Author Topic: some unwanted house guests (Read 8290 times)

barry42001 · « **on:** February 17, 2014, 10:07:01 pm »

Yep 3 in 24 hours, hopefully not too many more

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LazyBkpr · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2014, 10:54:50 pm »

Blah! Those things drive me nutz!
BRAND new house and they have already chewed their way into the garage and walls. I have poison chunks spread everywhere. :(

barry42001 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2014, 11:23:39 pm »

Mouse traps and peanut butter, the universal bait lol

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G3farms · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2014, 11:54:13 pm »

My Dad showed me a fun trick when I was little. Take a 22 LR and remove the lead bullet, pour out about 1/2 of the powder, push the open end of the brass into a bar of soap making a compressed wad cutter bullet out of soap. Can shoot inside of the house with out doing damage. Will stun/kill a rat from across the room.

That is where I came up with my YouTube name "soapy22bullet"

barry42001 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 18, 2014, 12:06:40 am »

Don't have a .22, wonder how that would work with a .44 mag

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G3farms · « **Reply #5 on:** February 18, 2014, 12:21:21 am »

Give it a try with just the primer only. Large pistol primers pack a punch themselves.

barry42001 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 18, 2014, 12:30:05 am »

Might try it, lol might melt the soap into napalm

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Zulu · « **Reply #7 on:** February 18, 2014, 07:41:23 am »

Burning rat under the couch might not be a good idea :-)

Bakersdozen · « **Reply #8 on:** February 18, 2014, 08:15:45 am »

Are those rats or mice?
Do we have a smiley face emoticon for skin crawling?

LazyBkpr · « **Reply #9 on:** February 18, 2014, 08:59:43 am »

LOL BakersDozen

I didnt use soap, but soap may be the better choice.. I used wax because it was slightly soft. A large rifle primer in a 44 Mag case, and decent slug of wax. My wife had a .357 Mag, usues small pistol primers, so I bought mag primers.. There was more than one call to the police when passers by saw us running around through the trees with guns shooting at each other..

I alwyas kept a few boxes of 410 shells with light loads of black powder and RICE to kill pigeons and rats inside of barns on my shelf. I had three Maine farmers that loved those things, though I suspect they might have occasionally been put to use running kids out of the watermelon patch.

A paintball gun works well too. If your going to try it make sure to get one with a rifled barrel to make it more accurate.

True story;

When the kids were twelve they wanted paintball guns bad... SO the wife and I took them to an outside paintball arena. WITH about twenty of their friends... We each picked about ten kids for OUR teams, rented all the equipment.. the guy running the course handed me his personal paintball gun. It was a custom made thing JUST for competition.. I was impressed, being a gunsmith.. The FIRST paintball I ever fired in my life was a hail marry.. I actually didnt think i would hit anything.. Wifes team was coming down the road Like Earlu English troops.. side by side in a big group.. so I figured I might get one of them. Her nephew was in the lead.. I aimed, raised the cross hairs Up a little, allowed for wind and let er rip.. the paintball smacked the wifes nephew squarely in the mask and flattened him... Of course, everyone scattered and paintballs went everywhere.. I had my team well spread out and well hidden behind trees and brush piles provided for that purpose..
We were annihilating them!! But I didn't see my wife anywhere!!! Suddenly, one of the kids on my team stood up behind me, and said.. IM OUT! he had paint on his SIDE... I looked in the direction it had to come from, but couldn't see her.. I saw my daughter crouched behind her barrier, so I jumped up and took off running... Paintballs were splattering all around me as I ran.. As I neared my daughters bunker, I jumped a brush pile.. As I came over the top in mid air...
yep, there she is, I see my wife, standing behind a tree, about f feet from where my daughter is hidden..
Three paintballs hit me squarely in the chest at a range of five feet... I landed in the leaves on my back, and slid to a stop at her feet... trying to BREATH... My wife grins through her mask... pointing the paintball gun at me, her finger twitching like mad "Oh I have dreamed of doing that!"
My daughter sees this.. She stands up, lifts her gun.. points it at the sky and says.. Oh hades no, I am OUT!" and turns to walk away... Wife shoots her twice, squarely in the behind.. One shot, perfectly centered in each cheek, leaving a bruise the size of a baseball on each cheek... TRUE STORY!
So, Stick with wax. DON'T give a grown woman anything that has the ability to inflict PAIN.

Edward · « **Reply #10 on:** February 18, 2014, 09:29:17 am »

G3farms · « **Reply #11 on:** February 18, 2014, 08:32:15 pm »

When younger and exposed to the turkey shoot and how it was won (pellet closest to the center) I just knew I could better my chances by sneaking in some of my reloads rather than the shells that were handed out. I did know for sure that the sound of the shot had to be reasonably close to the sound of the factory loads. The reloading and experimenting began. First was putting tape around the wad, thinking it would hold the shot together longer down range, the full choke kept tearing it apart. Next big idea was melting vaseline and pouring into the shot just before crimping, worked fair. Now Vaseline and a taped wad, works just a tad better. Well now I was getting someplace, hhhhhmmmmmm what about melting some beeswax and pouring over the shot. Well the wax proved to be a bit much, shot a nice round hole through a 2 x 4 from about 30 feet away.

G3farms · « **Reply #12 on:** February 18, 2014, 08:38:41 pm »

I still have some 38 special plastic cases and plastic bullets, uses only pistol primers. It sure does pack a wallup!

barry42001 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 18, 2014, 08:59:42 pm »

are those pistol primers you're talking about the larger the small ones, my .44 takes the large ones.

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barry42001 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 19, 2014, 11:46:46 am »

for your shotgun shells, if you take a knife and deeply score the casing right at about height of the brass when you pull the trigger only the brass will be left behind everything else will go down range in one big piece. did some experimenting on my own lol

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LazyBkpr · « **Reply #15 on:** February 19, 2014, 04:55:25 pm »

You guys with your tape and scoring the case are going to split your barrel tip if your using a choke. It WILL happen. I replaced more than a few barrels when I ran my own gunshop.. I cant say I never did anything silly, but learning the hard way was painful even if it mellowed me out a bit.

Barbarian · « **Reply #16 on:** February 19, 2014, 06:07:12 pm »

This thread is reminding me of a cartoon.

Wiley Coyote using an Acme Super Cannon to try to stop Road Runner.

The pest in question looks like a young male mouse.

iddee · « **Reply #17 on:** February 19, 2014, 06:28:13 pm »

Why, Barbarian, don't tell me. You mean you don't use a 12 gauge shotgun with slugs and an extra measure of powder for mice? How on earth do you expect to get them. Man has been trying to kill them with everything else for thousands of years, and they are still here. They are tough little buggers.

barry42001 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 19, 2014, 09:15:36 pm »

lol use only modified choke

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barry42001 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 20, 2014, 04:59:26 pm »

Quote from: LazyBkpr on February 19, 2014, 04:55:25 pm

You guys with your tape and scoring the case are going to split your barrel tip if your using a choke. It WILL happen. I replaced more than a few barrels when I ran my own gunshop.. I cant say I never did anything silly, but learning the hard way was painful even if it mellowed me out a bit.

Btw I was a registered gunsmith, w/ FFL in upstate New York everybody expected I would give my services away and heavily discounted any rifle because they were a friend. finale FFL's are so expensive I just said the hades with it.

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