Can't say much more, though I probably will...
This beautiful 20 ga. hasn't wasted a shell since the first shot I took at a rabbit last winter. The first chipmonk was a lucky shot, he was dashing up a tree when I caught him out of the corner of my eye. First shot from the hip I'd ever taken (no, really!). Unfortunately he was only ten feet away, the tree in the middle of the yard, Mama hanging clothes on the line, and I had to salvage "pieces". :disturbed:
Thing is, almost all of these critters are making themselves available to the Benelli in the exact same spot; a deadfall branch about six inches around on top of an old half-buried brushpile. I do believe they're nesting in there. If there are babies in the brush, they're deaf babies now (and hopefully motherless). There are a half-dozen notches in that deadfall branch, I'm dispatching about two a day.
At this rate we might even get a decent crop of chokecherries--Wine this fall! :eusa_clap:
Clinging to your god, guns and choke cherries apparently. :icon_smile:
Hee hee hee, yep.
I shot at another one on the aforesaid tree last evening--I know I hit him, I saw him disappear--But could not find a single sign of him anywhere. Using the modified choke from about 20 feet--Will that vaporize a six-inch long critter? :eek5:
You would find pieces. Maybe he was a ninja Squirrel. He limped back to his lair and is plotting his revenge.
It's funny how they just-----disappear---when I pull the trigger.
PuddinFace found the mystery rodent last night--He fell straight down into a hollow at the base of the tree--intact, but for lack of a head... :devil:
Speaking of disappear, We haven't seen nor heard a chipmonk in the grove or anywhere else since I last posted. I want to say that's a good thing, but I just don't trust the little bastiges.
I hung a plastic owl way in the back to protect my prize chokecherry bush, the one that's growing in a garbage heap and gives us fruit almost the size of real cherries. So far so good...
Those plastic scary looking owls are ferocious. I bought one a couple of years ago that took batteries to ward off some birds that kept pooping on our outdoor table and chairs. They used the owl to perch on and pooped all over it and still christened the table set every time we would clean it.
Mine has no batteries, just a stationary (though it swings on a wire) bird. It's been there about three weeks and the bush has been left alone for that same amount of time.
So, battery powered, eh? Uh, what do the batteries power? Glowing eyes? Flapping wings? Jedi light saber? A recording that sez "Sh!t on this table and taste the blade of my Jedi light saber!"?
Inquiring minds, you know... :eusa_think:
It would randomly move the head back and forth, and supposedly have a proximity sensor to make owl sounds if something close to it. I think it must have been owl love calls.