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Shooting at Varmints in your Yard

  • And related stories (moved from the Randomness Thread).

    The husband of a friend of my wife used to shoot deer out of his second-story window all the time. They live in rural HoCo (although he's currently in jail on unrelated charges).

    Tell your varmint-killing stories here. Boycott the Randomness Thread.

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    MisterSmiley ●

  • During summers in College Park, we used to shoot rats from the roof of our fraternity house.

    There was a big green dumpster in the corner of the parking lot and the rats would parade back and forth along the fence, serious ghetto shooting gallery

    It would take 1 shot to stun them, then another 3 or 4 to finish them off (with pellet guns)

    The dumpster was in the back right corner in this picture, about parallel to the bike shop

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    HungryHerman

  • Hey you woodchucks!! Stop chucking my wood!!!!!!!!

    Terpdad75

  • Not quite shooting but on they way home from the Ravens-Bills a couple of weeks ago my wife texted me that there was a dead squirrel in the front yard. So when I got home from the game I had to bury a randomly dead squirrel in the back of the house. A solid cap to that clustereff of a game.

    bkmalik ●

  • on summer break once I was sleeping on the couch at my parent's house...heard something going through the trash on the front deck. got the bb gun and pumped it up 10+ timesm opened the front door slightly and saw a raccoon. he sat there still and motionless, he was about 10-15 ft away, I took aim and shot him between the eyes. I didn't think it would hurt him but he fell down and convulsed for like 5 mins before dying. then I put him in the trash.

    naegeleterp ●

  • I've shot plenty of cans or whatever off the back fence, and a buddy and I once fought a drunken duel with black powder pistols loaded with bottle rockets (kids, don't try this at home), but I've never shot a varmit in the yard. I have a pretty effective varmit control system in the form of couple of hounds. Well, one actual hound (walker), and the other GSD-mix. Anything on four legs is game, they've nailed squirrels, and rabbits, and the groundhog that was living under the shed. The neighborhood cats and raccoons know enough to stay the eff out, but I'm sure one of these days a skunk will be dumb enough to try it. I rue the day.

    OttoMaddox

  • I saw a beautiful red-headed woodpecker in my back yard. Beautiful, but the bastard is pecking holes in my trees and fence posts, so if I had my crossbow handy I would have ended him. There's also something in my yard that is making holes in the ground, but I'm not sure exactly what it is. It kind of stays out of the middle of the yard, so it might be a snake. My winter plans include pouring napalm into the holes.

    MisterSmiley ●

  • i worked with the biggest deer hunter the world has ever seen....he came to work one day with a 18 point (it was huge) buck in the back of his truck that he claimed to have shot in his yard. Then his brother showed up and said he passed that buck on the side of the road (hit by car)

    anyway, this same guy did try to shoot a deer from his 2nd story window one morning, but instead blew a hole in his roof and knocked the gutter off the house

    when i was a teen i shot at a family of groundhogs all summer long (pellet gun) in our back yard; they kept expanding their nest and eventually i got bored of shooting at them so we poured gas in the tunnels and lit it up

    winterps

  • When I was 12 my dad let me get a wrist rocket with the caveat that I was not to shoot at anything that was alive. Of course the first chance I got I took aim at a squirrel about 20 yards away thinking there was no way I'd ever hit it but instead I nailed it with the first shot. I felt awful but was more freaked out about my dad finding the dead squirrel in the back yard so I buried it in the flower bed but way too shallow. Our dog dug it out a couple of days later and proudly presented it to us on the porch. No one was the wiser. This is the first time in my life I've ever admitted this to anyone.

    Not a jack ass. I am a 4 star poster on RCMB - spartanfan48413

    mschafe

  • It would be hard for me to shoot anything in my yard without the cops showing up -- even with a pellet gun. I live inside the beltway in Silver Spring and I'm not sure I could pull it off without getting noticed. I'd have to open a window and stand way back in my house. It would be fun to try...that rat is driving me nuts.

    Update -- there are two squirrels eating seeds from under my bird feeder as I write this. The cayenne pepper doesn't seem to be affecting them in the slightest. I fully expect one of them to knock on my door and ask for beers to wash it down......grumble

    This post was edited by Dean Wormer on 11/8/2010 at 12:47 PM

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    Dean Wormer

  • My wifes uncle had a herd of deer run this his house...

    http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/weird/Deer-Attack-Damascus-Home-87167572.html

    RaiseHigh said... No. This is jtp's doing. He's kept me around for his bizarre HOF resume.

    jtpterp

  • A wrist rocket? Like Boba Fett?

    MisterSmiley ●

  • When I was growing up I was a terror on birds in my neighborhood. I grew up in Western Maryland so me and my neighbor walking around the neigborhood with pellet guns was no big deal. I got my pellet gun around 9 probably and used it regularly until I was a teen. I got filthly good with it and could easily nail a bird at 30 yards or more. I'd say the bird death toll was close to 1,000. Now that I'm all grown up I concentrate on the groundhogs in the yard with my .22. Just got a Glock 9mm that I'm wanting to try out on the groundhogs next. And yes, I am a redneck.

    TerpBaseball

  • MisterSmiley said...

    A wrist rocket? Like Boba Fett?

    You've never seen one of these?

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    Not a jack ass. I am a 4 star poster on RCMB - spartanfan48413

    mschafe

  • Does that 40 post count you promised include or exclude your posts MisterSmiley?

    JuniorGT

  • Include. The house always wins.

    And yeah, I thought that was just a slingshot with a forearm support, didn't realize it was called a "wrist rocket."

    MisterSmiley ●

  • Lately I have had deer hanging out in my front yard almost every night. Just missed killing them with my car a couple of times - although that's at a bend just down the street

    http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/40063/the-cranky-redskins-fans-guide-to-dan-snyder/

    irvingbabbitt

  • When I was little my grandfather told me that the little horns on his car (big Buick or Oldsmobile, something like that) were deer whistles. I assumed they were to attract the deer so he could hunt them by running them over in his bigass car.

    MisterSmiley ●

  • Growing up I lived in a neighborhood with about 30 kids (25 boys, 5 girls) within 3-4 years of each other, so we all hung out. When we were 12 or 13, all of the boys decided to ask for BB guns or pellet guns for XMas, thinking that a few of us would get them and we would be set. For some stupid reason, all of our parents obliged, basically allowing us to form a Lord of the Fliesesque militia.

    Dec 26th, we all met while our parents were at work and climbed onto my roof and both of my neighbors roofs and laid waste to dozens of woodland critters. It looked like a Revolutionary War battlefield, just lines of birds and squirrels sprawled out dead. Right when we realized that we were going to have to clean that up, every parent got home and we all lost our BB guns.

    My dad still used it to kill varmints in our yard and at Thanksgiving two years ago, he shot my uncle in the ass after losing a game of drunken ping-pong and my mom made him give it back to me.

    This post has been edited 2 times, most recently by JManslow on 11/8/2010 at 2:12 PM

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    JManslow

  • I bought a blow gun at a gun show and it had some seriously sharp darts when I was about 12. A decent shot would stick into a tree and would require more than a small tug to get make it come out. I killed a bird and a squirrel before my mom saw me doing this. She took it away, and I assumed that she trashed it. I actually found it in the garage a few years ago.

    Let me see, my grandfather and I would shoot coyotes from his back porch (in the mountains of North Carolina). He's killed a few wild turkeys and deer from his porch as well.

    This post was edited by EricTerp on 11/8/2010 at 2:44 PM

    EricTerp

  • My friends and I took out our share of squirrels with a couple of pump action BB guns. Also stuffed Black Cats and M100's in pieces of bread and tried to feed them to the ducks at the neighborhood pond.

    Scuttle UM

  • bkmalik said...

    Not quite shooting but on they way home from the Ravens-Bills a couple of weeks ago my wife texted me that there was a dead squirrel in the front yard. So when I got home from the game I had to bury a randomly dead squirrel in the back of the house. A solid cap to that clustereff of a game.

    Dead squirrel + trash bag = solution.

    Why would you bury a dead (or live) squirrel? Were you close to it? When our dogs died, they went out in the trash. Our cats get a burial. Mainly because it's easier to bury a cat than a cocker spaniel.

    Also, does this thread include illegals?

    This post was edited by SATerp on 11/8/2010 at 3:29 PM

    SATerp

  • Used to have a BB gun when I was little, then for some reason the house I lived at in college had one also. We would bait rats in CP with food at night and shoot em, it was funny because we would always shoot squirrels and often you'd be aimed in on one and then right before you were about to shoot youd heard our neighrbors fire at the same target. We used to do all kids of stuff with BB guns, a campfire plus cans of wd40 and some BB guns always makes for a good time.

    VelvetBulldozer

  • lol @ city slickers

    kickin' the tires

    groove_jones ●

  • illegals, legals, any kind of varmint is fine. You want to admit to murdering your neighbors and feeding them to your dogs, that's also within thread guidelines imo.

    MisterSmiley ●

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