I just moved to my new place a month ago and getting the birds to come to the feeders, now the limb rats have found them and the fun is on.... I dont want to shoot them but in sted have fun with them buggers, whats your thoughts ??? I knew to ask you guys as you are in the right frame of mind for this...

Benjamin,Beeman and Sheridan, attorneys at lawlessness! derf

i suggest you get to AIRGUN EXPRESS and order yourself a good 900 fps or more BEEMAN or RWS from them......... check the demos and closeouts for bargains.......... i've been shooting tree rats off my feeders with a rws mod 34 and crossman premier heavies..... AGE can set ya up!!

oh by the way... mind your back stop when shooting your magnum airgun.....my rws will put a premier clear through a bird feeder........


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I had a problem with that type of rats, I built a HD bird feeder out of 14ga steel with a 1/4 in Lexan front I could then use 22 bird shot loads on them and the annoying large blue birds also. No back stop problems that way.

I just kill 'em. Eat 'em or feed 'em to the gators depending on season and enthusiasm level.

For fun try building a corn cob squill mill. 2x4 in the ground, 2 1x2s to make a cross with drywall screws on the end so you can A) put dried corn on the cob on the screws, B) put yourself on the screws if you're not careful. Put the cross pieces on a 1/4" through bolt so it can turn freely. As soon as they figure out that corn is good they will get some flying practice. After awhile they'll figure it out. Birds like the scraps since squill only eat the germ out of the corn.

After they figure it out, build an inner tube powered CATapult with a scrap of 1/4" ply as a launch platform. String release with corn on the platform, grab a beer and the video cam. A bigger version with tuna as bait will work on crats too. Have fun!

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.RockyTheFlying.Squill

short,

I did see a video one time of a guy that put some feed on a clay target thrower and a long pull cord. turned em into flying tree rats.

Dan,

you might try that and see what kind of fielding talent Al and Bob have. I hear the yankees are looking for all the help they can get.

Yeah like I said I dont want to kill them as I want to have fun with the little bas-turds. I need to get me an electric fience kit and see what I can come up with...

Did I hear your right? You just want to play with them? Get a paintball gun and fill the balls with liquid laxative, hot peppers, ammonia, fish oil, etc. Clamp a spin-cast reel to the barrel and improvise a harpoon and connect it to the fishing line. Run 440v to the last place the cat touches. Put your dog house under the bird feeder. Put a large sharp trebble hook up there and tie it to your bass rod. Scream "Get a net, I've got one on" whenever you set the hook. Should be a good fight. There's got to be a way to have fun with this.

Squill spear hunting safaris! Bet you don't connect.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.SpearChuckinInThe.Trees

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I just like shooting them with the old .32 round ball gun. MMMMMMM Good! squirrel scampi with a light butter/garlic sauce and scallions on rice. Darn near as good as mongolian cat with black bean sauce and vegetable. Tiger beer with either.

I am not sure how you would reduce the voltage but rustys shok shtick

All right now, fun is fun but how in the hell do you disguise crat tenderloin to look like a "mud-bug"! derf

Beer, Derfie. Beer!

The most fun you can have with treerats without killin' 'em is get your wife mad to the point where she will run down the yard after 'em hollerin' and firing an air pistol (that looks like a tricked out .45) barefoot wearing a bright pink nightgown that barely covers her ass. The guys that were drivin' by when this happened nearly hit a tree.

A close second is puttin' mixing bowls upside down over the feeders. I thought this would stop the rats climbing down the rope onto the feeders. It don't but it does stop 'em climbing back up. Then you sick your dog on the rat. They tend to panic when they realise they can't climb up away from the dog.

Too funny...

PT, neat pic! Don't tell anybody but I told a story here awhile back about my first crat kill down in a grove on the east coast of the Windy State... well, I hung the bastard on the wall in the cafeteria by its tail real early the next day to spite a fem-bunny hugger that had been bustin' my chops about hunting. Sure did cause a stir on campus! About 75% of the student body thought it was groovy, the others had no sense of humor at all. I think the faculty was about 100% con on the endeavor. Liberal swine, even way back then.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.Contact.Cement

Heyy Poletax, is that like the horses head in the bed routine?? derf

DD & derf,,,that's a West Viginia Doorknocker.

It keeps the Jehovah Witnesses away.

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DD & derf,,,that's a West Viginia Doorknocker.

It keeps the Jehovah Witnesses away.

You should apply for a patent you could become a millionaire over night.

Me and my buddy did similar things, with cats, all the way through High School. We actually got caught wiring a dead cat to the clapper on the school "victory" bell by the Town Sheriff, but he just laughed and made sure he was nearby the next time it was rung after a football game. Of course, the cat was kinda ripe by that time, and came apart under the stress.

You were a fine unstanding young feller 120mm. I see how things led to Iraq now.

By the way, it seems that the Muslims use PA systems now when they are called to prayer. A step up from the old days I guess, when the guy had to wail and moan up in the tower, or whatever they call it. I bet they could tell the difference between the guy that sounds like his nuts are in a vice and a crat with its nuts in a vice, but I'm not sure I could. Maybe I should get some new leather gloves and take a few crats to Gitmo. And a vice. I'll make sure Newsweek isn't around, cause, well, maybe they can't. I sure don't want to make those fellas pray more than 5 times a day, it's bound to be tough on the knees.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.Crat.Clapper

Cought one of the little shits in a live trap this morning, first limb rat I ever got in this kind of trap, any way I grab him with a towl and hold him down while my 12 year old daughter tapes his tail to his hind leg, then I let it go, let me tell ya me and my girl almost pass out laughing so damn hard, my wife gets highly pissed for messing with the "cute little thing" but that was one of the funny'st things I have ever seen sober, you guys have got to try this.

Short, that's a novel idea on several levels! Be sure your little girl gets over that after she goes thru puberty. You don't want her teaching guys that trick after I'd think. Just not the kind of vermin you need for a son-in-law. On the other hand, you might teach 'em yourself later on, that would be okay. BTW, you try that with a crat yet? I've seen crats with tape on their tail, but never with their tail taped to their leg. It's a nice visual!

One last thing, what is the funniest thing you ever saw when you were NOT sober? Don't be shy, inquiring minds want to know.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.DuctTape.Humor

Monkeys at the Zoo on acid !!!!!!!! How they got it I will never tell.

OMG!

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.AtALoss.ForWords

You guys bring back all the memories when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's. 2 of us had 22 pistols and 1 had a 20 gauge and we went cat huntin every night. Lots of fond memories of cat shooting. On the limb rat issue. I have found the best way to get em all is a newspaper tube and a 110 conibear. I mount the tube to a tree and cut some slots to slide the 110 into the tube. Behind the trap I put part of a cob of corn. I put these over my deer feeders and couldn't hardly keep the trap set. All the squill dinners you want, and no noisy guns.

Short44,

Monkeys on acid would be hilarious. At the Portland Oregon zoo the monkeys will jack off and throw the stuff at women. All you have to do is make the appropriate shall we say, hand signal, to get them started. Totally freaks out the ladies. I just wonder which bored animal keeper taught them this or did they learn just be example. Adds new meaning to the term monkey handler. There are a lot of gifted sick people in this world.

I think Dan's idea of a "cat minuret" is wonderful.

Many moons ago,,In A life I no longer live,I ran into a dude at a bar,,,,he kind of annoyed me,,but got along well with my drinking buddy who I had dragged out of bed to close the bars[I had week end shift,,,,,,and the week days open] I told my buddy to ask him if he was interested in a "smoke" ,,,he obliged,,,,ranting on about you two are the coolest people he had ever met,,hit the road,,asking us to stick around at the bar for a while,,so my buddy and I were envisioning the cops coming in,,,This dude comes back,,and slides these mushrooms across the bar toward us,,,,,I'll never look at christmas lights the same way again Have'nt touched any of that stuff in twelve years now,,,married with childeren,,,different perspectives.Drunken monkeys,,,Has anyone seen the national geographic tape on africa,,with the trees that produce fruit with soo much sugar they ferment on the limbs,,,drunken monkeys,,,elephants,giraffes,,,,,etc.Clay

Clay, I suppose we all had some times like that, and survived somehow. Once I saw a movie call Flash Gordon...or maybe it was Flesh Gordon, not really sure now. Well there was this stuff in my system, and I don't remember much about it, but damn, those sure were some wild ass colors!

Anyway, common sense prevailed and I did my time as a useful contributor to society, without parole I might add. Time flows like a river, don't ever pass up a chance to live is all I say, you can't swim downstream.

120mm, glad you liked it! I hope not, but if you wind up in Minerete Land or whatever they're called, before I get to Gitmo, maybe you can try the concept out. One never knows where it might lead.

Dan

Pres., TYHC

www.WhenYouGotEm.ByTheBalls

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I just wonder which bored animal keeper taught them this

My brother-in-law comes to mind.

Or maybe they taught him.

Hillbilly is he PT? derf