Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Living inside town limits sucks.

The big one!

6:30 AM today, I watched a grey fox making off with one of the daughters white leghorn layers. He spent about five minute working at getting the hen through the stockade panel fencing. He finally dropped her, jumped through the fence then reached back in and pulled her through.

I had plenty of time, I could have run inside and grabbed the 10-22 from the safe and popped him at thirty five yards. Except for that pesky "firearms in the city limits" thing.

Out at the farm, he would have caught a 123 gr 6.5 mm, or a 95 gr from the 243.

The fox calmly walked to the corner of the property, hopped through another wire panel fence and into a small creek bed. Surely has hungry babies to feed.

I told Sis we should set a snare where it comes through the fence. But we would probably catch her damned house cat.

Meanwhile Sis is catching the survivor hens and putting them inside their designated protective housing where they belong. No more "free range" eggs around here.

How about a lovely air rifle? That would put an end to Mr Fox and his antics. Fairly quiet too. Then again, there’s a suppressed 22 shooting subsonic too. You are in ID, kinda doubt they would care unless you are in Boise.

Air soft?

The CCI Quiet .22 which are listed as ~750 FPS are wicked quiet through my Sparrow suppressed RAR.

Those situations are best resolved right around the 4th of July.

No chit... I have told my wife a zillion times that I will NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT live inside some 'city limits'.................. EVER!!

In our area we can shoot air rifles, pellet guns, as long as the pellet can be "reasonably expected" to stay on our property.

A single shot? Who’s gonna know?





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Yep, living in town sucks. Thankfully I haven't since the '80's.

Our local police chief got onto the neighbor kid for shooting a skunk with his bow. “Use a damn 22 like a normal person” was his recommendation.

Many towns have firearms laws that include almost any projectile. Do you want the neighbors to embed high speed pellets or an arrow in your living room wall?

CB caps been doing it in the city around here (hear?) for quite awhile, no one's the wiser.

Is a town ordinance going to keep a neighbor who is stupid enough to shoot your house from doing so? Probably not.

Intelligent people use common sense to make decisions. Be sure of your target and backstop at all times when using firearms or any projectile launching mechanism.

22 quiet or cb caps.

I use CB caps and a bolt action rifle. Can shoot all afternoon in my back yard and no complaints.

I knew someone that was just in city limit. The limit was the back yard. Anyway, he had problems with other dogs coming around and breeding his pure bred dogs. Shot one with bird shot. Never came back and it walked with a limp for awhile. It was the policeman's dog.

Don't know when was the last time any you all filled out a 4473, but its a question on there now. "Do you live in City Limits? YES. NO. UNSURE . Big Bro is tracking for some way to restrict our rights for sure.

This is why I don’t live in town

Crossbow, problem solved.

22 quiet is more than quiet enough for anyplace that you can raise hens.