Devil's Vortex
“J.B. stated as he squinted through Ryan’s big binocs and fiddled with the focus, “these are not exactly the farm pests I pictured in my mind when we hired on with those sod-busters.”
“They’re not what I expected either,” Ryan said, grunting. He lay next to J.B. in the shade of a stand of smallish cottonwood trees, clearly planted as a windbreak a generation before along an irrigation ditch that ran along the west side of a broad-bean field. The ditch ran with water from a tributary of the B...elle Fourche in the watershed northeast of the Black Hills, maybe thirty miles north of the old Ellsworth Air Force Base crater farm and hot spot. Ryan watched their targets through the Leupold scope of his Steyr Scout longblaster. “I was thinking more—I dunno. Prairie dogs? Mutie prairie dogs? That size anyway.”
“You think they’re worse than armored coyotes?” Ricky asked from directly behind them.
Their two wags were parked on the far side of the windbreak, just beyond the morning shadow they cast on an expanse of prairie.MoreLess
“They’re not what I expected either,” Ryan said, grunting. He lay next to J.B. in the shade of a stand of smallish cottonwood trees, clearly planted as a windbreak a generation before along an irrigation ditch that ran along the west side of a broad-bean field. The ditch ran with water from a tributary of the B...elle Fourche in the watershed northeast of the Black Hills, maybe thirty miles north of the old Ellsworth Air Force Base crater farm and hot spot. Ryan watched their targets through the Leupold scope of his Steyr Scout longblaster. “I was thinking more—I dunno. Prairie dogs? Mutie prairie dogs? That size anyway.”
“You think they’re worse than armored coyotes?” Ricky asked from directly behind them.
Their two wags were parked on the far side of the windbreak, just beyond the morning shadow they cast on an expanse of prairie.MoreLess
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