Chipmunk season has just started.
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Chipmunk season has just started.
Last year I picked off 6 or 7 with my Mountie 39a and super colibris. So, between me and the stray cats in the neighborhood, I thought I'd seen the last of them.
Was walking the son to school this morning, and upon return, I see two scampering across the front yard.
So, if I saw two, it pretty much means there's at least 5 waiting in the holes.
Can't stand them, but at least they provide me some recreation.
Was walking the son to school this morning, and upon return, I see two scampering across the front yard.
So, if I saw two, it pretty much means there's at least 5 waiting in the holes.
Can't stand them, but at least they provide me some recreation.
...and I don't think he even knows it...Walks around with a half-assed grin...If he feels fear, he don't show it. Just rides into hell and back again.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
I won't tell PETA, if you don't tell 'em...
I shot one with a Marlin 1894 in .44 Mag once from about 25 feet...
I shot one with a Marlin 1894 in .44 Mag once from about 25 feet...
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Do chipmunks do damage to stuff?
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
AJMD429
You are kidding, right?
You are kidding, right?
Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
sounds like war is in the air... :)
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
You better believe it Blaine, they can be a real nuisance, local cats seem to take care of ours mostlyBlaineG wrote:Do chipmunks do damage to stuff?
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Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
That reminds me of the great chipmunk war of '01. I had some Sappers undermining the stone wall out front. I thought I had come to a truce, but discovered they were stealing. Bird seed from the garage. The peace having been broken, I stuck a garden hose into the wall.
I thought I'd seen the last of them. Two days later, while cleaning the pool, I fished two of them out. Nearest I could figure, a suicide squad had tried to swim down to the bottom and chew through. I think their plan was to wash away my mound system in retaliation for me flooding out their burrow. It was only luck that they couldn't hold their breath long enough.
They're cagey little bastards.....
I thought I'd seen the last of them. Two days later, while cleaning the pool, I fished two of them out. Nearest I could figure, a suicide squad had tried to swim down to the bottom and chew through. I think their plan was to wash away my mound system in retaliation for me flooding out their burrow. It was only luck that they couldn't hold their breath long enough.
They're cagey little bastards.....
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
A bb gun works well if you're within 50 feet or so.
But a 44 mag? Was there anything left of em
There is NEVER a truce with chipmonks
But a 44 mag? Was there anything left of em
There is NEVER a truce with chipmonks
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
No - I'd just bought the gun, was sighting on a dirt clod, when the little wire-chewer appeared.Mescalero wrote:AJMD429
You are kidding, right?
The tail was found about five feet from the impact zone.UncleBuck wrote:But a 44 mag? Was there anything left of em?
Unfortunately, it was right in front of a wheelbarrow, and the bullet also made a large hole in that...
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Over the years, I have shot several with a 220 Swift. I never find any pieces.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
1894c wrote:sounds like war is in the air...
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Make Love, Not War
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Better aim between the eyes... I hear they charge when they're wounded.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Any rodent around the house or in the garden up here is
fair game. Gray squirrels are considered a game animal
here in Maine, and have a season in the fall. Most folks
who have trouble with the varmints seem to ignore that little
regulation.
A 22 cal RWS 48 air rifle works well on chipmunks and
squirrels and such. I haven't tried it on a woodchuck yet.
I once hit a red squirrel with a 35 Remington. He didn't
suffer......
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fair game. Gray squirrels are considered a game animal
here in Maine, and have a season in the fall. Most folks
who have trouble with the varmints seem to ignore that little
regulation.
A 22 cal RWS 48 air rifle works well on chipmunks and
squirrels and such. I haven't tried it on a woodchuck yet.
I once hit a red squirrel with a 35 Remington. He didn't
suffer......
-Stretch
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
J-B Weld fixed that, right?The tail was found about five feet from the impact zone.UncleBuck wrote:But a 44 mag? Was there anything left of em?
Unfortunately, it was right in front of a wheelbarrow, and the bullet also made a large hole in that...
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
That's funny, Griff.Griff wrote:J-B Weld fixed that, right?The tail was found about five feet from the impact zone.UncleBuck wrote:But a 44 mag? Was there anything left of em?
Unfortunately, it was right in front of a wheelbarrow, and the bullet also made a large hole in that...
Rodents around here are on notice, any of them, that if I see'em they're dead soon after. Wire chewing and constantly trying to get in the house. Won't stand for it anymore and that includes cottontails.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Cottontails were hard on the garden last year.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
msmith1228 wrote:Over the years, I have shot several with a 220 Swift. I never find any pieces.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Chipmunks, like all other rodents, usually do some kind of damage to people's abodes or property.
I wonder what being hit by a .44 Magnum, if you are the size of a chipmunk, translates into for a human-sized target? A howitzer?
I wonder what being hit by a .44 Magnum, if you are the size of a chipmunk, translates into for a human-sized target? A howitzer?
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
You guys are right about 'overkill' with the .44 Magnum; I think a .22 LR is really the proper thing for garden pests.
Really.
Just a .22 LR is all I want.
Maybe a Ruger.
Probably one of them 10/22s would be best.
Or a couple....
I figure one of THESE poking out an upstairs window looking over the garden would be ideal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... C5asiIqmvs
http://www.tacticalinc.com/gatling-gun-kit-p-571.html
Really.
Just a .22 LR is all I want.
Maybe a Ruger.
Probably one of them 10/22s would be best.
Or a couple....
I figure one of THESE poking out an upstairs window looking over the garden would be ideal...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... C5asiIqmvs
http://www.tacticalinc.com/gatling-gun-kit-p-571.html
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
I wonder how accurate that Gatling gun kit is.
Just the thing to mount on a motorbike sidecar in traffic.
I bet folks wouldn't crowd ya.
Chucks wouldn't like it, either.
And it ain't really that expensive......
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Just the thing to mount on a motorbike sidecar in traffic.
I bet folks wouldn't crowd ya.
Chucks wouldn't like it, either.
And it ain't really that expensive......
-Stretch
Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
AJMD429 wrote:msmith1228 wrote:Over the years, I have shot several with a 220 Swift. I never find any pieces.
Mack
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
Sounds like a project for Pitchy...!!!!!stretch wrote:Just the thing to mount on a motorbike sidecar in traffic.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
I got one of them today - appx 4oz - so if I figured it right, a 240gr pill is about 1/7 of its weight.Ysabel Kid wrote: I wonder what being hit by a .44 Magnum, if you are the size of a chipmunk, translates into for a human-sized target? A howitzer?
I weigh 175lb - so 1/7 would equal 25 pounds
This is a 25 pounder
...and I don't think he even knows it...Walks around with a half-assed grin...If he feels fear, he don't show it. Just rides into hell and back again.
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Re: Chipmunk season has just started.
The problem with hunting chippers is that it takes a at least 6 to make a decent sandwich!
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