Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on November 25, 2014, 10:15:37 pm
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Yesterday I was getting ready to leave my small bow shop and head inside for the evening when I heard a scratching sound from the corner. I went to investigate and saw a small mouse. I grabbed the nearest weapon, a FG fishing arrow and went after it. The rodent proved to fast for the fishing arrow and took cover under a cabinet. I have had a baited trap set under my workbench since last winter. I looked at it and saw it was picked clean. I had checked it a few days prior and it was still set and baited so I knew he hadn't been in there to long. I reset the trap with a chunk of peanut butter cookie super glued to the trigger. Late last night I checked it and I had caught him. I reset the trap just to make sure he was the only one. This morning as I was leaving for work I checked it and found I had caught another one. Surely that was the last one. Tonight I came home and went to get rid of the pest and reset the trap. As I walk in the door I see another mouse sitting on my work bench staring at me with an evil glint in his beady little eyes. For a moment we were both frozen, waiting on the other to make the first move. I quickly grabbed a cane shaft and started swinging. He made a desperate dive off the bench and went running behind it. I baited the trap and reset it again. But that's not good enough. I grabbed my official Red Ryder carbine action 200-range-shot model air rifle and carefully loaded it with ammo. I'm giving him time to settle down before I resume the hunt.
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Aim small miss small.
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Great story Clint........"cabin fever" so early??? :) Got'a here the ending........sitting on pins and needles just waiting.
DBar
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Have same infestation problem each year when 1st cold snaps occur. And same trap solution. Good huntin' to ya!!
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The game is on..... Go get 'em you big bully. ;D
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The game is afoot, and blood will be spilled >:D
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Ahhh, fox bait! Good luck!
Wayne
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I figured enough time had passed to allow him to break cover and find the trap so I headed back out to the shop. I eased the door open and saw the cookie was gone and the trap was still set. He stole the bait before the TB could set up and hold it tight to the trigger. I went back inside and got the superglue to try it again. After I reset the trap I decided to try and wait him out. The Red Ryder was cocked and ready for action. After a few minutes I heard a slight noise from the stave pile under the work bench. I crouched down and watched closely. Movement caught my eye from the right side of the pile. There he was, carefully emerging and perched on top of a 20 year old osage stave. I took careful aim and dropped the hammer. As the Red Ryder roared the mouse buckled at the impact and tumbled to the ground. A perfectly placed neck shot brought him to a quick and humane end.
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Nice shot! Are you saving the sinew or tanning the hide? ;)
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Nice story - looks like a booner! Better get him caped out.
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You'll shoot your eye out! 8)
Nice shot placement, Clint. You didn't mess up much meat or hide.
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Waste not want not Pat ;)
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Let him hang a few days before butchering. Great story. I'm in the middle of the same endeavor. I recently bought a new house and the very first night I parked my truck under the barn overhang I had a mouse make a nest in the V of the engine using the battery's insulation.
The backup generator is useless because a mouse chewed up the wiring.
I went up in the attic of my shop and there were mouse droppings everywhere.
So that was it, I went to war. I put out a bucket with water with a trapdoor on top. I caught a total of 15 mice so far!
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Back in '88 my mom set a "Have a Heart" trap for a mouse in the basement. Instead of having its neck broken in an instant it died of dehydration while it couldn't turn around. Nice shootin' Tex!
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I can see it now - the Outlaw will be sporting a new Fur Hat at the Classic this year >:D O:) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:Bob
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;D ;D ;D ;D you should be a writer Clint, you kept my interest through that whole amazing adventure. ;) :D :D :D Nice shot by the way. :)
Pappy
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Nice shooting Ralphie. :D
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I guess since my deer season is done I was missing the thrill of the hunt ;D
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Hate them critters. I had a rat snake living in my shop year before last because of the mice. He and I coexisted for a time. Great story Clint.
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Nice story, waiting for the movie.
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Every Winter I've had at least one Rat build a nest somewhere in my shop. I've done everything every year you did, Clint. Ever try the electric traps? >:D Those are cool. :D Finally I started putting moth balls all over the shop, especially in my wood pile, this year for the first time, no rats or mice.
Great shooting by the way. The wife would make fun of me sitting in the shop in the dark with a flashlight taped on my pellet rifle :).
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Honestly, I think you should make a mini bow and then show those mice who is boss. >:D
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Lmao :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: ....im always at war with em in my shop >:(
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Maybe the mice would eat wood borers... Lol..... Nice shootin, i still love BB guns and shoot em often... Brian
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I made a live trap out of duct tape, half a minnow trap and an antique Ford we had laying around. The other half of the minnow trap was busted or I would have used the whole thing. I caught a mouse in our garage with it.
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Great story.. It's not the game hunted.. It's about the hunt..
Thanks Leroy
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Wasn't it Crazy Horse that said, "When the buffalo are gone we will hunt mice. Because we are hunters."
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Lol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKMBk3js7e0
Japbow.
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I nominate Clint for the "Never Cry Wolf" Award! (All the Canadians will get the reference and some others that maybe saw the movie but didn't read the book.)
What do you carry for a backup close range weapon in case you gotta follow a wounded one into the bush?
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Great stuff man. Nice writing had me hooked. Great to see the BB gun. Gotta love em
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Beat you to it JW! (just barely)
Check out my Youtube link... ;)
Japbow.
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I have had that gun since I was very young. Besides bumble bees that's the first critter its ever killed. Glad you guys liked the hunting story. I guess I was a little bored last night. That mouse must have been the last one. My trap was untouched today. I'll keep the Red Ryder handy just in case ;)
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Nice bit of writing there! Here in Yosemite we are still dealing with the fallout from the Hanta Virus outbreak of a couple of years ago. First it was a ziploc bag HV kit with mask and gloves and a trap and detailed instruction on how to dispose of the whole kit an kaboodle. Last week - 4 trap sets = 4 mice! I just dump the thing out and re-use the trap. Figured as much mouse dung as I have been exposed to over the years I probably got some anitbodies. Now we got a three gallon bucket disposal kits for heavier infestations. Comes with traps, masks, gloves, disinfectant and a tightly sealed bucket with a removable screw on filler cap for disposal.
At an earlier office space here i had a trap line of about 15 mouse traps. usually about 5 per day. I do like the buckets of death can be made in a variety of ways.
Years ago we started having issues in my wifes car with the headlights. They would just go out while cruising down the highway. Ordered a new switch ( non-refundable electronic part) and when I was having work done on the car asked the mech if he could help me replace the switch. He came back in and says "Dude, you got a code 64!" What's that? I says He come back with "Big F'ing Rat!" A pack rat had built a nest around the wiring harness where it was attached to the firewall and had chewed through the wires. Did not need the switch after all! :-\
So - let the mouse wars continue!
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I get the occasional mouse in the house but nothing a couple of traps wont take care of. My biggest issues have always been with my truck. Had one crawl thru the air intake duct and chew a hole in my air filter a couple of years ago. Worst part was my truck quit running and it took my two days to find the small peice of paper fluff stuck to the wire on my mass air flow sensor. Then this fall when the weather cooled enough for me to turn on my heater all i got was a big puff of rat nest floating thru the cab and all my vents plugged off >:(. Took two weeks and a coat hanger to finaly get the the vents cleared all the way. And this truck is my daily driver that rarely sits for more than 24 hours.
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With the bucket-o-death traps, if you put anti-freeze in the bucket it will pickle the mice so they wont stink - course, then you can't eat em >:D
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That was awesome you need to make it into a huntin video next time
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With the bucket-o-death traps, if you put anti-freeze in the bucket it will pickle the mice so they wont stink - course, then you can't eat em >:D
...replace the anti-freeze with Strong Vinegar, (I prefer an aged Balsamic) and the pickled mice should still be edible! - OneBow
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With the bucket-o-death traps, if you put anti-freeze in the bucket it will pickle the mice so they wont stink - course, then you can't eat em >:D
...replace the anti-freeze with Strong Vinegar, (I prefer an aged Balsamic) and the pickled mice should still be edible! - OneBow
Dang near as good as pickled pig's feet and you can crunch through these bones!
My kestrel had a mysterious gain of 4 grams of weight last week, despite how I control his diet rigorously. Then the other night I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I am now running a trapline behind furniture and have nailed one mouse so far. I figure since Hendrix, the American kestrel is loose in the house much of the day, he made an unauthorized kill! Explains his sudden weight gain.
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Livingroom falconry, now that's hunting :D :D
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Livingroom falconry, now that's hunting :D :D
That would be a 'hoot'. >:D
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Glad you made such a good shot. My dad always said you had to shoot them between the eyes cause they charge when there wounded.
Big A
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Clint, did you get it mounted, or just doing the skull mount?
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I vote for a euro mount of the skull and a laprobe from the hide.
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I tried cooking a chipmunk skull with some others I was working on last year. It was so thin it crumbled when I tried to clean it. If I'm going to do a mouse skull I need to figure out a different method.
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I tried cooking a chipmunk skull with some others I was working on last year. It was so thin it crumbled when I tried to clean it. If I'm going to do a mouse skull I need to figure out a different method.
Small mason jar of water, screw the lid shut, wait a few weeks, shaking daily. On a windy day, pour it out into a bucket of fresh water, scrub with a toothbrush gently. Peroxide and bleach as normal, but go very lightly. Oh, and wear rubber gloves or else everything you eat for a month will smell like rotting mouse a$$.
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I get the occasional mouse in the house but nothing a couple of traps wont take care of. My biggest issues have always been with my truck. Had one crawl thru the air intake duct and chew a hole in my air filter a couple of years ago. Worst part was my truck quit running and it took my two days to find the small peice of paper fluff stuck to the wire on my mass air flow sensor. Then this fall when the weather cooled enough for me to turn on my heater all i got was a big puff of rat nest floating thru the cab and all my vents plugged off >:(. Took two weeks and a coat hanger to finaly get the the vents cleared all the way. And this truck is my daily driver that rarely sits for more than 24 hours.
Use to service cars I found lots of filter damage, they chew up the noise reduction padding and build nests near the air filter which clogs everything up. Best thing to do is take some metal screen and block off the fresh air intake.
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I'm fixing to make one of those bucket traps. Found a nest in my duck hunting waders in my garage. They chewed up some of the neoprene but I don't think they went all the way through. The waders smell like pee now. Not sure what to do about that.
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" As the Red Rider roared..." I love it! I got a Norway rat running the backyard gauntlet one warm summer evening during a BBQ. Nailed 'em in the back of the neck from about 15' with the BBQ fork! Everyone enjoyed the hunt and the swift execution! Kids are all gown now and one of 'ems friend always says, " I miss your Dad's elk burgers and remember that rat?!"
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did you continue the BBQ with the same fork? :o