Steel drum meets .25 Cricket rifle w/ 47 FPE from muzzle
Shot this at 30 yds, and figure maybe it’s 35 FPE at the drum? Haven’t recovered from the last time I shot my Chrony, so I didn’t put it out there to check.
It’s over at the Yellow.
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I guess we all have out critter friend/foe list, depending on our situation. I raise a lot of food crops, a huge garden, fruit trees, etc. So, the squirrels, rabbits, groundhogs, chipmunks and deer are on the hit list. Fox, mink, black snakes, bobcat, raptors and other carnivores are welcome as they help control the veg-eating hordes. My side business also is growing plants for sale. We spend a lot of money on fencing, but it’s hard to keep everything out.
I had a brain-damaged squirrel for a pet. A cat bit his skull when he was a “pinky” so he was partly paralyzed. Great pet though, lived seven years. In winter, I’ll trap Flying squirrels from the attic and house them in a big outdoor pen until spring. Then, when I turn ’em loose, the attic is too hot for them to return there, plus the big black snakes will ensure their absence!
My wife hit a big buck and then about a year later a doe. She doesn’t play favorites. She was way too happy to get a nice fancy new car.
That reminds me that I want one more new airgun (.177 Compact Cricket) and good airgun compressor (I have a Shoebox right now) before I retire and she wants a new RV after the RV show in town two weeks ago. There is no stopping her eventual RV purchase and it gives me new leverage for this years toy purchases. She will claim they are a part of my July birthday presents but I can live with that. She knows my annual bonus comes out the first week of March so she is already mentally claiming a good deal of it for that RV. 😯 I have to play this correctly. Timing is everything.
We lost one of our deer to a vehicle out in front of the house right after Christmas. Just woke up one morning and she was laying on the front slope off the edge of pavement with her head in the ditch. Then something drug her up into our front yard by the next morning before I could dispose of her? I think it was some loose hunting dogs or something…at least I hope it was……damn sure hope it wasn’t yotes? Her head was gone, and her hind legs chewed up pretty good? Then I saw some buzzards hanging around the blood remains later in the day after I got rid of the carcass?
Sorry to hear about your wife’s minivan. Twice! Ouch!
We lost one of our deer to a vehicle out in front of the house right after Christmas. Just woke up one morning and she was laying on the front slope off the edge of pavement with her head in the ditch. Then something drug her up into our front yard by the next morning before I could dispose of her? I think it was some loose hunting dogs or something…at least I hope it was……damn sure hope it wasn’t yotes? Her head was gone, and her hind legs chewed up pretty good? Then I saw some buzzards hanging around the blood remains later in the day after I got rid of the carcass?
Someone on one of these airgun forums had a real beaver problem. I can’t remember who that was. If they move in I am moving out. They have restocked black bears in southern Missouri but I have not had one in the immediate neighborhood yet. Every once in a while one wanders close by and they have been within five miles or so. My wife just got a new Ford Escape Titanium about six months ago after two major deer hits on her minivan.
I’ve only seen one since I’ve been here…..sitting out there eating the deer corn one night?
I used to trap beavers for the NCDOT back in the 90’s. Now that’s a destructive lot!!!!!!
Wow, I would have been in heaven there as a kid with all those coons, or maybe I would have learned to despise them like everyone else?
I’ve only seen one since I’ve been here…..sitting out there eating the deer corn one night?
I used to trap beavers for the NCDOT back in the 90’s. Now that’s a destructive lot!!!!!!
The fox is harmless but I am in a war with the raccoons. They are so destructive in my subdivision and so numerous that the neighbors have asked for my help fighting them. You don’t dare leave your garage door up here or they will make you real sorry you did. 😈 I think the problem is we are smack dab in the middle of their habitat with the woods and creeks and they want us out. I know someone in California that has a similar problem with skunks. Although we don/t need them on our property in this state we all have pest licenses for cleaning the raccoons out in the surrounding woods as well.
I dunno…..the fox would make me nervous around my little 9 pound chihuahua and my 14 pound Boston?
I would probably see what my .25 cal would do if I saw a yote or a fox in the back yard?
We saw a fox walk off with a slice of watermelon a few years back when we first moved here, but I quit putting the used slices out and haven’t see it since?
I’ve had pet coons as a kid, so I can’t shoot them, and I’ve rescued a pair as an adult, and I’ve rehabbed a few squirrels too…so I don’t shoot them. I’ve even been involved in raising a pair of baby otters. They were the coolest. Wish I still had video of that. Had the tape in the VCR years ago and it got taped over accidentally?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a tree hugger or a critter hugger. I totally understand the need to hunt and like to watch hunting vids and read the posts, but I just don’t have the killer instinct in me anymore…..well…..unless it’s a damn loud ass crow…hate them cawing bastids….the .25 works nicely in that department 😉
I would probably have a soft spot for foxes if I ever rehabbed one.
Check this out….I had a frikkin’ bald squirrel!!!
Did a web post on it. It was done years ago when me and wife number two were splitting.
http://abagator-ivil.tripod.com/id1.html
Wait a minute….you shoot the coons, and you make a pet out of the fox??? LOL!!
I dunno…..the fox would make me nervous around my little 9 pound chihuahua and my 14 pound Boston?
I would probably see what my .25 cal would do if I saw a yote or a fox in the back yard?
We saw a fox walk off with a slice of watermelon a few years back when we first moved here, but I quit putting the used slices out and haven’t see it since?
I’ve had pet coons as a kid, so I can’t shoot them, and I’ve rescued a pair as an adult, and I’ve rehabbed a few squirrels too…so I don’t shoot them. I’ve even been involved in raising a pair of baby otters. They were the coolest. Wish I still had video of that. Had the tape in the VCR years ago and it got taped over accidentally?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a tree hugger or a critter hugger. I totally understand the need to hunt and like to watch hunting vids and read the posts, but I just don’t have the killer instinct in me anymore…..well…..unless it’s a damn loud ass crow…hate them cawing bastids….the .25 works nicely in that department 😉
I would probably have a soft spot for foxes if I ever rehabbed one.
Sorry to take over the thread. 😯 We call this guy our pet fox. He showed up a few years ago once the coyotes seemed to leave. I read they don’t get along and the coyotes will kill the red foxes. Here he is sitting like a dog and eating sunflower seeds off of the ground. He is even friendlier than the deer. Sometimes in the middle of the night he will do those fox screams which raises the hair on the back of my neck. We got home one night about two months ago and he stood in the yard in the dark and screamed at us (looking for food no less).
Those are my sparrow collectors. Even though they are all steel the 30 cal destroys them if you don’t limit your shots to the sides. Actually, I have a few hickory trees and the squirrels ignore the food and go for the nuts every time. Chipmunks are my third favorite quarry after the sparrows and raccoons. They eat and tear apart everything. That video is cool. I have had a coyote walk in front of my John Deere tractor while I was cutting carrying some road kill back to its den in the woods for a litter a few times. I knew she had a litter because they would all howl when sirens went past up on the road at the entrance to our subdivision.
That’s the biggest rack we’ve seen here “a six point”. I see you have plenty of bird feeders and looks like squirrel feeders too?
Me mowing the grass and the deer checking me out
Oh man, you got me beat with that back yard and a “Creek”!!!! Sadly no creek here, maybe a muddy ditch or two.
That’s the biggest rack we’ve seen here “a six point”. I see you have plenty of bird feeders and looks like squirrel feeders too?
Me mowing the grass and the deer checking me out
That’s funny. Your backyard looks like mine with heavy woods past the grass. Mine climbs a foothill on the Ozarks past a big wet weather creek about 30 yards in the woods past the last target. There is a six pointer in that phone photo at the corn. Those targets are 30, 40, and 50 yards.
Holy smokes! We don’t have any that big down here at Camp Fussell!
My chihuahua stalking and chasing a couple of deer.
Not a good photo from my phone but our large buck from last summer.
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I had a brain-damaged squirrel for a pet. A cat bit his skull when he was a “pinky” so he was partly paralyzed. Great pet though, lived seven years. In winter, I’ll trap Flying squirrels from the attic and house them in a big outdoor pen until spring. Then, when I turn ’em loose, the attic is too hot for them to return there, plus the big black snakes will ensure their absence!
Good for you Bog, taking care of that squirrel for 7 yrs. Wow, I commend you.
I’ve got a friend who’s a squirrel rehabber, so that’s where I take them when I find them now days. She has several brain damaged ones or injured ones that she has kept for years. But most get turned back out into the wild when they are old enough or well enough.
It’s probably best that I don’t speak of any raptors, or carnivores that might have or could be on my hit list? LOL Gotta look out for my little pups . Don’t want them getting toted off or flown out of here!