open season ferocious mice in garage

Mouse Hunting

I still have a very clear image of my uncle with his single shot pellet pistol made by Diana....break barrel style cocking mechanism. He'd put an aluminum pie plate with a little cornmeal in it under the woodstove in the kitchen at camp then sit in the bunk room. Usually within 10 to 15 minutes he'd have 2 or 3 targets. Can't say that he was able to put a very big dent in the mouse population but he had fun trying.
 
Are you guy so afeared that ya gotta use a rifle? I shot them out with my 9mm, I'm a brave SOB. Never had one that took more than two hits to put down. One night I got charged, it was like the movie "Willard". Fortunatly I had 5 18 round mags loaded up. They took me down to the last round, which I was saving for myself.
 
Cats spray to mark their territory. So indoor cats stink. Out doors cats poop in the flower bed and that is the only forgivable crime they commit. I will kill any and all feral cats I can get access to.
Brent
 
Won't have a cat around, they creep me out. Besides it's much more fun to

trap, and shoot em. Since I plugged the hole in the door, and started the

extermination, I have em pretty well wiped out. I think I am down to the

last few, just hope they aren't arming themselves for a counter attack!

flyboy
 
I never got to shot any mice with Radar my rat terrier around ..i seen him kill 6 of them before i could even move ..he could put a cat to shame when it came to killing mice and rats ....The only thing that makes me gag is to smell a rotting mouse...:barf:
 
A cat stuck in the house is a miserable creature if it has any natural prey drive at all. A loose cat is bad juju in North America. It is non native and is responsible for killing too many native creatures. How many is too many you ask.... ONE... That is how many is too many...
Brent
 
+1000 hogdogs

Feral cats (and dogs) are terrible around here and have wreaked (sp?) havoc on our game populations. Should be shot on sight.

Cats became obsolete the minute Decon was invented.
 
Since I havnt owned a pellet rifle in many many years. For the small vermin, I load shot capsuls (with BB's ) over 3 gr. of bullseye on my 44 mag. Seems to do the job quite well.
 
Hey, you guys ever tried Decon. You can put it where the pets can't get to it--mice disappear.

No such thing as a stupid question. What is stupid is not asking it.
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That's the common doctrine, but we all know it's hard to keep from laughing when we hear that.::D

No need for a "Stupid Questions" thread to prove my point.;)
 
Our townhomes seem to get surges of Norwegian roof rats and occassionally little tiny field mice. For the small mice, the traps with the sticky goo inside them work like a charm. Had one trap where mouse got stuck and a 2nd mouse tried to go over him before getting stuck.

They're not so good for larger rats though. Not without some nice bait like peanut butter.

Best solution we had one year was the three stooges. Three cats ranging from 19-1/2 lbs to 9 lbs. Ever watch three cats play "mouse ball" with a rat? Male whacks it to his sister who smacks it to her son who swats it back to his uncle and the game continues until one of them kills the critter.

That 19-1/2 lb orange male tabby and his 12-1/2 pound sister were part Maine Coon cats. Sudden death to rodents of all types. The female even snagged a pidgeon in flight from her tree perch one day. Watched that male cat put a pitbull to flight and the neighbor's german shepherd used to give him a wide berth. :D

Put the Decon poison next to a dish of vodka. They eat the Decon, get thirsty, get drunk, die. Or they get drunk, eat some Decon and die. If you leave a small box with a rat sized opening, they'll get drunk and crawl in there thinking it's a safe place and die instead of getting in your walls and dying. Ugh.
 
Be careful, they seem to be reaching the point where they're fighting back...

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I hate clowns, evil dancing clowns are the devil!!!! Funny, when I found the

pellet gun, in a box stuffed in the basement, right next to it were 2 throwing

stars I had bought when I was probably 12. If the mice come back, armed

with little tiny 1911's I think I'll pull out the throwing stars. flyboy
 
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