Gentlemen, I am having real problems with chipmunks. They dig up the flower beds, and almost weekly they commit suicide in my pool. I am on the verge of buying a Gamo airgun with scope to erradicate the little striped buggers....... Any suggestions?

HavaHart traps. Once you catch them you can 'relocate' them anywhere.

Fruit and nuts seem to work best as bait.

Get a good cat.

17 hm2

The pellet gun will be the most fun. By accident I found that they think rat poison is for them and I am down from a colony to one or two(THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE). As long as it, or they, stay out of the bird feeders I will just chuckle at the antics, if not....

Thanks for the suggestions! No crats please! The pellet gun seems to be my only alternative -- well, at least the most fun!

get the17 hm2--then your problem will soon be you dont have enough targets to shoot at.

jb, I live in suburbia and that wouldn't go over too well!!

Rat traps. The good old Victor snap trap. My father wares out two a year.

you probably already have a .22 so just use that. If you buy the CCI CB Long ammunition it is indoor ammunition, they are actually quieter than a pellet gun. You can hear the bullets hitting the target louder than when they go off.

A Jack Russell terrier....preferably two.

Hey Marko, an air rifle would be perfect. I have a Beeman 1000 fps 17cal and would not hesitate to use it on chipmunks. Some of the high power air rifles are pretty loud though, depending on your neighbor situation. I wish I had enough chipmunks around here for a little safari. It would be a real hoot with the Beeman.

Hey Shawn! I will be getting myself an air rifle and begin the process of erradicating the little striped buggers. They dig up the entire yard -- they are very destructive.

Hey Marko I don't know if you have Big 5 sporting goods stores there , but they have my same Beeman on sale in todays adds for $159.99 with scope and all.

No Big 5s out this way. I got my first Daisy BB gun from a Big 5 in SoCal when I was just a kid!

Whitworth - Gamo makes a badass pellet gun that ive successfully used on Fox out to 45 yards. 1,000-1,200fps.

Here is one of the few fox ive taken with the air rifle.

I think this is the route I am going to take. Thanks for posting the fox picture, Justin!

My brother used to have an 1100 fps 17 cal RWS model 48 with a 6x burris pellet gun scope,which I used to shoot a grackle at a measured 70 yds.Pellet went completely through it.
Only problem was,it was very loud.A very annoying sound,too.And,very wind sensitive.For close range squirrels or chipmunks it would be over kill.
I have a benjamin sheriden 20 cal blue streak that you can pump from about three times (350 fps )to eight or ten( 650 fps).That would be about right,and my son has a crossman pump that would work also,but it has a plastic stock and mine has figured walnut!!

I use 22 CB Short subsonics from CCI, very quiet round, about 700 fps.

+1 on the Sheridan 20 cal or. I find three pumps on mine gives me good accuracy and will shoot through a rabbit's head at 50 feet nicely.

The CB subsonics out of my long barreled M75 are about as quit and have a little better range.

5 gal bucket half filled with water. Board leaning on edge of bucket to ground. Sunflower seeds on board leading up to edge of bucket. Some sunflower seeds in the water. My guess is you will "collect" over 30 of them in a few days.

For squirrels you need a bigger bucket and a piece of waxed paper floating on the water, seeds on paper.

That's a good idea, Jackson67. The squirrels aren't really a problem like the chipmunks are and about once a week I have to fish a dead chipmunk out of the pool......

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
That's a good idea, Jackson67. The squirrels aren't really a problem like the chipmunks are and about once a week I have to fish a dead chipmunk out of the pool......

You already have a pool for a bucket, just line her with the wax paper and buy 100# of sunflower seed.

I dunno, I never could bring myself to shoot a Chipmonk! I always made camp pets out of them in a few days..

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
I dunno, I never could bring myself to shoot a Chipmonk! I always made camp pets out of them in a few days..

Ray, if you could see the damage they do in the yard, you would be scrambling for your firearms!

Well, I borrowed my brother-in-law's 10-shot .22 S&W revolver, and I just ordered a box of CB caps.......standby as the war on the chipmunks is about to begin........

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Gentlemen, I am having real problems with chipmunks. They dig up the flower beds, and almost weekly they commit suicide in my pool. I am on the verge of buying a Gamo airgun with scope to erradicate the little striped buggers....... Any suggestions?

One of the requirements in Mammalogy class was making museum rodent mounts so I became adept at trapping rodents using mouse and rat traps baited with peanutbutter & bacon grease mixed together,another item that works is Zinc Phosphide when they eat the pellets it reacts with stomach acid & turns to phosgene gas in their gut killing them as long as one doesn't have pets.

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Originally posted by crowrifle:
HavaHart traps. Once you catch them you can 'relocate' them anywhere.

Fruit and nuts seem to work best as bait.

I drown them.

I pulled one out of the pool yesterday. I will see how successful my hunts are first, and then we'll try something else.......

I can't believe you're not getting a pellet pistol... wait 'til the news gets over on the handgun hunting forum...

I have a pellet pistol in California but cannot get ahold of it. I have Smith & Wesson at my disposal and should be getting the CB caps in the mail this week that I ordered last week. I will dial it in over the weekend and then begin the chipmunk cull hunt.......

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Originally posted by jwp475:
Don't shoot Alvin... Just don't shoot Alvin

Alvin's going down, man!!

I have the same problem and I just use the traps. They wont sit still long enough for me to go get the gun and then get in position to shoot them.

This is why I will be laying in ambush as I have mapped out all of their holes in the yard (and there are a lot). I watch them in the morning and they have a bit of a routine......

Okay, my CB Caps arrived in the mail and I tried a couple out at 10 yards and the revolver needs a little dialing in, but I will do it tomorrow. I won't go into the backyard unarmed anymore....... Standby......

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Originally posted by Whitworth:
Okay, my CB Caps arrived in the mail and I tried a couple out at 10 yards and the revolver needs a little dialing in, but I will do it tomorrow. I won't go into the backyard unarmed anymore....... Standby......

I use CCI CB caps in my Remington Nylon 11 22 rifle that has a weaver 22 scope on it, many digger squirrels have succombed to the quiet cb caps.

I shot it today and it is good enough for government work!! Let the fun begin!

I had a successful hunt last night and the report is n the handgun hunting forum......

I may have the perfect cartridge for you! A customer brought me a box of 22 rf, Aguila super colibri last week. 20g bullet at 500 fps. 22 long length with primer compound only. The big kicker is they are ALOT quieter than an air rifle. About as loud as a Daisey Red Ryder. Pretty accurate to about 15-20 yards. Out of a pistol they have a pretty loud pop, but from a rifle you can hear the firing pin click. Somtimes the sound of the bullet hitting the target is louder than the slight noise from the muzzle! They've been taking care of some problem birds around here for the last week. Give em' a try.