Hey John. if you are serious about a prairie dog shoot mid to late June would be ideal.I have a couple possibilities right around my home town here there tend to be rather small isolated towns, about an hour and a half northwest of here we have a huge national grassland with bigger towns, you can camp up there, I have a camper. my biggest thing is in order to get time off after school is out for the summer, the sooner I have dates the better. at my job I have Tuesday, Wednesday off so any other days I need to take vacation time.