My lil Cricket just ate another masked bandit!
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Thanks Leon, this one missed dinner at 1800 hours and showed up at 1900 hours for left-overs ending up with a migraine head-ache (aneurism), it didn't suffer!
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@iAmzehTOASTY:
It wasn't far only 20 or so yards, it was stealing my pecans and what gave it away was the pecans raining down on my roof. I hit this one right between its eye and the ear, it was over almost as soon as it hit the ground!
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Excellent shot! And your Cricket are definitely putting a hurting on them bandits! Nice pic.
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Bats are #1 carrier of rabies in the US by a large margin, around 70% of people infected are by bats. Racoons are number 2 and account for most of the rest of human infection, followed by skunks, foxes and coyotes. The last 3 combined are less than 2% of human infection. Saliva from a racoons hide can get in the smallest break in your skin, a full day after said raccoon is dead. Any that get in sight of my home are killed post haste 24/7, I leave them be if they stay in the woods. I wear good very thick rubber gloves when disposing of them, along with the gloves. Not worth taking a chance touching one, no matter how small the chance may be, and the chance is very small. But given that once the rabies virus actually takes hold, I forget how long but it is over a week, it is 99+% fatal I won't take the chance.
By the looks and placement of the coon, I'm guessing you touched it, and it looks like it's touching your rifle too. You would never catch me doing that, don't care if the odds are 1 in ten million or higher, death is the winning lotto number.
By the looks and placement of the coon, I'm guessing you touched it, and it looks like it's touching your rifle too. You would never catch me doing that, don't care if the odds are 1 in ten million or higher, death is the winning lotto number.
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I hate raccoons. They are ugly, messy, smelly, disease-ridden, and their fur is greasy and disgusting.
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Thanks Ranchibi:
It's 1 of 3 pcps that I've set up for night sniping, I'm hopeful that I'll be able to put my Daystate Renegade in .25 to use in the very near future!
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Thanks karl_h:
Thank you so very much for your informative post and that's great information that you're paying forward. Shot placement is one of my main concerns because I prefer not to see any animal suffer because if my negligence. I'm always wearing thick gloves when I handle them but I'll start wearing rubber gloves as well. My Cricket was sitting behind the coon and the sling was right behind its back, I'll have to be more careful from this point on making sure that nothing that I'm using comes in contact with their hide! Thanks again!
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One-Man_Riot:
This one appeared to be a little skimpy but the other ones that I've killed appeared to be a little healthier
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Airgun Capital:
Thanks but I've have never checked to see how fast it's shooting, that's on my to-do-list!
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