Varminters Beware!

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Bob Locke

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Watch what you're shooting at!

WASHINGTON –– The Clinton administration said the black-tailed prairie dog warrants protection as a threatened species but stopped short Thursday of imposing politically controversial restrictions on developers and ranchers while states work on ways to preserve the rodent.

A pest to many but a beloved critter to others, the prairie dog will be added to a list of candidates for threatened status under the Endangered Species Act and its status will be reviewed annually.

But the Fish and Wildlife Service said it is dealing with too many other plants and wildlife that are in more danger, such as the lynx and mountain plover, to take on protecting the prairie dog.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000203/aponline163401_000.htm
 
A pest to many

Like the people who own the land that the dawgs play havoc with?

but a beloved critter to others,

Like the pasty-faced PETA activists who never get out of the city?

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Funny, but those pasty faced PETA activists may not know that without those varminters paying good money to farmers to shoot the dogs, the farmers would have no incentive to keep them alive. There will be mass poisonings if they move to protect it, and you can bet millions will die overnight!
Keyes addressed the issue like this when talking to elementary school kids: Who eats chickens? A: Everybody! Q: So if everybody in America eats chickens, then chickens are extinct right? A: Nooooo! So if all 270,000,000 people in America are eating chickens and they aren't extinct but actually have healthy populations, could it be that some people stand to make a profit from keeping chickens from going extinct?
 
"P E T A" -

People Eating Tasty Animals - right?

CMOS

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GOA, TSRA, LEAA, NRA, SAF and I vote!
 
I'm within a few miles of PETA's national offices in Norfolk, VA. Man, will I be glad when I get moved to Colorado!

In the meantime, a group of folks are planning to have a BBQ in the parking lot adjacent to PETA's building once it warms up just a tad. That ought to be a hoot!
 
One of the local radio stations here does a fishing tourney around their building every summer. It is always a great time. The radio station is FM99.

What really gets me about those folks is that a majority of them have cars with leather interiors and they were leather shoes...

TR
 
I am going to start my own varminters group called P.E.C.R. People Exploding Cute Rodents. Do you think that would upset PETA? You would think that PETA would be for varminters. What is more ethical painless vaporizing by high velocity projectiles or slow agonizing death by poison. Poison that ends up killing other animals after they eat the dead prairie dogs.
 
No surprise here. :rolleyes:

Wyoming hasn't considered the wolf or grizzly endangered for a long time and has asked the feds to remove the grizzy from the list. We still have informational sections in our hunting proclamations (regulation booklets) detailing the grizzly hunt, but the season is listed as closed. Wolves are legally defined as predators with the same state laws as apply to coyotes (no license requiered to bag one), but the feds say they are protected.

Every year there is a mauling or some problem bear that has to be shot. The frequency of these incidents are increasing every year and are due to the dense population of bears in Yellowstone trying to move into neighboring areas. People are starting to sight grizzlys every year where I live (300 miles form yellowstone), but the feds always turn a deaf ear to our requests. I think its just a matter of time until we get the right folks in office that will allow common sense and reason to prevail again. (Looking forward to a hunting season, but I'm not holding my breath!) :rolleyes:

Now Clinton is going to declare the black tailed prarie dog endangered? These things aren't as common as the the other types, but come on, endangered? I've been thinking that the only endangered thing in the conservation movement is common sense! We might as well fence off the entire west and tell everyone they have to live in cities. Maybe the feds think we'd be easier to manage that way.................
 
Oh sweet Mary!

They are ground squirrels for gawdssakes...rodents, vermin.

The reason bubonic plague is decimating them is because there are too many! Simple epidemiology.
In truth, this is merely one more means for the Feds to control land and people.

Be an American Patriot...shoot a black-tailed prarie dog, shoot lots of them. Then shoot their non black-tailed cousins.

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
I couldnt help but smile when I read the posts about the BBQ and the fishing tourney near PETA's hq. You remind me of myself sometimes, aint it fun to be just a lil bit evil? Are all these people vegetarians? If not,Here is an idea..someone donate a deer roast or 2 to the BBQ, wonder how many will make the remark "Boy that sure smells good!" when they pass by?
 
Going this spring to help reduce their number.


I'm just doing my part.... :D

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
Be careful of this guy!

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[This message has been edited by PEA SHOOTER (edited February 05, 2000).]
 
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!

DC....If your ever near Jacksonville, FL I will buy you a huge beer!

PEA SHOOTER....My nads still hurt from laughing so hard!

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DOCSpanky HM3 USN
Happiness is a smoking gun and a dead criminal;)
 
The way I look at it. Once I shoot them with a balistic tip you will not know what color the tail was :)

Jon...
 
Luckily, I've a 6x24X scope on the trusty .22-250. Wouldn't want to "accidentally" bang a black-tip.

In Boulder/CO, I betcha they've got black-death infected dogs runnin' the streets - "but they're so cute!"

Where's that smiley that draws 'n shoots ... need another w/rifle/dog combo.

If these critters are so danged special, God will most certainly sort them out.
 
Yorek:

Nice to see another Wyoming guy on TFL. Several years ago my brother and I were out shooting prarie dogs near Medicine Bow. Along comes a whole bunch of Game and Fish guys with trailers and little chicken coop looking things. Turned out we were blasting the little rodents right in the middle of the black footed ferret re-introduction project. Talk about politically incorrect.

Pea Shooter:

Mind if I swipe your GIF? It deserves to be shared.
 
EXTINCT!!!???? Has our Dips**t in Chief ever seen western South Dakota in the summer?! He couldn't count the number of these infestive little vermin....he probably can't count, period. This urban moron has obviously never seen what used to be a pasture, turned into a DESERT with holes by these "CUTE" creatures. So much livestock has been lost because of cattle and horses having broken their legs by stepping into holes, and falling in these prairie dog "towns". We've had more than one horseman paralyzed for life by falling from his mount, due to the horse tripping into a digging. What's this ***hole going to dream up next? If we survive his "executive orders" until the elections it will be a miracle! Costa Rica is looking better every day!- Dakotan
 
It's a tribute to the resilience of OUR COUNTRY that it can survive these do-gooders that come into power every so often!

But, it's still rape.

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