The hardest hunt I have had in five years....

fourfive8 said:

Lay in wait ala Corbett in India! I’m still laughing, thinking back, thanks!! I needed some light humor and a reminder of a true story.

Many moons ago a group of us were staying in a tiny wilderness cabin that also had a rat claiming residence. One of the group volunteered to stay up, one eye open, manning a pistol, drawn and ready, loaded with a shot cartridge. BAAM! that rattled the walls, shocking everyone awake! Maybe 12 midnight. Problem solved. We nicknamed the late rat Ben in honor of the horror movie of the same name. The shot charge formed a perfect shadow outline of Ben on the wood floor. The site was labeled in pencil with “Ben”. That was at least 45 years ago and I believe that tiny one room cabin is still there, no doubt with Ben’s outline and name on the floor.

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Reminds me of hunting in Canada , stayed a nite or 2 in a walled tent with a wood floor, after dark a porcupine started knawing on the floor boards, no amount of banging would stop it for long. The "guide" refused to get up and go out and deal with it. " too cold" ,so I borrowed his 30-30 dressed ,went ot with a flashlite and killed it directly under his bed.

cwpayton said:

The "guide" refused to get up and go out and deal with it. " too cold"

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lazy bugger! good job!

Napalm.
Jump straight to the sticky chemical insta+cure bro.

It works on traveling salesmen too.

cwpayton said:

Reminds me of hunting in Canada , stayed a nite or 2 in a walled tent with a wood floor, after dark a porcupine started knawing on the floor boards, no amount of banging would stop it for long. The "guide" refused to get up and go out and deal with it. " too cold" ,so I borrowed his 30-30 dressed ,went ot with a flashlite and killed it directly under his bed.

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Was he prickly towards you after that ? Sorry couldn’t be helped

Caught one! Large, with white belly and black tail...maybe a tree rat? I hear they are smart. Wife was overjoyed. Peanut butter on Victor trap against wall set four days. We'll see if there is evidence of another soon. Victory shall be ours.
BTW, now feeding a feral cat...

Very few rats, mice, gophers, or lazy squirrels make it past Birdie…

steve white said:

The prey is practically a genius. I have become a real crank, some of you may have noticed, due to 5 nights of very poor sleep trying to kill it....a Norwegian rat! First one to ever make it into the house in 40 years. Wife would kill me if she saw me post about this, but I need HELP. I have scoured the internet for ideas. Even tried the five gallon bucket water trap, baited with peanut butter.

No trap, no stickie, no bait block, or concoction of Jiffy cornbread and baking soda has been touched, no mixture of confectioners sugar and plaster of Paris, either. It has no attraction to drinking anti-freeze; maybe the new stuff isn't sweet enough. Nothing has been touched, even in the attic or crawlspace. Wax rat blocks always worked before in the attic.
No leopard has been more clever. Ideas?.....

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My solution was to go hunting in my living room, lol. When my wife and I first married we lived in a 2br honeymoon cottage (shack) which was built by my Dad and uncles years earlier and started as a chicken coop that they built onto over the years and each new couple in the family was allowed to live there rent free until they could get a place of their own. It was not insulated, was drafty and infested with mice in the winter months. One night, I set five traps before dinner and within minutes we heard, snap, snap, snap, snap as all five killed a mouse in minutes. While finishing my dinner in the living room, I observed a mouse sneak out of the kitchen, skirt the wall around the room, climb up the curtains, across the curtain rod and down the other side and disappear behind a chair. I went to our bedroom and found my little 22lr rife, loaded a birdshot round and sat watching TV. My wife thought I was nutz. Then the mouse climbed the curtain and started across the curtain rod near the ceiling and "Pow!" down he went. The 6" shot pattern remained on the wall as a warning to other vermin until the day we tore down the shack. It did not end the problem but I was highly satisfied that I had done my part. Sadly, we failed to get pics of me posing with the trophy. For a rat, be sure to use enough gun. Perhaps 22 mag shot shells?, lol