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Over did it this weekend relocating a large tree. So this morning ive been on my back porch sniping mice that I baited up by my bird feeders.
Life is good.
Hoot 4 - Mice 0 .......I know a hand full of rat poison would work better...but not as much fun.
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Hoot, Details man! Details! What were you shooting them with? With holding vital shooting info is akin to cruel and unusual punishmnet! Is that against the constitution or something?
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Yea, we need intel. What kind of 22?
It�s a magazine not a clip......
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Just my little lever action with subsonics. I baited them with some bran muffin my wife made. You'd think that alone would kill them. Using a chair as a rest. What a fun day...But I think I'm running out of rats.
Also ran a test. Shot an armadillo in the neck with a subsonic....flopped around like a chicken. It took 6 minutes for the buzzards to find it.
was a fun day....Back at work today...Where they frown on me being armed.
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Thank you. The muffin thing is funny.
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yea, Hoot can be brave saying that about his wife's cooking because she's not reading this post! *teasin'*
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I baited them with some bran muffin my wife made. You'd think that alone would kill them.
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Those can be used as WEAPONS OF MASS MOUSE DESTRUCTION...?
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Im sure you guys will have the good taste not to mention that to Mrs. Hoot....
She said It was some mishap with the baking powder...
Im not going to press the issue.
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An old gunsmith used to live across the street from me. He fitted a 40inch (yeah you read it right) barrel to an old bolt action .410 shotgun. He shot starlings and rabbits right in the middle of town with no one the wiser (he said). Seems the long barrel silenced the thing down to just a pop.
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An old gunsmith used to live across the street from me. He fitted a 40inch (yeah you read it right) barrel to an old bolt action .410 shotgun. He shot starlings and rabbits right in the middle of town with no one the wiser (he said). Seems the long barrel silenced the thing down to just a pop. Wish I hadn't just read that...... Now I gotta find a 40 inch .410 barrel... you know, to verify the GS's story! (pigeon control)
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Cou..,
Yeah, it seems the guy invented the 'metro barrel' somewhere about 1955. Which may be an idea for you. Don't know if they make a .410 'metro' but 12s are out there.
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I love my house and yard. In the house I can shoot Long Zs or cb longs at 13 yards. . . but not at mice. In the yard, 16 yards easy. Cats and snakes got all the mice, so I bought the dog a resetable steel rat. He couldn't give a rats for the target, but he loves his guns going off.
So much so I can't take him out to the range as he goes bananas. Hunting, he knows he has to be quite and calm.
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Jal,
YOU SHOOT IN THE HOUSE!?!
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What,no comments? Maybe I can kick it along. I first started shooting in my house when I was about 4. With a pop gun. It was murder on flies. The first range I fired on was indoors. (and it was full of people.) Since then there wasn't much reason to shoot indoors, but a few people I visited had indoor ranges in their house, mostly for .177 target air pistol practise. As far as I know, Win. .22 Long Z's, the Z stands for Zimmer, which I think is German for "Room". IE. shoot in a room. In my present house, the kids have left home, my wife works, the downstairs area lends its self to 13m. past a door, chain locked from the inside. The backstop is against the brick garage wall, and consists of a large sand bag. I use a bench rest to test various types inc. CCI cb-Longs. For standing offhand I use the pump up air rifle on only 2 pumps. I've also used all plastic .38cal ammo powered only by a primer in a revolver. All good clean fun... for me and the dog.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, NO! My uncle once had a pickup load of sand dumped thru his basement window which he used as a backstop. He shot .22s down there which pizzed off my aunt no end! She hated the smell. He was also deathly afraid of mice and once emptied a full clip of .45ACP in the kitchen of his hunting camp trying to take one out. Another time a water moccasin dropped off a tree limb into his john boat and he emptied a clip from a Colt Woodsman into the bottom of the boat. He then rowed like a summ a b!tch the get to the dock. My unc was an eccentric guy - the only person I ever knew who shot in the house. O
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[ Another time a water moccasin dropped off a tree limb into his john boat and he emptied a clip from a Colt Woodsman into the bottom of the boat. He then rowed like a summ a b!tch the get to the dock. now thats funny right there!
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hmm how come my previous post quote of oucast's comment didnt show up as a quote from him?
�Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him had better take a closer look at the American Indian.� - Henry Ford
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hmm how come my previous post quote of oucast's comment didnt show up as a quote from him? I dunno. Tried just to see if it would work. Maybe you didn't drop down below [/quote] before you started typing. Those were true stories about my unc. Didn't hit the water mocassin either. O
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Well,if you panty-waisters can't get your head around shooting in a home, try this. Many ranges are indoors. I have an indoor range and my wife and I happen to live above it.
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