[AUTIGER04]

I have serious problem with Chimpmunks in my yard. I have the solution (22lr)but, I live around many houses and cant shoot them. Anyone have a remedy for these pesky critters? I mean they even get up in my car and chew on the wiring. I have found what looks to be dog food in the area where my wiring has been chewed. :mad: Any suggestions?:o

My first post and I post about Chimpmunks.:o

[NRA4LIFE]

Rat traps are very effective. Bait them with any kind of fruit or nut. However, try to put them somewhere where the birds can't get to them. Additionally, tie them down to something.

[AUTIGER04]

Cool Thanks for the info.:) I thought about that. But dint know if it would work or not. :)

[Art Eatman]

The insulation of many cars' wiring harnesses is of vegetable-based plastic. Mousies just luvvit! (FoMoCo at one time got their harnesses from Brazil; the plastic was made from soybeans. Yum! Ungood for farmer to park pickup truck in barn!)

I've had success with various baits in mouse and rat traps. Raisins, peanut butter...Even small meat scraps.

Another very good passive trap is one of these plastic five-gallon buckets such as used for hydraulic oil or paint. Put some bait in the bottom. Seeds, rasins...Set the bucket near some mouse-climbable surface/wall. They'll jump in. One-way trip.

:), Art

[Keith]

A .22 Short fired from a rifle with a 1 liter plastic pop bottle taped to the muzzle makes almost no sound whatsover.

Of course, that would be ILLEGAL and no good American would assemble such a device without having the proper tax stamps! And besides, the bottle will interfere with the sights and you'd have to use a scope with a medium or high mount. Worse, you'd have to have defined "kill zones" where the dirt is soft and no ricochet is possible.

However, since that would be a violation of an obscure provision of the tax code, it's illegal, and possibly even immoral...

Keith

[Frohickey]

Rat traps are very effective. Bait them with any kind of fruit or nut. However, try to put them somewhere where the birds can't get to them. Additionally, tie them down to something.

How do you catch the chipmunks so that you can tie them down to something? :D

Couldn't you use a pellet rifle, or BB gun?

[AUTIGER04]

LOL!! @ Frohickey.:D

[TallPine]

Cat

[stubby]

a good pellet gun:eek:

[Joe Demko]

Weasel.

[kudu]

Try to find some .22 CB shorts or longs. Velocity is so low that you can see them in flight and the noise level is about the same as a loud hand clap. About the equivalent of a good high velocity pellet rifle. I have shot them into pop cans full of water and not had them go through the other side of the can. They just punch a hole and rattle in the can.

[Quartus]

Golgo-13, that was uncalled for ! Pellet guns may not be real guns, but that doesn't justify calling stubby a weasel! Shame on you! :fire:







What?



Oh. Sorry.



:D

[Double Naught Spy]

I have my daughter's Chipmunk rifle from which is fired Aguila .22 Sans poudre (no powder) ammo. The click of the bolt is louder than the muzzle report. The round isn't bad for about 20 yards. After that, drop becomes awfully significant. At 50 yards, it will penetrate 5 layers of cardboard IDPA targets with no problem, but have a drop of close to 20" or so from point of aim.

Of course, it still counts as real ammo and that may not be legal to dishcarge where you are. If not, a good pellet gun and a $8 scope will be more than sufficient.

[Preacherman]

Actually, I'm fascinated to hear of a "chimpmunk" problem... what sort of strange and contortionist mating (not to mention cross-species DNA compatibility) produced these strange beasts?

:evil: :neener: :p

[C.R.Sam]

Beats havin a hippagator problem.

I have caught quite a few mice with a trash can. Bait on stick that tips into the can when critter gets out to that end.

Sam

[CZ 75 BD]

really thump the munk. Red box for rifle, yellow box for pistol.:D

I kill them in the back yard every year. The little rodents are prolific! In Cali they call them mini-bears.

A live trap will work also.

[CatsDieNow]

My dad got into chipmunk extermination after he got a lot of grief from my mom. They ate all of the little seedlings she spent the winter growing under the lights. It was really funny watching her trying to load my brother's BB gun - she's not exactly mechanically inclined.

Anyway...rat traps and peanut butter. Small animals love peanut butter.

I've also seen him put a sock over the end of the downspout/drain pipe, turn on the hose, wash them off the roof, and then thump them on some concrete.

Dad's got over 100 tails mounted on a board in the garage. :D

[Art Eatman]

Well, I reckon them chimpmunks is some weird DNA mixes, alright, and hippogators are a problem for sure. At least we ain't tryin' to deal with wolvarillas. Them's evil.

I remember one time...Nah, too much thread drift.

:D, Art

[Double Naught Spy]

Yes but wolverillas are protected, endangered I believe, due to loss of habitat. And they are mean. There is no way to live trap one of them and not get hurt.

With that said, one of the primary staples of the wolverillas is chimpmunks.

[C.R.Sam]

Emu....might eat em.
If not, would darn sho stomp em.
And everything else around.

Duck no good.
Donald never did get Chip or Dale.

Sam

[Joe Demko]

All of which is perfectly true, but....


pop goes the weasel.

There's no arguing with that.

[4v50 Gary]

Autigero4 - suggest you ask CatsDieNow's father to drop in for a week. With a hundred tails in the garage, I'm sure he can handle your handful. If CatsDieNow's father can't help, then resort to trapping & pellet guns.

BTW, when I first saw this thread, I thought it was something to do with the Chipmunk rifle. :D

Finally, hippagators are easy compared to the neighbor's teenager. Even the parent can't control that (and why should they? The teenager is much smarter than the rest of us anyway).

[AUTIGER04]

:D My bad. Bad spelling.

[gun-fucious]

my granddad used to make a figure 4 trap with a deadfall brick for "grinnies"

[BeLikeTrey]

Well,
How much do you hate 'em? They sell "humane traps". Rodents DO love peanut butter. If you hate 'em, the colibri's are very quiet and effective. Especially in a bolt action. There are also really powerful blow guns for cheap at most flea markets or martial arts magazines. They penetrate REAL well into solid wood doors and are UBER QUIET! Now that might be a bit much for you, but target practice with those is fun. But again this is a problem for you and not about fun. Sorry, re-living my childhood :) Seriously, a bb gun or colibri's lose velocity fast and are the most neighborhood safe if you are gonna go that route. BB gun with pellets are my favorite. Or like my home, we took in a wild cat when she was young. All manner of animals end up eviserated in my garage. There are many more options but I will leave it with those few for you. Happy hunting.

[Bigjake]

ruger mk11 with colibri ammo, can't beat it for quite, close range!

[admiral]

this fella had been living under my house for a few months and waking me up at 5 am when returning home in the morning. put the smack-down on him last weekend with a 22 short to the mellon at about 20 yards. they are very quiet out of a long barrel. he was eating some leftover chicken i had set out for his dinner.
http://www.bright.net/~admiral/opposum2.JPG

[Smokey Joe]

Go the your local humane society or equivalent. Tell the nice lady at the desk you need a cat for a companion. (Fer gawsh sakes don't tell her you want it to kill something; she'll have conniptions, won't let you have it, and will blacklist you.)

Pick a nice looking, biggish tomcat, mebbe half-grown. Get it fixed on the way home. Unfixed toms tend to "mark" their territory, in a way that your wife won't approve of in the house.

Toms are much more friendly toward humans. Cat people call the females "queens" for a good reason.

Treat it nice; feed it regular but not too much; a fat cat isn't as agile.

Bingo, you got an automatic chipmunkÑand any other small mammalÑkiller that's quiet, effective, loves its work, is on the alert 24/7, is legal in all 50 states, and as a bonus will sit in your lap while you read the paper, and purr and expect to be patted.

[Joe Demko]

Falcon.

[Tamara]

Heh.

"That's not a mouse hole, that's an automated self-propelled cat toy dispenser." :D

[zahc]

Cat

Birdshot

[AUTIGER04]

But I hate "cats" too. :D Ill try mouse traps or the 5 gallon bucket trick. There are to many houses around to shoot.:mad: Thanks for the replies.

[Bigjake]

I hear our alaskan friends recomend .308 as an effictive 'munk round, with propper shot placement :neener:

[AUTIGER04]

:D

[CatsDieNow]

Autigero4 - suggest you ask CatsDieNow's father to drop in for a week. With a hundred tails in the garage, I'm sure he can handle your handful.

Well, see that's the problem, he only had a handful to start out with too. New crops are constantly moving in - it is an endless battle. He lives in the city, these aren't even rural chipmunks.

The first two tails got tied on to my car mirror the same day I bought my Camaro. That was early 1998 and he's still trapping. It has slowed down somewhat, though.

[Smokey Joe]

You don't need a silencer to shoot a mime. They're already silenced. To kill a mime, you just mime shooting them and they fall over dead.

[Litlman]

I will have to go with the cat. I got mine 10 years ago. A true mouser and like my first child.

[C.R.Sam]

This'll make you weep.
http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~1637202,00.html

Sam

[Art Eatman]

Not weep, Sam; throw up.

Wuz it me, I'd think in terms of a terrarium and a hamster wheel, for however long the rat lasted...

"Oh, that's my striped hamster."

:), Art

[C.R.Sam]

:D :D :D
Sam

[Chairman Meow]

Ever played with model rockets?

They make these electronic ignition systems for model rocket engines, and the little electronic igniters (50 cents each from a hobby store) work remarkably well as a remote detonator for an m80 or an m90.

Here's what you do:

1. Pull the fuses out of a bunch of m80's, insert the electronic igniters in the fuse holes and attach about 20 feet of speaker wire to each one.
2. Cover m80's in peanut butter and distribute in your yard, running wires back to your back porch.
3. Fill cooler with beer and get lawn chairs.
4. When critter picks up the yummy treat, connect 9 volt battery to speaker wire.
5. Take pictures.

:evil:

[standingbear]

there is a little electronic thingamadodad that i saw in a hardware store that plugs into an extension cord.i got one and thought it broken until i noticed the squirrels avoiding that end of the house.neat gadget but went in the trash..im not sure if the friut flavored gum works on them as well as it does ghogs.they knaw on it and swallow the gum,they cant digest the gum so become fatally constapated.tried putting up a plastic owl thinking it would scare them off being owls eat rodents..crows also hate owls much to our dismay and decided to make our backyard a battlezone so the owl had to go.ended up poisoning them.

[grampster]

Chipmunk VS flower garden Chip 1 garden 0

Wife VS Chipmunk Wife 1 munk 0

Tools: One live trap, peanut butter, length of rope, lake.

Catch critter, pick up trap to which rope is affixed. Walk out onto dock in lake.
Submerge live trap while holding rope. Drink beer or smoke cigarette. Lift trap from lake, throw chipmunk into garbage can. Re bait trap, repeat.

grampster

[BeLikeTrey]

Please tell me you don't make something suffer.... Drowning is one of the worst things I could think of. It takes a long time to drown. I hunt, but I can't bear the thought of suffering. I won't even take my shot, hunting, unless I am assured of a clean kill. No, I don't belong to PETA. But I think as humans ( with the great advantage of intelligence and the technical advantage) we could at least have the kindness to make it quick and relatively painless. Hopefully you were joking :scrutiny:

[BeLikeTrey]

Yes I know.....The cat is cruel too, but mine simply won't pay attention to reprimands. It's mere prescence keeps most of the rodentia away, however. The suicidal ones are the ones who get that cat's paws.

[Chairman Meow]

Explosives should be fairly painless.

[grampster]

Any critter who screws around in my wife's flower beds do so at the peril of their lives, 4 legs, 2 legs, fur or fowl, makes no difference. Cruelty is part of her equation.

:neener: :evil: :what: :D

[blechajo]

I had an invasion of these critters beginning early last summer (02). By mid summer I had more than 30 on an 80' x 35' lot. They fought valiantly but lost, finally. I lost the contents of my storage shed, my nine tomato plants and my patience. I gained a lot of information about them, which I pass on to you.

They are ground squirrels. They are quick learners. They are prolific tunnelers. Mine could dig an entire new complex in 72 hours with portions of it 5-6 feet deep and over 15 feet long. Since my house is bound of three sides by other homes, not over 35-40 feet from mine, shooting them with other than a pump pellet gun on a fairly middle power was out of the question and certainly I couldn't get them as fast as they bred. So, I purchased some mouse/rat poison pellets, deposited them by their tunnel doors and slowed them down for a while. Actually pretty good luck because they eat the stuff, crawl down in their tunnels and croak. So the survivors start new digs. While they are shallow in the beginning and I can easily see them, I blast them when no neighbors are looking. I leave the dead guys stuffed back into the holes. After three days I find no more for months. However, it is a continuing battle, just smaller each time. They can't be trapped legally in Albuquerque by anyone except the animal control people who can't and won't do it because there are so many. I had no trouble with my cats and dogs getting the pellet poison or the dead bodies as they are required to be on leashes outside the house and I really crammed the dead guys far down in their holes (using plastic gloves because of our high incidence rate of plague and hunta virus here in the land of enchantment). This could go on for a long time so I'll quit here. e-mail if I can help with more information.

[Mike990]

Rat trap or any pump up pellet gun. .22 of any type is overkill for a chipmunk. Head or chest, they go down with a bb gun too.

[sm]

I just used what I'd brung last time I opened a shed down on the farm. Little fellers chewing on stuff they shouldn't have. All I had was my CCW, 230 gr JHP...used what I'd brung. Bit misty, but quit chewing they did. :)

[243_shooter]

Back when I was about 5 or 6 my grandparents had a terrible infestation of assorted tree rats rasing heck with their birdfeeders and getting into the attic.

They had a very effective solution, an eager young hunter with a semi-quality pellet rifle. by the end of the summer we had completely lost count of how many had met their demise to the trusty pellet gun.

Gramp always said if ya shot one, ten would swing by for the funeral. Pretty sure he was right on the mark about that one. Of course it could have been the 8 or 10 stocked bird feeders they had that was drawing them in, don't know.. Do know I had boat loads of fun with it ;)

Leo