Ever Shot a Pest Inside Your Home?

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During a rash of mice in the house I had set out a group of spring traps. Wife wakes me up in the middle of the night - sounds like the ghost of Christmas past is dancing the Rumba in one of our under-eave crawlspaces. Turns out a trap had caught the poor bugger by the leg and he couldn't get through a knothole that he clearly thought was his passage to safety. I grabbed my then-new Disco and it took ~3 (I don't recall exactly) shots to connect due to close proximity and having to guesstimate holdover... Fortunately the house, built around 1940 and sheathed with 1" tongue in groove, easily absorbed the .22 pellets with no ill effect.

GsT
 
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Used my ZM Anshutz 2002FT to dispatch mice and cockroaches when staying over at a relatives house. It was awful having mice and cockroaches in their kitchen.

177 cal 18fpe is too much for 10 yard indoor shooting shoulda used my daisy 747 pistol 360fps instead. Dug trenches in the vinyl tile flooring like KAL-EL's spaceship plowing through a Smallville farm.

Cockroaches disintegrate when shot with an 18fpe 177. Sounds like a party pop snap when they blow up. 
 
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Used my ZM Anshutz 2002FT to dispatch mice and cockroaches when staying over at a relatives house. It was awful having mice and cockroaches in their kitchen.

177 cal 18fpe is too much for 10 yard indoor shooting shoulda used my daisy 747 pistol 360fps instead. Dug trenches in the vinyl tile flooring like KAL-EL's spaceship plowing through a Smallville farm.

Cockroaches disintegrate when shot with an 18fpe 177. Sounds like a party pop snap when they blow up.
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@Odoyle Ummmmmm I have questions my friend. Were you invited over for this purpose? If not, were your relatives the least bit concerned that you were shooting pests and their floor up with an airgun? Was it something y’all discussed before you started letting off?
 
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During a rash of mice in the house I had set out a group of spring traps. Wife wakes me up in the middle of the night - sounds like the ghost of Christmas past is dancing the Rumba in one of our under-eave crawlspaces.  Turns out a trap had caught the poor bugger by the leg and he couldn't get through a knothole that he clearly thought was his passage to safety. I grabbed my then-new Disco and it took ~3 (I don't recall exactly) shots to connect due to close proximity and having to guesstimate holdover... Fortunately the house, built around 1940 and sheathed with 1" tongue in groove, easily absorbed the .22 pellets with no ill effect.

GsT
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😅 Now thats painting a picture. Sounds like sent the thing through a gamut of traps like something out of the “Saw” movie franchise. Then you shot it to hell. How long did it take y’all to get them under control? 
 
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Used my ZM Anshutz 2002FT to dispatch mice and cockroaches when staying over at a relatives house. It was awful having mice and cockroaches in their kitchen.

177 cal 18fpe is too much for 10 yard indoor shooting shoulda used my daisy 747 pistol 360fps instead. Dug trenches in the vinyl tile flooring like KAL-EL's spaceship plowing through a Smallville farm.

Cockroaches disintegrate when shot with an 18fpe 177. Sounds like a party pop snap when they blow up.
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@Odoyle Ummmmmm I have questions my friend. Were you invited over for this purpose? If not, were your relatives the least bit concerned that you were shooting pests and their floor up with an airgun? Was it something y’all discussed before you started letting off?
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Yup and the trench pellet skid path is under the dining table that I patched edging off another piece of vinyl tile tucked under the stove. Blended right in with the rest of the cracked floor tiles. Was even commended for taking care of that pesky mouse.

If I werent an airgunner I woulda used bait traps.

Normally anti gun household but I said I'm brimgimg my tiny caliber 177 target pellet gun to take care of the mouse. Bonus rat outside was fed a 10.5gr Brown Box DIE2 Crosman Premier too.
 
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During a rash of mice in the house I had set out a group of spring traps. Wife wakes me up in the middle of the night - sounds like the ghost of Christmas past is dancing the Rumba in one of our under-eave crawlspaces.  Turns out a trap had caught the poor bugger by the leg and he couldn't get through a knothole that he clearly thought was his passage to safety. I grabbed my then-new Disco and it took ~3 (I don't recall exactly) shots to connect due to close proximity and having to guesstimate holdover... Fortunately the house, built around 1940 and sheathed with 1" tongue in groove, easily absorbed the .22 pellets with no ill effect.

GsT
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Now thats painting a picture. Sounds like sent the thing through a gamut of traps like something out of the “Saw” movie franchise. Then you shot it to hell. How long did it take y’all to get them under control?
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Not sure I ever really did. I kept them at bay - it seemed to work best if I put out a lot of traps all at once. That would catch several a day for a couple or three days, then they seemed to get wary. So take the traps away for a week or two and repeat if you see further evidence. Unfortunately pellet rifles weren't really an aid except in that one instance.

GsT
 
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YES .... Just last year our "House" cat that goes outside cautiously got lucky and caught a RAT and brought it into the house to play with.

As I keyed up on the event the rat got away and ran down the hall into a spare bedroom going under the Hide-a-bed.

Looking under the bad where the folded up mattress rests against the floor was said rat all wedged in to decreasing gap present.

poop !! how the hell am i going to get him ? .... Grabbed my .25 cal PP700 pistol, a flashlight & a opened up coat hanger.



POP .. snag & drag before it bled all over the floor !!!



BAD kitty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 
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I admit it.

I am guilty of shooting a cute little bird in its natural environment.

And I am a repeat offender. 😟 







As their name indicates, the natural environment of House Sparrows is the house — in this case my house. They just fly in through the open doors and windows.

When they enter, I go and get the still-not-sold Benjamin Trail pistol (5FPE). The .177 Sniper Mediums administered at 525fpe are quite sufficient to cure the HOSP patients.

One on the kitchen sink. One on the stairs. One on the side molding in the office.



I just have to chase them through the house until they sit on a spot that gives me a good shotline with a backstop that can absorb 5FPE without getting me into trouble with my wife. 😄



Matthias




 
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I shot a rat with an ooooooold daisy lever action, something pre-red Ryder, at my cousins house. I was there helping them move and I thought it was perfectly logical decision to shoot it. Not extreme at all. It squealed (not a squeak this mother squealed) and ran off.

When I was a little boy my stepdad shot one in a glue trap with a .38 snub nose. Probably was a load of shot but I don’t remember details on that. Just I thought it was pretty savage.

Few years down the road my mom (now divorced) would not let me shoot the raccoons. We had a whole family move into the attick and at times there would be 4-5 raccoons in my kitchen at night eating cat food. We adopted a friends great pyrranese when he moved and I never saw another raccoon or anything else around mom’s place.
 
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I shot a rat with an ooooooold daisy lever action, something pre-red Ryder, at my cousins house. I was there helping them move and I thought it was perfectly logical decision to shoot it. Not extreme at all. It squealed (not a squeak this mother squealed) and ran off.

When I was a little boy my stepdad shot one in a glue trap with a .38 snub nose. Probably was a load of shot but I don’t remember details on that. Just I thought it was pretty savage.

Few years down the road my mom (now divorced) would not let me shoot the raccoons. We had a whole family move into the attick and at times there would be 4-5 raccoons in my kitchen at night eating cat food. We adopted a friends great pyrranese when he moved and I never saw another raccoon or anything else around mom’s place.
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@BryanH Wait, wait, wait. He did what? What happened? Was he drunk? Did the rat get into his favorite food? poop in his shoes? Chew threw a piece of pvc pipe and cause water damage? What? I’m mean damn, it was already in the glue trap. That’s hilllllllarious!!😅😂
 
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