When I lived in Baltimore I was walking downtown past 'The Block' and saw a guy walking on the other side of the street carrying a shotgun slung over his shoulder - he got 'picked up' real fast too!!!
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Snook
Still Learning
S4L, I used to go chuck hunting in Copake NY, in my more violent years after the military
. That farm, dairy, had ALLOT of woodchucks. Farmer lost prized bull in chuck hole, broken leg incident.. we became good friends and one day he said to me "why don't you shoot the pigeons? I know you can hit them." They were in his silo nesting bringing shit back into his winter feed on there feet from the cow shit they pecked from undigested seeds . from the nesting sites, it would mold or go rancid at the top (where the pigeons nested most) in the top, middle down, in the feed. I only shot 1, forget what came up, probably divorce I think.. famer connection was an inlaw contact.. but just happenstance . it exploded like a giant white dandelion. I think that was the last thing I ever shot.. drugs and alcohol took over.. now i'm off the drugs, only cannabis and alcohol.
Where was I going with this???? OH yeah, crows not pigeons inda country
Where was I going with this???? OH yeah, crows not pigeons inda country
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another way to kill a chicken is to place the head under the ball of your foot and grab the bird's legs and pull upwards, with a twist if you like.
but let's face it, every remembers the first time they saw a chicken getting their head cut off and it ran headless around the yard...lol
but let's face it, every remembers the first time they saw a chicken getting their head cut off and it ran headless around the yard...lol
I did my early woodchuckin' in the Roscoe NY area Snook, @ first with my factory order of a Ruger #1 falling block action, in stainless steel and w/a bull barrel, .25-06 caliber. A tack driver for sure but being a single shot it lost its field appeal, at the range the single fire was perfect.
Next I moved into a Remington model 700bdl standard blued finish, bull barrel, Unertl straight 20X scope (no clik adjustments ~ open one screw, tighten the opposite one ~ once dialed in
)with spring (shock absorbing) enhanced rings, the exact setup is below, this gun had a bipod rest & was chambered in .22-250, easy pickin's on chucks out to 375-400 yards. I bought this gun complete but used in '79 for $450. 
The scope/rings setup alone was $600 in '79, it was a no brainer for me. btw, I worked 6 or 7 days a week to buy my toys, when I had time to play I liked to do it in style.......
When I lived in Baltimore I was walking downtown past 'The Block' and saw a guy walking on the other side of the street carrying a shotgun slung over his shoulder - he got 'picked up' real fast too!!!
that was Omar ... i was a recurring extra (in the news room) on the 5th season of The Wire - interesting experience.
being in the country is when all the windows in the house look out on the river, with the ass end of the house mooning the dirt road.
Snook
Still Learning
I did my early woodchuckin' in the Roscoe NY area Snook, @ first with my factory order of a Ruger #1 falling block action, in stainless steel and w/a bull barrel, .25-06 caliber. A tack driver for sure but being a single shot it lost its field appeal, at the range the single fire was perfect.
Next I moved into a Remington model 700bdl standard blued finish, bull barrel, Unertl straight 20X scope (no clik adjustments ~ open one screw, tighten the opposite one ~ once dialed in
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The scope/rings setup alone was $600 in '79, it was a no brainer for me. btw, I worked 6 or 7 days a week to buy my toys, when I had time to play I liked to do it in style.......
Unertl, I never got around to that level of scope but remember want one.. 700bdl/bull barrel/6mm... leupold straight 12x.. 1/4"@100yds all day long... modified to single shot, didn't use many follow up shots..
I drove almost 2 hours to get to Copake... and yes, I've been at the Roscoe Dinner many times.. dono if it is still there haven't been to that area in 30+ years..
never had a dedicated chuck rifle, just used my deer rifles on them. made deer hunting simpler. 30-06 is ruff on chucks, lol. trying to get coins to build a dual-purpose rifle. want a Ruger action/stock and a bull-barrel chambered for the old 250-3000 Savage cartridge. big enough for deer, flat shooting enough for crows, chucks, & yotes. and virtually NO recoil...
Snook
Still Learning
S4Ls 25-06 is a similar round but on a long action bolt gun, pretty sure the 250-300 is built on the short action bolt guns.. bot good, 25-06 readily available over th counter, not too many 250-3000 available commercially.. BTW, the 6mm is ruff on chucks toonever had a dedicated chuck rifle, just used my deer rifles on them. made deer hunting simpler. 30-06 is ruff on chucks, lol. trying to get coins to build a dual-purpose rifle. want a Ruger action/stock and a bull-barrel chambered for the old 250-3000 Savage cartridge. big enough for deer, flat shooting enough for crows, chucks, & yotes. and virtually NO recoil...
although the 30cal is ruff on them too but they can be only so dead.. I would hunt deer with a compound bow.. Ahh the good ole days..EDIT: I did own one of the first Ruger No1s, again in 6mm-BB. It didn't shoot as well as the Remington and was heavy as hell and from the prone position used for all shots from 200yds to 600yds, it was a PITA to cycle the lever down to open the breach, had to turn gun sideways some, loosing sigh picture if there was a second shot available.. mostly on those 500 and 600 yd shots..
St. Phatty
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First they chew the paper to make the nest, and then ....
Well, you know what comes next!!!
Well, you know what comes next!!!
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Robrites
That trap is too big for a mouse.
or eating the insulation off of your wiring. ever had a fire under your dash while driving down the road? exciting does not BEGIN to describe it...
I bought my wife a Game Cam for Valentines Day..
I bought my wife a Game Cam for Valentines Day..
Something was eating her Citrus fruits - rats caught on Rat Cam (setting rat traps)
Something was eating her Flowers - rabbits caught on Rabbit Cam
Moving it up the hill.
looking for skunks, possums, raccoons or coyotes
The dog has been Skunked a few times and killed skunks and possums, I want to see where they are coming from
I bought my wife a Game Cam for Valentines Day..
Something was eating her Citrus fruits - rats caught on Rat Cam (setting rat traps)
Something was eating her Flowers - rabbits caught on Rabbit Cam
Moving it up the hill.
looking for skunks, possums, raccoons or coyotesThe dog has been Skunked a few times and killed skunks and possums, I want to see where they are coming from
St. Phatty
Active member
if I could only rent a corn snake for a week.
mice are easy, not so smart
peanut butter works, but the best?
plain, simple bread, roll up a small dough ball
mice love bread, kind of KISS like
hell yeah it's still there, went there in '09 anyway, world famous Roscoe Diner. They used to carry a menu item called the WOW, it was a big plate of breakfast food, we'd all order the WOW w/extra sides of stuff. that's a great diner.
another excellent diner, and again we'd visit it while hunting, but here on trips to the Adirondack's, the West Taghkanic Diner (Ancram NY), we'd stop there on our way to Queechy Lake where we'd stay @ Ron's summer cabin. Of course Taghkanic is an early Native American word, and where the Taconic Parkway got its name, the diner is less than 1/2 mile off the parkway.......
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St. Phatty
Active member
There's a bunch of month old food in the cage -
I thought that the rodents would like that.
Part of the situation is my tendency to respect the little critters,
and to want to use the live capture cage.
I have one mouse trap that does not work.
I have the highly effective comic book kind that kills the mouse usually very quickly.
I think the mice are heavy enough to trip the thing.
But to make it work I have to cover the inside with smaller mesh size.
Of course if one of them dies in the dashboard
my tone may change quite dramatically
If I see a mouse out in my field or the woods, I too, believe in "Live and let live".... I have no problem with the mice out there...
But as soon as they start causing the kind of damage to your house or your truck that ends up costing you thousands of $$ to repair,
you're gonna lose your respect for the little critters pretty darn fast..
You really should get some of what you call "comic book traps" very soon or your truck is gonna be trashed...
But as soon as they start causing the kind of damage to your house or your truck that ends up costing you thousands of $$ to repair,
you're gonna lose your respect for the little critters pretty darn fast..
You really should get some of what you call "comic book traps" very soon or your truck is gonna be trashed...
