Air Gun Kill

[CaptainMal]

Bought a new house but have yet to move in. First time I looked at the house there was a squirrel running around the roof and sitting on one of the lights. Dug out my slingshot and managed to hit my truck.

Noticed this squirrel was living above the garage and pushing out a piece of loose soffit. Forget that slingshot. Got out my trusty Beeman )WalMart special) 17 cal air rifle. Two years ago I killed prairie dogs and ground squirrels with it in Wyoming. Even got my picture in Varmint Hunter with one of the kills. No squirrel will beat me.

There he was. sitting on a rear outside light on the house. I stalked behind a campher tree and lined him up for a shot parallel to the back of the house. Missed?

Darn thing ran around the side of the house and stopped broadside. Next pellet went through him and dug deeply into the stucco wall of my new house. Got it. My wife came out the back sliding door.

"What's going on?" was her first comment.

"What have you done? There's blood dripping all over the back of the house. It's disgusting and I know you did something".

Seems I did not miss that first shot. Must have put one right through that critter because above and behind the light he sat on, you can see where that pellet went along the soffit, tore a hole in it and then came back out to slam into the side of a rear bathroom door frame.

Missed the window.

I just washed the blood off, told her how GOOD I was and kept my mouth shut about the rest.

We will have the whole house painted next week. She will never see the holes in the wall and door frame. You keep your mouth shut.

 

[DOGCAPPER]

You need more power Cap...LT

 

[MrMajestic]

LMAO! Sounds like my Wife! Good shooting Cpt.! Dang Tree Rats!

 

[abishai]

You need a flame thrower ! ......... It's OK sweety, just a natural gas anomaly, the painters will fix it.......

 

[rardoin]

Boy...do I know about that one...only in reverse. My wife, who had only fired handguns prior to our relationship, has been h$ll on the fox squirrels since we discovered several chewed up sofits on the house and the MIL apartment in the back yard. I won a Ruger 10/22 in a raffle and decided to sight it in at 25yds shooting CB longs (not much louder than my old .22 Benjamin air rifle) so as not to disturb the neighbors. In the last year she and I have about 130 confirmed kills (including 4 skunks and an oppossum). NOT included in this count are 3 window panes on the apartment and a notch in the kitchen window sill!!! I have since restricted her shooting lanes to kill zones that are much less hazardous to the apartment window :. She could not understand the notch in the sill until I set-up the shot exactly as she did and displayed to her how the scope line of sight is not coincedent with the rifle bore at 15" from the muzzle and now restrict her from using the edge of the kitchen counter as a rest!

I do love that gal !

 

[jonbearman]

One night I was sitting at my kitchen table and a mouse came out from under my fridge and sat there like a tom and jerry cartoon.I went down and fetched my crossman model 140 in .22cal.I said it was so accurate I could just shoot em.Mind you I had a couple beers in me back when I drank.So I sat at the table playing cards and lo and behold the mouse came out and I lined up on it and fired.That was it,I missed it and now have a hole in my padded vinyl floor.My ex was not happy,I begged to take one more shot and it came out in about ten minutes.I aimed and squeezed and lo and be hold I put another hole in the vinyl and a dent in her new fridge.I paid dearly the next day.I never lived it down and she let the mouse run out the door the next morning besides.My family still reminds me of being such a splendid floor shooting son of a gun.This is a true story and it really happened.

 

[MrMajestic]

That's funny Jon! Speaking of Mice, I was in the old Hog Pen at our Cabin and shot a Mouse with my 2 1/2" S&W Model 19 and 200 grain Hard Cast GC Lead Wide Flat Nose Ammo pushed real hard with 2400. It has Crimson Laser grips but after 2 misses I finally figured out I had to compensate for the beam coming from the grip not coinciding with the 25 yard sight in range. I was blowing holes through the 50 year old rough sawed Oak siding. Third round scored but nothing was found except for some blood and gut on the outside! Guess I used enough gun! We had plans to tear it down so the damage didn't matter. ;D

 

[CaptainMal]

When I used to live in Pa. it was on a farm. The late John Anderson had a groundhog in his barn. It was built on a hill and he kept his John Deere tractor on the lower level.

John asked me if a 20 gauge would kill that hog.

"Of course".

Next day he showed me the damage to his beautiful tractor. John killed that groundhog by shooting it on the upper floor from above. Blew a hole in the barn upper floor and had a meeting with his tractor below.

 

[rogn]

Had the mouse thing happen once late at night . Got my daughters trusty Daisy and drilled the varmint. What I hadnt expected was the penetration power of the Daisy. The blasted BB double lunged the critter bounced off the shoe molding and struck me nearly between the eyes. Wear protective eye gear. We have 3 big pecan trees around the house and every fall we manage to fill a few fry pans with squirrel. With the 177 you really need to go for the head shots. The 22s have more than twice the stopping power but tend to be a tad less accurate, they do damage more meat with body shots. The pellet guns dont upset any other squirrels in the area. I got a RWS 350P this winter, in 177 and its got it all accuracy , stopping power and range.

 

[Lapua40X]

When she asks questions, just tell her she's cooking squirrel for dinner. Yummmm

 

[rayjay]

We had a mouse in the kitchen once. I decided to zap him with my Daisy 717 pellet pistol. I put a cracker on the floor and sat down in the stairwell with a good rest. Eventually he came out, grabbed the cracker and went back to his hidey hole before I knew what happened !!

To add salt to the wound I could hear the blasted thing under the counter eating the cracker !!!!

The next evening I taped the cracker to the floor and drilled him. His last thought was "damn this is a heavy cracker !!". hahhahaha