Prairie Dog Practice

I went out yesterday to practice my skills on some prairie dogs.  It didn't turn out to well for them, with little help from me.  I took out my 308 and wasn't able to hit anything.  We were shooting at anywhere between 100 and 400 yards.  Odd thing was that with a .204 my brother-in-law brought I smoked a couple of them with relative ease.  I have decidied that three things need to be changed:

1) I need to do a better job of holding the rifle still, this was a major problem with the wind and lack of usable natural rests.

2) I need more practice.

3) I need to get a higher quality scope.  The one I have is good but I have reached it's limit when conditions get to be less than optimal.  It is a inexpensive scope so I expected to have this happen.

Of course the kicker is that I now also want a .204 for this type of thing.  It's a fun, flat little rifle and has very little recoil.  It's uses are limited however.  The projectile is too small to hunt any big game with, and in many cases the cartridge has too much power for small game.  For varmint control it is darn near perfect.

-Steven Kipp