If one keep theirs on for a day it was a good day.

You obviously didn't use the right rivets/bolts .

 

Okay? If you haven't been reading the thread its cat food put out for the cats. I'm not bating wild animals on purpose...

That is like saying,
"I'm not running over kids on purpose, they just keep running towards me when I drive my music-playing ice cream truck home from the bar - it's hard to see them when I'm black-out drunk.

 

So you must be one of the liberal snowflakes.
No self respecting, dog-eat-dog, right wing-nut, would do that.

Maybe! Especially when it comes to cute furry mammals.
But really it was just about convenience. The trap required less time since I didn't have to sit and watch for the offenders (which probably wouldn't have been too hard). My neighbors are close enough that there could have been problems with gunfire. Once trapped, hauling the bandit across town and across a bridge was a chore but seemed easier than shooting a caged animal and then dealing with the bloody corpse. And as @#12 points out, I don't wish dead an animal that isn't a problem for me. If I have a way to solve my problem without killing it, I'll choose that.

 

If I have a way to solve my problem without killing it, I'll choose that.

@crutschow, it seems like wayneh is turning a corner. He may soon be talking about rainbows and Unicorns.

 

Just blue skying. Raccoons are prehensile animals. They use their hands for eating. Cats don't.

So, a pair of pressure sensitive pads (front and back) are placed at the food. Then, the difference in pressure between the two pads can be used to differentiate between cat/raccoon.

 

@crutschow, it seems like wayneh is turning a corner. He may soon be talking about rainbows and Unicorns.

Teeheehee. I don't know what corner that is. I don't think I've ever been particularly bloodthirsty.

 

I never thought about it, but trapping I suggested isn't as good when you consider trapping a Skunk. God forbid you have one in the trap and pay good money for it only to toss it in the metal bin.

kv

Edit: Worse yet it's on the porch and shoot it. Thus releasing all it's yuck all over your front door.

Edit:Edit: Glad it's not my problem.

 

I get a skunk through here maybe once every 2 - 3 years. With them I try and chase them out away from the yard before shooting them.

However the interesting thing with skunks is they consider spraying a last resort so if you don't get them cornered but just follow them slowly you can get within 10 feet of them in an open yard. After that just make sure you don't miss on the headshot.

 

I get a skunk through here maybe once every 2 - 3 years. With them I try and chase them out away from the yard before shooting them.

However the interesting thing with skunks is they consider spraying a last resort so if you don't get them cornered but just follow them slowly you can get within 10 feet of them in an open yard. After that just make sure you don't miss on the headshot.

I'm reconsidering asking for my Dads Browning semi-auto .22 and his Browning over and under 20 gauge. The other High Power Rifles wouldn't be of any use, my Brother and sons still hunt on horse back.

kv

 

collars with dingle bells

I have seen video of a cat with bells on...catching a bird.
They are that agile.
I don't like stray cats killing the squirrels and birds because the squirrels and birds don't hurt me.
I actually think they are kind of cute in a Walt Disney sort of way.
"Rats with bushy tails"? I don't think so. Rats try to come in my house, squirrels don't.
Picking up the corpses is distasteful. Death of, "wasn't hurtin' nobody".
So now I don't have squirrels living in the back yard.
I don't know why Cat Headquarters is no longer under my car.
Maybe because they killed all the squirrels.
Maybe a virus ran through the herd of cats. (There were about ten of them last summer.)
Maybe that's a good thing.
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

ps, Most of the "likes" I clicked weren't because I agree with the poster but because the post was so wrong that it was funny.

 

just make sure you don't miss on the headshot.

Not a problem.
My rifle is 1.5 inches high at close range, 6 inches low at 100 yards, 16 inches low at 200 yards, useless at 300 yards.
I wouldn't be shooting anything that's alive if it's far enough that I'd have to aim high.

 

That is like saying,
"I'm not running over kids on purpose, they just keep running towards me when I drive my music-playing ice cream truck home from the bar - it's hard to see them when I'm black-out drunk.

Ah, so that's how gophers explain their side of the story when their idiot relatives run out into traffic and get squashed.

'It's the driver's fault for 'luring them out there' and being 'to drunk' to avoid them. Not that they were too dumb to know better and stay out of traffic like the more intelligent creatures tend to not have a problem doing. '

 

Not a problem.
My rifle is 1.5 inches high at close range, 6 inches low at 100 yards, 16 inches low at 200 yards, useless at 300 yards.
I wouldn't be shooting anything that's alive if it's far enough that I'd have to aim high.

What caliber is that? My first guess would be .22 LR.

When zeroed for 100 yd (91 m), the arc-trajectory of the standard high-velocity .22 LR with a 40-gr bullet has a 2.7-inch (69 mm) rise at 50 yd (46 m), and a 10.8-inch (27 cm) drop at 150 yd (140 m).[8] A .22 LR rifle needs to be zeroed for 75 yd (69 m) to avoid overshooting small animals like squirrels at intermediate distances.[8]

kv

Edit: Once it gets out there at or around 250 - 300 yards it's only going around 546 fps depending on the grain suggested 40-gr, even at 400 yards 500 fps.

 

I'm reconsidering asking for my Dads Browning semi-auto .22 and his Browning over and under 20 gauge. The other High Power Rifles wouldn't be of any use, my Brother and sons still hunt on horse back.

kv

Yep. Years ago two buddies of mine who figured bigger was better with skunks went and proved that concept wrong.

One tried to clear one out from under his pickup with a 12 ga shotgun with a 3 1/2" magnum slug shot no less. Sure he killed it but he also blew it to bits, stink glands and all, under his pickup to the point the pickup smelled like dead animal and skunk spray for most of a year afterwards. Two runs through the car wash didn't really help much.

The other one went after one with his dad's old 3030 in his parents yard when I was in college. Dead on front to back shot and of course blew the whole back end of the skunk out doing it so their yard stunk for weeks afterwards plus damn near shot their dog who was some distance behind it.

15 - 20+ years later we still have a laugh about those experiences.

If I cant do it with a 22 on close range head shot I leave them be.

 

What caliber is that? My first guess would be .22 LR. kv

Yep.
I pretty much knew I gave it away when I recited the ballistics.

 

Yep.
I pretty much knew I gave it away when I recited the ballistics.

Still a very effective rifle / 20 gauge shotguns are under estimated as well. Which is why I want my fathers guns, you can always use a good plinker and a decent skeet gun. The .22 would be to teach my Grandchildren or just a hand me down. The over and under have alway been a favorite of mine.

 

Still a very effective rifle

I rarely shoot anything more dangerous than empty beer cans...and somebody else emptied them...except once when I had to finish a dog that got a broken back by chasing cars. It was a Darwin Award for a dog so stupid that he caught the car.

 

I have yet to get a jump on them this time to get any clear shots off with the 22.

Well... Apart from anything else, I suggest 'the right tools for the job' to wit: a .30-06 or (my fave for potentially dangerous large-ish varmints) a magnum (i.e. 1 oz) 12 gauge sabot slug through a rifled barrel -- 90 lbs of injury-enraged animal savagery is a hazard best avoided!

As regards 'detection' - I suggest a 'WIFI' camera featuring IR illumination and silent 'pan and scan' functionality -- My $0.02

Best regards and good hunting!
HP

 

Ah, so that's how gophers explain their side of the story when their idiot relatives run out into traffic and get squashed.

'It's the driver's fault for 'luring them out there' and being 'to drunk' to avoid them. Not that they were too dumb to know better and stay out of traffic like the more intelligent creatures tend to not have a problem doing. '

yet the Gopher is not creating threads to whine about racoons eating the Racoon bait he is putting outside.

 

Just a passing thought...I don't need a hog detector.
Two nights ago I arrived home to find at least 300 pounds of hog in the neighbor's back yard.
I phoned him and he sent his beagle to herd the hog back home.
The concern I felt was about what to do if I found the hog rooting for grubs in my sod.
This seems absurd because I live in the middle of a metropolitan area of 3.5 million people. I thought for sure it would be unlawful to raise hogs in a back yard.

Personally, I believe a 300 pound hog would win a fight against me and anything that doesn't go, "bang".
I also expect it's unlawful to put a bullet between it's eyes.
I also expect it's very dangerous to call the police to fix my problems for me.
I guess I'm fishing for a contingency plan.
Whaddaya do when a 300 pound hog is rooting up your lawn in the middle of a rather large city?