Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Raccoon pest control:Legally using a lawn mower muffler as .22 Suppressor

Nowadays, when I have a live trapped 'coon I need to dispose of (I have found no animal "rescue" groups that will answer their phone when I need them to take one off my hands, and have been told by someone in the Parks & Wildlife Dept that it is illegal to simply drive them down the road and release them), I drive my riding mower up close to the trap, rev the engine up all the way, and pop the critter with a .22 short. Neighbors only hear the mower, no BATF fee or waiting period required.

Good idea!

I like it, but what happens when there is snow on the ground?

Snowblower.

An empty 2 liter soda bottle works fine too. A little debbil told me dat

sounds like a practical use for the assegai I brought back from RSA!


I have always just taken live trapped animals and set the trap in water....return in ten minutes and pour out wet dead victim

Ya....I wanna see you try that one where you live now

Sorry to say that gunfire in town is often a life changing event. Most communities allow firing a pellet gun on your own property as long as it damages no one else's property.

As to snow on the Texas coast - no worries there, that'll be a cold day in hell.

PS I'm sure glad the south invented words like 'I'm, that'll , y'all , you'll, they'll, we'll, and woozum.

Yeah, ever since Doc became a transplant Tejano, he thinks a snowblower is a queer eskimo

CCI CB Longs. Thank me later.

Then wrap in garbage bag, put in chest freezer until garbage collection day.

Ain't much on purposely drowning anything, seems like way to violent of a death to me.

Yeah. That's why I shoot stuff in the lungs. It's violent free.



Travis

Just because I'd rather be shot behind the ear than drown, doesn't mean I won't drown a damn squirrel.

Or something like a Marauder .25 cal air rifle. It has a built in shrouded barrel suppressor system.

Come watch my wife when she finds a snake. Violent does not begin to describe...

I don't think Jeff would make a real good trapper...


Travis

It's a proven fact that most red squirrels cannot out-swim a live trap when submerged. But I keep trying to find super squirrel.

'have been told by someone in the Parks & Wildlife Dept that it is illegal to simply drive them down the road and release them"

Whoever "someone" talked to at the Texas Parks and Wildlife should have been told that it's also illegal in Texas to trap raccoons unless you have a trapper's license.

A real trapper uses a jab stick in the lungs with acetone in the syringe. Its fast quiet and humane.