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I almost forgot, Cabelas and Cheaper than Dirt carry them. Get the Super Colibri, no the plain Colibri. 500fps vs 350pfs, no difference in noise. I've shot both. | |||
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Sounds like your pool is doing a better job than you!  Sorry, couldn't resist!You don't need a real powerful pellet gun for Chipmunks. This is the perfect excuse for you to buy a nice match-grade pellet rifle. I think Anschutz makes nice "chipmunk" pellet guns. I love chipmunks. One of my fondest memories is a year they were as numerous as prairie dogs. I used to stand on a bluff and shoot until I got tired. | |||
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Actually, I got two in the last week -- still trying to catch up with the pool!  I bought a box of CCI CB Caps and they're quiet and accurate enough for government work! Go to the handgun hunting forum and I put up a hunting report on the one I shot a couple of days ago...... It's a lethal enough combination and none of the neighbors have complained -- yet! The chipmunks have been stearing clearing since I wacked a couple of them.......I do plan on buying a pellet gun in the near future........ "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Got another one this morning. I was working on my first cup of coffee when I saw one running around in the back yard. So, I grabbed my revolver, eased the back door open, steadied the gun against the door frame, and wacked him. He was flopping around, so I did my best to put another in him. I then walked out and stuck yet another in him as he was still breathing. Either they're very tough, or CB caps out of a revolver are very weak! My latest "trophy":"Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Yeah. Then when the chipmunks are gone, kill the crat. Some people are a lot like Slinkies: They're not good for much but it's kind of fun to push them down a flight of stairs. | |||
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No crats allowed here! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Not even dead ones?  Some people are a lot like Slinkies: They're not good for much but it's kind of fun to push them down a flight of stairs. | |||
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Dead crats are the exception to the rule!! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Oh, hey, got another one this morning. Similar scenario -- drinking my first cup of coffee when I notice this chipmunk raising Cain in the backyard. I eased the door open and silenced him forever with one shot from my little S&W .22.......Bang-flop....... I'm getting good at this! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I realize i suggested CB caps but man I gotta tell you you are just not getting much for entrance/exit wounds. You must have to do a lot of blood trailing. My M75 has a 24 inch barrel and they look like they've been shot when I get 'em with it. I think these must be pool chipmunks that you blow dried for trophy photos or they died of fright from seeing the size of the pistol. I have taken to whacking them with my .223 and light Blue Dot loads under Varmint Grenades. That makes pieces. Kinda like a close range in miniature version of the Barnes videos. | |||
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LOL, MIles! I don't think I am getting better than 350 fps out of these big 29 grain bullets!! Here's another photo after I flipped the last chipmunk over, you can see the entry wound as he was quartering towards me. Got a complete pass-through. It's scary trailing a wounded Chipmunk.......  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I've got the best job; Just for you Whit; Didn't even take my toolbelt off;Wacked this one on the job today... First kill ever with a handgun...  [IMG]http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm235/woodmanDan_photo/IMG_0063.jpg[/IMG dan | |||
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I am going up to the cabin tonight. I have to work out some loads for a .243 and settle an '06 and try some 130 TSXs in a 300 WM. I also have 4-5 different 12 ga slugs to try out. The good part is that there's lots of chipmunks on the little range we have there. I don't think i should have much trailing of cripples to do but I will try to get a picture of a proper entrance/exit wound. Of course these "northern chimunks" are bigger bodied than those puny down south guys so we tend to use a little more gun on 'em. | |||
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Haha!! Dan, you are the man!! That is funny!! You are officially a handgun hunter!! I almost got another this morning. LOL!! That's great!!  Dan, you have to post that on the handgun hunting forum above! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Miles, I am looking forward to seeing the carnage!! Go to the handgun hunting forum above andlook at the first hunting report I posted entitled "Dangerous Game Handun Hunt" -- I used my .475 Linebaugh....... "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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And yet another one bites the dust, but this one was the toughest so far! I shot him at 15 yards again from the back door -- I just opened it a bit and let a bullet fly. It was a solid strike and he went straight down, rolled over on his back and twitched. Dead chipmunk, right? Wrong! By the time I got my shoes on and outside he was gone!! Just some blood where he had been! So, I start combing the yard in search of e fatally hit chipmunk and can't even find a blood trail. Nothing. All of a sudden I hear a chirp which sounded like a chipmunk. I go out to the driveway and scared something out of the bushes, so I head back into the yard and see an obviously wounded chipmunk explode out of the bushes, dragging its hindquarters. Then he heads into the ivy, under the fence and into the driveway. I run, grab a rake and manage to head him off. He scurries into the yard again and I get the chance to shoot him again, so I do. He rolls over and I am sure it's over. I grab my camera, turn back around and he's gone again!! What the hell?! I spot him heading under the barbeque, so I roll it out and put one more in him, right behind the ear.......it was finally over. Good grief! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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MY GOD MAN!!! Don't you know your just tempting fate! The odds are turning against you! Pretty soon you'll be just another statistic,or a headline; "Savage Chipper Attacks Hunter".... or "Hunter Loses Toe To Wild Attack" Film at 11... Dan | |||
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After thinking about it... When you do get charged and squashed... Can I have your gun? Dan | |||
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Yes, I am pushing the envelope!! But someone has to do it! What can I say? I guess I am a thrill seeker! LOL!! Dan -- please post your handgun kill on the handgun hunting forum! Folks will get a kick out of it!  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I went back to the range at the cabin. Had some 243 ammo that wouldn't shoot good enough at 100 so I burned them off on chipmunks. Got four missed two. I was shooting Varmint Grenades at 2250. I got good blood on entrance and exit wounds, but not much vaporization. I think them little buggers are tougher than they look. | |||
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You're telling me! They are tough! Where are the photos, Miles??!! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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After three shots there ain't gonna be much eatin'.  Some people are a lot like Slinkies: They're not good for much but it's kind of fun to push them down a flight of stairs. | |||
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And my taxidermist isn't going to be very happy with me....... "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Got yet another this morning, between my 2nd and 3rd cup of coffee. I had my modified .22 CB cap ammo (filed flat-points), and got a complete pass through...... This time I made sure it was really dead before turning my back......."Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Just wackin' 'em and stackin' 'em! Got one this morning at about ten yards, a gut shot, and he crawled right up to me -- probably intent on chewing my big toe off, at which point a flat-point .22 caliber bullet was dispatched to the back of its head. "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Little bastids do have a lot of fight in 'em. Some people are a lot like Slinkies: They're not good for much but it's kind of fun to push them down a flight of stairs. | |||
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Got another 30 minutes ago -- one in the morning, and one in the evening!! I guess this one didn't get the message and went into the wrong yard. 4-yards, off-hand, out the back door........ "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Your like a crack addict.... Now we think your just adding to your post totals....  Mostly just jealous because I only saw one gray tree rat today;to far for a shot.  Dan | |||
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Dan, they are targets of opportunity, and they keep showing up and giving me that opportunity!! Be patient Dan, some days I see nothing, and then all of a sudden you're slinging lead!! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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You are a munk killin' machine, Whitworth. I don't get many targets like that around my place. Used to. Don't know what happened. Prolly related to the fact that my kid's metal detector goes crazy when she walks through the yard with it.  Some people are a lot like Slinkies: They're not good for much but it's kind of fun to push them down a flight of stairs. | |||
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LOL!! I suspect that will be the case here too! They are really active now that the weather has started turning. But, I am ready for them!  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Here's a site about a laser slingshot I saw at the SHOT Show in Vegas www.catsdomain.com quiet and deadly on critters | |||
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That slingshot is cool!! I just came back from outa town and shot another munk in the yard...... I saw a couple earlier but no shots presented themselves until this one came around...... Complete pass through now that I am using my modified flat-point CB caps! I rarely got an exit with the round nose........ "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Got another 20 minutes ago in the exact same spot as the one I shot yesterday, sitting on a small tree stump. I got him through both shoulders -- bang-flop...... I'm on a roll...... <img src="https://forums.accuratereloading.com/toothless.gif" alt="hillbilly" width="15" height="15"><!--graemlin::hillbilly:--> "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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Whitworth, I used traps with great success on mice and squirrels. For bait peanut butter is the best. Rat traps work great on squirrels and one even got a mouse! Get the 'power' or optic that your eye likes instead of what someone else says. When we go to the doctor they ask us what lens we like! Do that with your optics. | |||
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I have no doubt that traps would be really affective, but I am just having too much fun this way! Plus, it's valuable practice for deer season (I am a handgun hunter afterall) as these twitchy little rodents are sometimes hard to hit! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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We have one that my Carin "Treed" up the garage down spout. Never laughed hard in my life! He didn't get it though, it made it to the fence before he did. | |||
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Got another about 45 minutes ago -- a big one (I know that sounds ridiculous, but it was big -- relatively speaking! ). Off-hand at about 10 yards. Yet another bang-flop.......I feel like this is becoming an obsession!  "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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I sure could use the target practice! Wish I had that problem in my back yard. The resident squirrel was walking on the ground around my archery target as I walked outside bow in hand the other day, he has no idea how close he was to gettin it. But then I would get no entertainment, I have two jack russels and that guy sits on the fence while they go bonkers. | |||
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HaHa!! Gotta keep your dogs entertained -- I guess as well as yourself! "Ignorance you can correct, you can't fix stupid." JWP If stupidity hurt, a lot of people would be walking around screaming. Semper Fidelis "Building Carpal Tunnel one round at a time" | |||
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