Now I Am Mad !!!!!!

[stethomps]

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I personally use a 22 for predator control. Ruger 10-22 w/ scope for coyotes and what not, but If I have something in a trap, I will take my pistol, stick the pistol barrel in between the wire and shoot downwards point blank at the head. With a pellet gun, I’d probably try to see if what ever was in there would bite the barrel, then shooit. I’d think this would probably work for a ground squirrel; I am just not sold on using a pellet gun for anything larger.

 

[Damummis]

I would LOVE to take the varmints out with the .22 sitting in the closet BUT at 2-3am in the morning the Ol' Sea Hag next door would have every sheriff in the county, the island constables and the fire dept (for good measure) at our front door. Heck every time we has a cookout last year she called the fire dept. Imagine grilling your fresh chicken over a nice hardwood fire when EVERY (3) fire truck and all the fire dept including volunteers, because they were at a training at the boatyard down the street, shows up in your front yard, not the driveway, the yard. Why???? "We were called because your neighbor says you are burning tires." Huh, smelled like chicken to me.

SO, the next best option..... Bow and arrows.

I am off to go murderize the stuffed animals I picked up at the thrift shop. When you can fill a bag for $3.00 they are cheeper than targets.

 

[Violet22]

ohiofarmgirl and Damummis

your posts cracked me up! I needed a good laugh about now!
Stehomps I can almost guarantee you the ground squirrel would bite the barrel. Thanks for the advice on how to do it, I would feel much better shooting it.
Again, that's about all I'd be using it for, I think I could get away with a "real" gun on a coyote and a mountain lion here, but if I got caught using anything bigger than a pellet gun on anything else, I might be in trouble with the law. This is the first time I have ever lived in the city limits and had to worry about what I shot and when. Thank heavens I don't have an Ol' Sea Hag living next door to me!

 

[Davaroo]

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No, not with an airgun. But, you risk not cleanly and reliably dispatching a raccoon with an airgun at any range. And what is humane about that?

There just isn't an excess of power with airguns - even if he stood there smiling as you pulled the trigger. This is the the reason why I hesitate to recommend them for pred control. Even the good old .22LR is minimum, IMHO.

The answer to this can be different for everybody, but you want to dispatch him cleanly using enough power to do the job. These animals can be larger and harder to kill than one first imagines. Airguns are a bad compromise.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Heck every time we has a cookout last year she called the fire dept.

hee hee hee thats the funniest thing EVER. golly. if i were you i'd do what my buddy did to terrorize his neighbors.... he butchered his meat chickens right there for all the world to see and used his kid's swingset to hang 'em off while he plucked.

hee hee hee

give them stuffed bunnies the business, Damummis! take no prisoners! this is war!

hee hee hee

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[Damummis]

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hee hee hee thats the funniest thing EVER. golly. if i were you i'd do what my buddy did to terrorize his neighbors.... he butchered his meat chickens right there for all the world to see and used his kid's swingset to hang 'em off while he plucked.

hee hee hee

give them stuffed bunnies the business, Damummis! take no prisoners! this is war!

hee hee hee



I so want to do that but DH says I have to be civil. DARN!! Actually I wanted to do the meatbirds in the front yard garden on Halloween with the scalding tank cooking in the middle. You know do it up real good, costumes and everything. Boy would that wig her out.

 

[mikesbigroo]

i would be thinking more in the way of a 12 ga. shotgun,

 

[Violet22]

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hee hee hee thats the funniest thing EVER. golly. if i were you i'd do what my buddy did to terrorize his neighbors.... he butchered his meat chickens right there for all the world to see and used his kid's swingset to hang 'em off while he plucked.

hee hee hee

give them stuffed bunnies the business, Damummis! take no prisoners! this is war!

hee hee hee



I so want to do that but DH says I have to be civil. DARN!! Actually I wanted to do the meatbirds in the front yard garden on Halloween with the scalding tank cooking in the middle. You know do it up real good, costumes and everything. Boy would that wig her out.

You two are making my day! That is a darn shame DH believes in civility

I would have a hard time holding back, I'd have to pull some pranks! I think your idea is a great one, and Halloween.....what better excuse???

 

[Violet22]

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Well, if I ever get a raccoon, I'll have to ask someone to come help me, maybe they will never be a problem and I won't have to worry about it. I know my neighbor 2 doors down has been trapping quite a few, so maybe he will get them all. Unfortunately, he relocates them from what I hear........of course, he may have just told my next door neighbor that.........he may be killing them. People don't like to admit to dispatching critters around here, afraid of backfire from people that don't know better.

 

[sjranch]

I would shoot them the fox that is and not think twice about it.. Good hunting