Mink

[aart]

I doubt post #19's picture had much to do with a zoom lens ...

How can you possibly know that?
I'm betting it had everything to do with a zoom lens.
Sure looks close tho, eh?

 

[wildwestcoast]

I promise you...I took that picture with a Samsung phone and zoomed in. I was about 20 feet away. I had some closer contact with it earlier involving a rake haha but I never was good at hitting a moving target. I had given up and decided to get some pics to show the kids. The little thing was pretty persistent and kept hanging around.

 

[123RedBeard]

How can you possibly know that?
I'm betting it had everything to do with a zoom lens.
Sure looks close tho, eh?

The angle ... look at where the ground is ... and the wheelbarrow?

I promise you...I took that picture with a Samsung phone and zoomed in. I was about 20 feet away. I had some closer contact with it earlier involving a rake haha but I never was good at hitting a moving target. I had given up and decided to get some pics to show the kids. The little thing was pretty persistent and kept hanging around.

Must have been up on a 20' ladder ...

 

[wildwestcoast]

Believe what you want lol I've no reason to tell tall tales

 

[itsasmallfarm]

I've got a good air rifle too (Beeman R77 if it matters), but out of all the weapons at my disposal, that would be the last one I'd pick up to use on a mink, weasel, skunk, possum or other. At least one that was not in a trap and running around on the loose.

Even a dinky little Mossberg .410 pump shotgun you can buy at Walmart.....which holds 4 or 5 shells and burps out a lethal dose of lead at close quarters. About 5 to 20X the single pellet an air rifle would dispense and at a much higher velocity.

If you can get close enough to that mink to take those kind of photos he is close enough. A dead center body shot with even a .410 will leave him graveyard dead.

lol i wish walmart sold guns here in canada. but am more of a conibear man my self when dealing with mink.

 

[Howard E]

Even if you can't get a weapon at Walmart, if you have the legal ability to own a gun, even with just a diminutive single shot .410, about anybody could whack a mink at 20 feet. One shot, one kill.......but not if you live in town.......

Agreed.....mink box for those.