Scope for dog hunt with SCAR17?

[AlternateLife504]

I am just wondering if some of you could give me some good ideas for Praire dog hunting scopes for my SCAR17?

Leupold had a mark 8 3.5-25x56mm at shot show 2012. I thought it would be nice, but I don't know what is really out there... Nikon, zeiss, trijicon?

I think something that gets me to about 450+ yards is what I'm looking for. Let me know your ideas please.

Thanks

[Green Beret]

Prairie dog vs .308 is overkill. Not to mention a difficult shot at 450+ yards.

If you can see bullet holes on white paper at that range have at it.

Depends on what you want to spend, but I would go with a Leupold Mk 4.

Hopefully these prairie dogs are damaging your land and not just target practice.

[Bullitt2086]

308 vs prairie dog = dust

[cetane]

308 vs prairie dog = dust

Well actually its .308 vs prairie dog = red mist.

[Gos]

If you can consistently hit a prairie dog at 450m with a SCAR 17s outdoors, color me impressed. That's like 1/2 MOA or less, plus windage and other factors.

[smokey77]

I am just wondering if some of you could give me some good ideas for Praire dog hunting scopes for my SCAR17?

Leupold had a mark 8 3.5-25x56mm at shot show 2012. I thought it would be nice, but I don't know what is really out there... Nikon, zeiss, trijicon?

I think something that gets me to about 450+ yards is what I'm looking for. Let me know your ideas please.

Thanks

I would have to agree with the others and say that this is the wrong platform to take out some prairie dogs. Maybe with a Scar MK 20 SSR it would be possible, but .308 is crazy overkill, there would be nothing left, just legs maybe! You must seriously hate prairie dogs.
Best would be a .223 or 22LR varmint rifle with at least sub MOA to sub 1/2 MOA (like what GOS said). I honestly dont think a SCAR 17s could consistently shoot prairie dogs at 450+ yards even if you had any optic with over 25x, although if you had it in full auto, you would eventually hit one.

[SgtStrykerUSMC43]

.22-250...

[SilentBob]

+1 Sgt
Never went prairie dog hunting but the people I know that do swear by the .22-250, it seems like the right tool for the job, 308 sounds like something Carl the Grounds Keeper from CaddyShack would use....."a license from the United Nations to hunt Varmint Cong"

[Talhoffer]

Guys around here are using the .22-250 to take down coyotes, that or a good .223 might work out better.

Smallest game I've shot with a .308 was a squirrel, didn't work out to good, when the 150gr softpoint hit it it just turned the squirrel into a pink mist, not a scrap of salvageable meat.

[cetane]

when the 150gr softpoint hit it it just turned the squirrel into a pink mist, not a scrap of salvageable meat.