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Post by wilmsmeyer on Feb 9, 2006 23:10:04 GMT -5
I bought a novelty blowgun at a gun show last year. Chrono's at about 190 fps with broadhead darts. Did a lot off shooting in the house and found it to be fun and deadly mouse-of-angle accurate to 15-20 feet or so.
Brought it to camp this year and recorded a kill on a slippery mouse. Pinned it to the window sill with 1st shot. After it stopped spinning around, awfully stuck, I administered a death blow from 3-4 feet.
Normally, at night, while sitting next to the wood stove, I keep a pair of safety glasses and ear plugs next to me along with my .22 pistol loaded with birdshot on the table. When I see mice, I shoot at them. Even at close range, I'm lucky to lay them out cold. That little shot just doesn't have the pop you need unless you get a few perfectly placed BB's.
The blowgun seems to be the ticket and I think I will probably use it more often on those pesky little buggars.
Those deadly snap traps just aren't sporting enough!
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Post by RAF on Feb 10, 2006 13:38:04 GMT -5
Sounds like you found something to keep you busy in the evenings. What happened to the good old days when guys spent the evenings in camp, playing cards and drinking?   |
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Feb 10, 2006 14:24:15 GMT -5
The guys I "camp" with all have their main houses (and families) within a few miles and go home after the games and adult beverages. I'm lucky enough to have to travel an hour to get there....so I stay.
Don't worry, not too much has changed......
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Post by jims on Feb 10, 2006 17:49:55 GMT -5
Would a pellet gun be a good mouse gun?
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Feb 10, 2006 19:57:01 GMT -5
Ballistically yes....inside a camp..no...in my opinion. A Richochet with a pellet will tear a hole in your melon. A richochet with the bird shot feels like a grain of sand driven by a windstorm. Darts rarely, if ever, richocet effectively.
I have this one down to a science!
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Post by RAF on Feb 11, 2006 8:11:55 GMT -5
years ago I tried some of those 22 shot shells. Wanted to control house sparrows that were trying to infest my purple martine house. Had used them when I was a kid at the local Sportman show to shot skeet indoors and worked. They didn't work at all on the sparrows. While speaking to my gun smith one day, he told me they're no good in a rifled barrel. Would need a smooth bore. I don't have one and wasn't going to do that to one of my rifles. Now I shoot the sparrows with a pellet rifle with a cheap 3 - 9 scope.
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Post by wilmsmeyer on Feb 11, 2006 8:33:45 GMT -5
That will fix them good!
At 10 feet (yes feet) my Ruger MK-II .22 pistol throws about an 8-10 inch pattern. I think the rifling sprays 'em around.
I shoot the CCI version with the blue capsule on the end. I always wondered if the crimped over ones would shoot better in a rifled barrel. Seems as if there would be no wad to engage rifling. All it would take is a way to condense that pattern down to a few inches at 15 feet. That would fix a mouse up real good!
What a topic.....firearm hunting inside occupied dwellings!
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Post by dennishoddy on Jul 28, 2006 12:47:31 GMT -5
That will fix them good! At 10 feet ( yes feet) my Ruger MK-II .22 pistol throws about an 8-10 inch pattern. I think the rifling sprays 'em around. I shoot the CCI version with the blue capsule on the end. I always wondered if the crimped over ones would shoot better in a rifled barrel. Seems as if there would be no wad to engage rifling. All it would take is a way to condense that pattern down to a few inches at 15 feet. That would fix a mouse up real good! What a topic.....firearm hunting inside occupied dwellings! I also use the CCI .22 shotshells, but, I use them on the wood bees that burrow into the trim board on the front porch. I started using my Ruger Mark III hunter, but it just didn't seem to pattern good, so now I use my old 1890 winchester hex barrel pump. It keeps a tight pattern out to about 20 feet, and its great fun to pick those bees off out of the sky. ;D They are hard to hit, darting around like they do. |
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Post by MountainMan on Jul 28, 2006 14:21:43 GMT -5
Doesn't this one belong on the Varmint Hunter's Forum?  ;D |
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Post by MountainMan on Jul 28, 2006 14:30:39 GMT -5
When I was a teenager, our next-door neighbor would just open up her side/back door and throw her table scraps out into the woods next to her house, which was behind ours. She had chickens that roamed free and thought that was the way to feed them. In actuallity, the main thing she fed were the RATS.  For a while there one summer, we could shine a flashlight up into the woods and see dozens of pairs of eyes all turn and stare back at us. You could take a rake a move away a section of leaves the size of a car door and find all kinds of trails and burrows, especially around old logs and stuff. My brothers and I would compete with each other on picking them off with an old Crossman pellet gun with a 4x scope. One of us would flick the light on and the other would locate a pair of eyes and try to shoot between and maybe just barely below them before they blinked out of sight. You know you got a hit when you heard the thrashing in the leaves after the shot. We actually cleaned them out pretty good that summer and didn't see many after that. Then the chickens all disappeared and we finally convinced the neighbor to quit throwing her garbage into the woods. Ah, well, that's probably the closest I'll ever get to prairie dog hunting. ;D |
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