Montana Flying Prairie Dog Circus

goody523 · Post by **goody523** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:09 am

Posted by popular demand in a previous thread, here are more photos of the Montana trip we recently took. The prairie dogs out there are very talented in acrobatics, however they only seem to want to give one performance before they are all worn out (inside out, in fact) and you have to go find one of their buddies and train them to perform.

ACT 1 - Fred Does a Reverse Half Gainer

ACT 2 - Tom Does a Triple Lindy

ACT 3 - Bob Doing the Long Jump

ACT 4 - Encore Performance by "Red" in the High Jump

Robert harrel · Post by **Robert harrel** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 3:36 am

awesome! pictures and awesome! camera work

aussiemick · Post by **aussiemick** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:04 am

Once again that is awsome

Cheers Mick

RacefacE · Post by **RacefacE** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:25 am

love the second to last picture, its facial expression is priceless

NuMatthu · Post by **NuMatthu** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:53 pm

EXACTLY WHICH CALIBRE WERE YOU USING AGAIN???

I showed these pictures to some workmates and they won't beleive that a .204 could do this

goody523 · Post by **goody523** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:37 am

These all all from my .204 using 39gr Sierra Blitzkings at 3850 fps. I can tell you that my .223 with 60 gr V-Max's at 2850 fps was every bit as destructive, but none of these photos were when that gun was being used. The most destructive of all was my dad's .22-250 with 60 gr V-Max's - don't know the speed, but they tended to just disentegrate the dog instead of launching him if you made a center hit.

glenn asher · Post by **glenn asher** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:05 am

I went around to several other websites and linked them to those pics, they seemed very impressed, both with the .204 AND your photos, as I am. Bodacious stuff there

BTW, I'm most impressed with Tom, he really put his everything into his performance!

goody523 · Post by **goody523** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:31 pm

Tom did perform admirably - we worked on that scene over and over until he had it just right. Unfortunately, as with most of his castmates, his show is a one time only performance.

What other sites did you link this to? There might be a couple of other good ones out there that I didn't know about.

Bergcrane2 · Post by **Bergcrane2** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:22 am

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!

Gone Ballistic · Post by **Gone Ballistic** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:26 pm

Fantastic shots Goody ! What kind of camera/ lens set-up did you have. Were you taking multiple pictures or single shots of each performance? What a great bunch of actors and what a great teacher you are

goody523 · Post by **goody523** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:15 am

If you look at the other recent post I have "Montana Trip - Photos" you will see a description of the camera set-up and technique used (someone asked the same question on that post). The one thing I will tell you about getting hooked on photography is that it is nearly as addictive (and financially painful) as getting hooked on shooting rifles. Proceed with caution!

majcl5 · Post by **majcl5** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:25 pm

YOU ROCK

glenn asher · Post by **glenn asher** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:14 pm

I posted on a couple of Missouri deerhunting sites,(some of them shoot PDs, too) and a couple of Australian sites, they love the .204s for fox, cats and other feral stuff.

http://missouriwhitetails.com/forums/vi ... ?tid=38556

This got the most responses, all very favorable

The Aus sites are kinda hard to navigate and get stuff from, but if you look at the .204 questions in the Equipment section of www. australianhunting.net, you should notice a couple of my posts. I get around...........

Keith in Ga · Post by **Keith in Ga** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:34 pm

Those pictures are great! I've made a futile attempt at getting some action shots, most fell victim to the delete button. You really know how to use that camera. Was wacking them myself just a week ago, and will have to keep looking at your photos until June next year. Great Job!

MinotBob · Post by **MinotBob** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:40 pm

Hi Goodie
I was wondering what combo of camera/lens you used to take these pictures. I have never been able to get close enough to PD to take that good a picture.