Air Gun Kill

[danny]

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.

Hey kid, you'll shoot your eye out!

Danny

 

[snert]

My wife is fond of recounting this story...

We were living in a tiny apartment in the first month after we were married. It was a servant quarters in a large NY mansion near NYC. It also had an infestation of squirrels in the attic. I had no idea squirrels were so nocturnal. After several weeks of listening to crittters run about in the ceiling above our head, distracting her from ...well... we were just married ya know....I determined to eliminate the distraction. I waited till she was gone for the day, snuck outside into the heavy shrubbery in the backyard directly under the hole in the soffit that they were using to gain access. I had my Winchester/Diana 450 177 underlever that I had since I was 12. It was not long until the first bushytailed intimacy distractor came along a thin branch above me. One down...
Then two down
Then Three down.
Then four down.
Then five down
Then six down. All in about half an hour.
Now mind you I was in downtown Nyack, near NYC in 1987. It was NOT a hunting friendly area and lets just say that what I was doing wasnt exactly within the bounds of the law. But then, desperate times, desperate measures. (The statute of limitations applies here)

Feeling pretty proud of my manly accomplishments, I ditched all but one of the tree rats, but I really wanted wifey to know about my skill and studly protection of my..err...her...err...our... newly discovered night time intimacy.
So I took #6 in the apartment. When she came home I met her at the door with that tree rat held by the tail behind my back. As she came thru the door, I boldly said "Wait till you see what I got". She smiled. I then whipped out mr bloody squirrel, so proud of myself. She screamed. She ran. She shuddered. She yelled. And to this day reminds me that a newly married bride expects flowers, not a tree rat.

Ya, it took a week or so to recover from that one. But once we did, we were no longer distracted by a rodent scurrying about above our heads. We have been happily married for 38 years and have four grown children and four grandkids. She is now used to seeing videos of exploding groundhogs and dead squirrels. Our house is littered with empty cartridges, pellets, holsters, and safes. I made my living eventully, from guns. Now she just smiles, generally amused by my thinking...

There are a lot of problems that can be cured with the proper application of ballistic superiority!

 

[Larry Koch]

PCP Air Force .25 caliber. quick and quite. Or any quality .25 cal PCP rifle.

.22 is to small

 

[Midger]

During summer yellow jackets would come into my woodshop shop and end up buzzing around the sky-light. The sky-light was about 15’ above the shop floor.
Time to grab the pin nailer and shoot those pests down. It was always fun watching those things come spiraling down like a wounded WWll Jap fighter plane doing the circle of death. Accuracy was nonexistent with the nail gun from 10’. It was the sheer volume of firepower that did the trick.

 

[jds holler]

Our tally on the yard-starlings this year was 26. That might not sound so good to you feed-lot shooters, but with these yard birds it's pretty good. After the first few get killed, the rest of em get about as smart as a good sized whitetail buck.


Weapon of choice is mainly 22 single shots with CCI CB caps.
Millie does't like the taste of em, but she soldiers through every retrieve with enthusiasm (and a little wretching)
jd

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

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.

Your wife and my GF use same language verbatim. I thought it was my Sweetie talking!!

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

story about bb coming back between the eyes is surprising, but it shouldn't be! better safe than sorry! that is 100% something I would do.

 

[JEFFPPC]

I'm lovin' this thread!

Some great stories here that we all can relate to in regard to unwanted varmints in and around the house and steps taken to 'correct' the situation. Keep 'em coming, I'm still chuckling!

Nothing like some of the stories here, but recently I wacked a starling off the bird feeder (hate those nasty things!), and as one would expect, a solid body shot with my Beeman R10 .20cal went through the bird right through the plastic tube on the feeder, destroying it.

Wife asked me "where is the bird feeder?" Told her it must have dropped and broke because of that dang squirrel that's been raiding it. Silence is golden, just blame it on a rodent.

LOL, that hits close to home.