Chipmunks

[the lone gunman]

I live in Pa. and one of my favorite Things is to do some Chipmunk hunting. The weather is finally warm and the Monks are out.I like to grab my old 22 lever and go out and walk the dirt roads watch on top of old stumps, Mostly close range shots ,20 yards or less, this year I am going to try my marlin 1894 44 mag on them. anyone else shoot chippys?

 

[308win]

Occasionally with a pellet rifle. My wife used to think they were cute until she found several of her $10+ apiece bulbs laying on the ground with a single bite taken out of them. She loaded me into the car and we went to the local hardware for gopher bombs. Not too sporting but effective.

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

I use my beeman pellet rifle....the stone walls around the yard are riddled with them.

 

[Subby]

You are aware that the Pa. Game Commission sort of frowns upon that, right?

Sub

 

[pdowg881]

I shoot chipmunks every day. After winter passes I usually just use a pellet rifle in the backyard, sometimes go out back into the woods with the .22.
Funny thing is I've only seen 2 squirrels here in my entire life, and we are overrun with chipmunks, so I get plenty of practice.

 

[skeeter1]

When I was younger my parent's house had a stone wall along the back yard, and the chippies would borrow behind it and it would collapse. I have no idea how many I picked off with a .22 Crosman pellet rifle, but let's just say lots. That's plenty to take care of a chipmunk. CCI Long CBs out of a rifle worked rather nicely as well.

 

[Art Eatman]

Down here in the desert, we have chipmunk-sized critters; "antelope squirrels". (Don't ask me why they got named that.) There aren't all that many, though, so they're not a pest. They thus remain in the "cute" category.

Rock squirrels, however, kill baby quail and gnaw on vegetable-based plastic. So...

, Art

 

[hagar]

I still think chipmunk's are cute, same for squirrels, raccoons and armadillos. But I never had any of them bother me either, so I may change my mind. But point me in the direction of a coyote, and I start foaming at the mouth, it has to die. Or at least an attempt must be made for it to die!

I don't shoot grey foxes either, they are cute little nasty monsters in their own right. They are brash, will actually attack you and growl at you, nip at your boots or pants, and I had a lot of fun at the expense of my friends that called them in over the years and been attacked by them.

 

[carnaby]

I blasted a poor chipmunk once. I was out in the woods and all I had was my little 3" Kimber. The chip was about 30 feet away so I figured I had no chance. Blew his face off. Poor little guy, I don't shoot at them any more.

 

[akolleth]

My father in law is a very generous man with Chipmunks. He catches them in live taps, then gives them free swimming lessons while still in the trap. The ungrateful bastards never even thank him.

 

[Stinger]

My father in law is a very generous man with Chipmunks. He catches them in live taps, then gives them free swimming lessons while still in the trap. The ungrateful bastards never even thank him.

What do you even say to that?

 

[JohnKSa]

What do you even say to that?

For what it's worth, my college room-mate drowned. (They fished him out and jump-started him, but not until he was unconscious.) He said it was a very peaceful experience after taking the first breath and that if he ever decided to commit suicide that's how he would do it.

 

[sm]

Like Art...

Chipmunks are in the "cute" category where I live as well.
Just not that many around where I am.

Now other critters that fall into messing with habitat for quail and such...

 

[DWARREN123]

I am a Vermin hunter, pop them and other critters when needed.

 

[langenc]

Many years ago my teenage nephew cme to visit for a week. We are situated kinda in the woods. He shot 37 chippies right on the property < 1/2 acre. The next week you could hardly tell he had been here by the number of chippies around.

Another time I came home and a garage window was shot out. I asked my wife about its and "I got the chippie" but it went thru and got the window. I asked but what if youd missed then realized it didnt make much difference. Got to remind her about 'the target AND what is beyond'.

 

[Kingcreek]

Some of us even have dedicated gopher guns.

 

[bensdad]

That is neither a chipmunk, nor a gopher. that is a thirteen-lined ground squirrel. I kill those and squirrels, but not chipmunks. When I was a very little boy we spent summers in Itasca State Park (MN) and there were a couple of chipmunks that I could hand-feed right outside our cabin.

I shot one last summer, but it was a tragic case of mistaken identity. Little fart stood up on his hind legs, just like a 13-lined does. The sun was behind him. It was a bad shoot.

 

[Art Eatman]

Thread drift: On a road in Colorado in the area near the headwaters of the Colorado River is a pullout parking area as a scenic overlook. Quite popular with tourists.

From years of being fed, there are a lot of chipmunks that come up and beg for yummies.

A family from way back in rural somewhere, southern U.S., had stopped. Maw, Paw, Grampaw, kids. A definite mob. One of the kids goes up to Grampaw and asks about the chipmunks, "Grampaw, what's them?"

Grampaw gets a studious look on his face, observes for a bit, and authoritatively asserts, "'Em's bivvers."

So, ever since for my wife and me, 'em's been bivvers.

Art

 

[308win]

What do you suppose he would call a bivver - a hippopotamus?

 

[357wheelgunner]

In Northern Wisconsin, near upper Michigan, we used to spend all summer killing them. We counted 170 or so one summer. Killed 'em with an RWS spring piston airgun, from point blank to 40 or so yards. Everytime I see one now I subconciously reach for my air rifle.....

Pellet guns can be extremely accurate!

 

[Geno]

I feel little guilt when they begin to destroy my house. Nasty critters can get in through a pin-hole (so it seems). Did I mention that they sit and watch for the garden to be planted, then they proceed to unplant it. I just pass my daughter her rifle and let her fix things. You can see how she got her nick name...the short of it, one pellet, one kill. Annie Oakley is her heroine. Her nickname: "LilSureShot".

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[koja48]

I shoot & have shot & will continue to shoot my share of vermin-type
critters . . . I'll keep "bivvers" in the "cute" category . . . , but to each his/her own, where legal.

 

[skeeter1]

Doc2005--

Cute little girl, and that's my first hunting experience as well -- taking out a chippie that was raiding our garden. That was 50 years ago. My dad had to help me hold up the .22 (I was only 4), and once I shot the chipmunk, dad picked it up by the tail and said "See, guns can kill." I've done plenty of hunting over the years, but I still respect that there's a certain amount of responsibility when you have a firearm in your hands.

 

[Art Eatman]

Just occurred to me. I got moles. Or maybe they're gophers. I dunno. In places around the pasture, though, lots of them.

Anybody wants a hunting vacation, lemme know.

Art

 

[koja48]

Anybody wants a hunting vacation, lemme know

Dang, too far away, Art. Reckon I'll have to settle for thinning pigeons at a friend's barn tomorrow morning instead (fortunately, air rifles need exercise,
too . . . ).