snert
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Just had to share this one:
it was 1240 AM and I was just about to fall asleep when I heard a rustle in the hallway outside my bedroom. i rolled over to look. Son's room closed. No shadows in the hallway to indicate any of my other kids were up for a run of nature. There, heard it again, closer. Pretty dark in my room. Suddenly about four inches from my face something whizzed by. yep, dang bat in the house! I gently laid a hand on my sleeping bride, waking her telling her to not move (I did not need theatrics) and that a bat was in the bedroom. i saw it exit into the 60 foot hallway. All the other bedrooms except one were open. I worked my way down the hall until i could shut all the doors, keeping the intruder in the hallway. After opening a window and trying to shoo him out for about 1/2 hour, I gave up. went to the safe, grabbed the Marauder 25 caliber PCP and came back. He finally perched in a hanging wall decorative spray of flowers. 40 feet, 12X turned down to 33 feet parralax, offhand.....zap! DRT.
After a clorox cleanup and disposal, I noted that a 25 cal pellet will penetrate three layers of plaster, but not aluminum siding... Gotta keep that in mind. Sure glad this is a rental....
Not one kid even moved or knew and the bride was asleep before I could get fully in bed. But now I am wide awake....
Just never know when a varmint hunt might come along! 8)
it was 1240 AM and I was just about to fall asleep when I heard a rustle in the hallway outside my bedroom. i rolled over to look. Son's room closed. No shadows in the hallway to indicate any of my other kids were up for a run of nature. There, heard it again, closer. Pretty dark in my room. Suddenly about four inches from my face something whizzed by. yep, dang bat in the house! I gently laid a hand on my sleeping bride, waking her telling her to not move (I did not need theatrics) and that a bat was in the bedroom. i saw it exit into the 60 foot hallway. All the other bedrooms except one were open. I worked my way down the hall until i could shut all the doors, keeping the intruder in the hallway. After opening a window and trying to shoo him out for about 1/2 hour, I gave up. went to the safe, grabbed the Marauder 25 caliber PCP and came back. He finally perched in a hanging wall decorative spray of flowers. 40 feet, 12X turned down to 33 feet parralax, offhand.....zap! DRT.
After a clorox cleanup and disposal, I noted that a 25 cal pellet will penetrate three layers of plaster, but not aluminum siding... Gotta keep that in mind. Sure glad this is a rental....
Not one kid even moved or knew and the bride was asleep before I could get fully in bed. But now I am wide awake....
Just never know when a varmint hunt might come along! 8)
