You will not be shooting when critter is on the run. What I do is watch for where it peeps out of a whole and have weapon trained on that spot. If shooting in the open, do so when it is basically standing in place which they do a lot. Wear glasses.
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Collateral damage. Sometimes it's worth it.Ok... I gotta ask... for those suggesting shooting it... how do you manage to shoot such a small critter in a building without wrecking stuff, and without risking injury due to ricochet?
I have nothing against guns... I have many... I guess I might attempt it with a pellet gun as some suggested... but I don’t own one of those.... 410s and 22s seem risky unless you catch it out in the open... which seems unlikely for a weasel.
And I’m not asking to be contrary... I’m just puzzled... maybe because my brother and I once shot holes in the barn roof when we were shooting a screech owl that was killing our young birds when we were kids... but the idea of shooting a weasel in a coop seems tricky.
My thoughts exactly, so long as you know what's behind where you are shooting I think it's worth it.I'm state female pistol champion. As for others, collateral damage from small caliber shells or shot is easily repairable- and worth it if you get the stupid varmint that's been driving you mad!
.... As for others, collateral damage from small caliber shells or shot is easily repairable- ....
But I was more concerned with whether folks were considering the fact that there is a strong chance of the bullet or shot pellets passing through shed/coop walls, or ricocheting, or fragmenting and ricocheting, etc.
A mouse in your mouth?!?!?....ewwwww.a mouse in distress squeaker in my mouth.
Just had one in the chicken coop today they are very brave ! I noticed it peak it’s head under the barn door and look at me when I went in it sat right I front of me staring at me while I stared at it I got My old man and he shot it with a pellet gun a few times and that was that luckily we noticed it before it got any chickens I’ve noticed mice and the whole mouse trap going missing he must have been in the barn for awhile my advice would be to wait in the bar quietly till he comes it and shoot it with a pellet gunThis little *bleep*er
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has killed 14 of my birds so far. Lost 12 in June. They had been free ranging in a large fenced area and it attacked during the day and killed all but two who flew over the fence and escaped.
It came back a week later into a secure run (not secure enough I guess) and killed another.
We spent the summer building a new Fort Knox run with hardware cloth everywhere. I boarded up their coop as best as I could - and it came and killed another one in October. More boarding up/securing, set two traps (one have a hart, one I made out of wood), nada.
In July we started a new flock that has just started laying. On Saturday it got in again and killed a pullet. As I was investigating how it got in it came right in the front door of the shed that is attached to the coop & tried to get past me to do more murdering. Broad daylight, not afraid of me at all! I took this picture of it in my shed while I was trying to trap it.
I brought the birds all into the garage (in pens/cages) so I could try to trap it. Nada.
We ended up adding rat poison to the body of the victim and putting it in plain sight in the shed. That night it ate more of the victim, but obviously didn’t die from poison because it came in the garage today and tried to get into one of the pens. I heard the panic squawking and got there in time to prevent any more loss. It escaped the way it got in, which is surely some small crack I can’t see.
So now my 11 surviving chickens are all in my kitchen and it’s -10 degrees F outside with 2 feet of new snow and I am at my wit’s end.
What else can I possibly do? Nothing I do can keep it out. I need to kill it. What has worked for you?
If I wouldn’t die of hypothermia I’m ready to sit out there all night with a shotgun.