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Howdy folks. No questions nor useful information here, just an unfortunate anecdote.

Some background information: I live next to a corn field and as it gets colder, the mice that live in that now empty field get pretty desperate for a warm bed. Quite a few of them chose my house this year, including my garage apparently.

The other night, I saw what at a glance I suspected to be mouse turds on my bench. Then, I realized it was just a few pellets of 3031 that must have gotten spilled - finally it became clear that the reality was somewhere in between, as it was in fact a mixture of the two. Then, I uncovered the disturbing sight of half-eaten gunpowder...

Moral of the story, if you happen to be in my house and see a mouse, I wouldn't recommend lighting a match near his rear. And more seriously, keep your bench clean.
 

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I’ll look but I don’t think I have mice dies anymore. I know I’m out of mice primers.
Here in the People’s Republic of Hochul, you’d be arrested for feeding the wildlife.
Those little rodents are a pain to keep in check.
 
Where we are it's a similar story but cow fields not corn. The mice are out looking for safety from the owls and cats, not food. They eat plenty good, trust me! I was outside the other night checking on the barn cats - they hadn't come up for kibble - and heard what sounded like a broom being waved over my head. Looked up and saw a barn owl with about a three foot wingspan swooping up to the tall pine. It perched and looked at me like maybe it could take me after all. No wonder the cats were hiding! They were probably gathering mice to bribe the owl with. :eek:
 
lordpaxman said:
Here in the People’s Republic of Hochul, you’d be arrested for feeding the wildlife.
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What? I thought feeding the winged rats (pigeons) was like a mandated hobby or something up there. Every Yankee (no offense) that moves down here insists on feeding the squirrels (rats with fuzzy tails) and pigeons (rats with wings). Shoot, you cant' get away from them tossing seeds and stuff to every kind of rat alive at the parks around retirement homes. And they don't even eat the little pests so I know they're not fattening them up.:rofl::eek:
 
mdi said:
My Gamo, break barrel 22 with scope does an excellent job on the occasional vermine...
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I have one of those .177 Peacemaker-knock off BB guns that I tried for a while. I emptied a whole cylinder on one of those home invaders before giving up and going to the good ol' fashioned boot.

AK Hunter said:
I can hear it now when the mouse trap used to go snap, now it goes BOOM!
At least there is no need for disposing of the dead mouse. LOL
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Reminds me of this!

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AK Hunter said:
I have used a smooth bore .22 & these against those intruders many times.

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I know a guy that would shoot mice in his house with these, and said it never caused any issues (except for with his wife) so I considered it. Luckily I figured out where they were all congregating and loaded up their hidey hole with D-Con and haven't seen any evidence of the devils in a long while, let alone one of them scurrying about. Which reminds me to give another warning about being in my house - plug your nose. You get that many of them dying at one time, I can say the smell is not pleasant.
 
I once had a mouse get into my sawmill office. Needless to say the secretary threatened to abandon ship. I found the little bugger between the filing cabinet and the wall where it was too narrow for my broom. I had to act fast so I slammed 2 22 mag shot cartridges in my High Standard derringer and pulled the trigger!
I was highly successful in eradicating the vermin. But everyone had to evacuate the office until the 20 plus years of dust that accumulated beside the cabinet finally settled!:what:
 
Catpop said:
I once had a mouse get into my sawmill office. Needless to say the secretary threatened to abandon ship. I found the little bugger between the filing cabinet and the wall where it was too narrow for my broom. I had to act fast so I slammed 2 22 mag shot cartridges in my High Standard derringer and pulled the trigger!
I was highly successful in eradicating the vermin. But everyone had to evacuate the office until the 20 plus years of dust that accumulated beside the cabinet finally settled!:what:
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+1 for working at a business that allows the discharge of firearms in it's use as a tool.
 
CoalCrackerAl said:
I keep D-con out all the time.
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Rest assured, I will be from now on! I have to be careful as I have a dog in the house, but thankfully they decided to make their nest in my basement ceiling where he cannot get to but I easily can.

I tried all that other crap on the market, the poison pellets that supposedly only kill rodents without any decaying odor, snap traps, even some of those ones where they walk in and fall onto a sticky trap. Caught a grand total of three. Waste of time and money, but that D-Con got it done right away.
 
Try the plaster of paris and flour bait trick. I was amazed at the science and results. See YouTube to be educated. No need for expensive shot cartridges and it's cheap too.
See RFwobbly's post on the second page of this thread for link to You tube.
 
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