Bigjake
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ruger mk11 with colibri ammo, can't beat it for quite, close range!
Chimpmunk Problem.
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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.
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.
Smokey Joe
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Chipmunk problem? What chipmunk problem?
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.
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
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Falcon.
Tamara
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Smokey Joe,
Heh.
"That's not a mouse hole, that's an automated self-propelled cat toy dispenser."
Heh.
"That's not a mouse hole, that's an automated self-propelled cat toy dispenser."
AUTIGER04
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But I hate "cats" too. Ill try mouse traps or the 5 gallon bucket trick. There are to many houses around to shoot. Thanks for the replies.
Ill try mouse traps or the 5 gallon bucket trick. There are to many houses around to shoot. Thanks for the replies.Bigjake
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I hear our alaskan friends recomend .308 as an effictive 'munk round, with propper shot placement 
AUTIGER04
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CatsDieNow
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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.
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Golgo13Ñ
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.
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.
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Art Eatman
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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
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."
, ArtC.R.Sam
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Sam
Chairman Meow
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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.
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.
standingbear
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had the same problem
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.
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
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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
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
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BeLikeTrey
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That's a bit cruel isn't it?
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
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
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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.
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
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Explosives should be fairly painless.
grampster
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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.
blechajo
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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.
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.
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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.
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