this year, I'm hunting the Benji, 27.8 grain domes. Excellent long range performance with either pellet.
Among the traditional small bore airgun calibers, the .25 caliber is in a league all its own. The energy these Benji pellets carry down range is impressive. The job they do upon impact with a prairie dog is even more impressive.
I prefer head shots, but even upper body, heart lung shots with a .25 caliber pellet, pretty much drop them in their tracks. Every once in awhile I'll have one that will run a few feet, but not often. That .25 caliber wound channel shuts things down in a hurry.
The way the prairie dogs typically react at pellet impact, is pretty impressive also. The energy delivered, many times, will pick them up, spin them around, or knock them completely off of their mounds, even at 90 to 100 yards.
The performance I'm getting from my .25 cal Marauder is everything I had hoped for, and then some.
Here's a refresher video showing a SteelPlinker quadrant paddle target, being hit with the 27.8 grain Benji domes at 50 yards. This really displays well, the power the Benji's are carrying down range with them. No wonder they really pound a prairie dog at impact. The first clip just shows the last two shots I took on a prairie chuck target, after final sight-in. I put three on the one inch spinner in the middle, and then purposely hit each paddle in a different location, to show how they react with different pellet impact locations. The video runs first in real time, and then in slow motion.
Below, are some more video clips from my last prairie dog hunt with my .25 Marauder. They may take 20/30 seconds to load, and run for about 3 minutes 22 seconds.
My pellet of choice for prairie dog hunting this year.
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