dreamrocks
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by dreamrocks on Apr 15, 2020 11:36:19 GMT -5
Let’s be clear about this you do not have a muff gun what you have is a Deringer. What you are referring to was a single shot flint lock which you clearly don’t have. What you have maybe.
First patented in 1849, they were not made until 1859, when Sharps patented a practical derringer design. These first model derringers had brass frames and fired the recently introduced .22 Rimfire metallic cartridges. Wikipedia › wiki › Derringer Derringer - Wikipedia
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Post by fernwood on Apr 15, 2020 14:18:45 GMT -5
I stand corrected. My family always called it a muff gun, as ladies in the 1800's carried them in their hand muffs.
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Post by parfive on Apr 15, 2020 14:29:04 GMT -5
Rest easy, Josh. The bum gun can handle muffs.
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Post by stardiamond on Apr 16, 2020 19:56:43 GMT -5
I had one recently the first one in a long time. I think he walked through an open door. It took 4 kinds of traps to finally get him; sticky one. I put him in a garbage bag and then in the landfill can. He should be happy there.
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Post by fernwood on Apr 17, 2020 6:51:51 GMT -5
I offer apologizes to anyone who was offended by my reference of a gun I have. Was using 1800's terminology. Remember when to be gay meant to be happy? So many things have changed in the language we use. At times I use the language I grew up with.
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Post by RickB on Apr 17, 2020 7:15:14 GMT -5
All is well, they are not offended. We have too much time to do nothing right now
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dreamrocks
freely admits to licking rocks
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Post by dreamrocks on Apr 17, 2020 7:21:57 GMT -5
I offer apologizes to anyone who was offended by my reference of a gun I have. Was using 1800's terminology. Remember when to be gay meant to be happy? So many things have changed in the language we use. At times I use the language I grew up with. It’s not a big deal👽told me so No worries
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whyofquartz
spending too much on rocks
So, Africa is smaller than I expected...
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Post by whyofquartz on Apr 18, 2020 10:33:28 GMT -5
not sure i would have been a big help except to advise that any google search for "muff gun" be preceded by a trip to your settings to turn on safe search
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whyofquartz
spending too much on rocks
So, Africa is smaller than I expected...
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Post by whyofquartz on Apr 18, 2020 10:50:54 GMT -5
i can offer this: the Norway rat is the most common rat in the US and is said to get as big as a cat, though i have never seen on that large i am at a more southern latitude and mammals get smaller closer to the equator. my boss swears by the power of pecans, he says rats absolutely can not resist them so if you can get some shelled pecans that may do the trick. bigger rats mean bigger traps, i recommend looking online for how to build snares since your live trap is possibly too small. A traditional snare will normally catch them alive and you can dispatch them yourself. poisons are a bad option only because the rats may die in your house or be eaten by animals you don't want poisoned. you should be able to build a good snare out of fishing tackle that will trap the beast and hold its weight. good hunting (you might also put an ad down at the pub and ask adventurers to solve your rat problem but the will probably smash all your jars)
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Post by fernwood on Apr 18, 2020 11:04:19 GMT -5
My rodent control person is coming out next week, if my basement has dried out. I have tried pecans as bait, just ran out of them about 2 months ago.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 1, 2020 14:04:31 GMT -5
Caught this obviously male rat in the live trap. Then he suffered from lead poisoning, lol.
Bait used in trap was small black sunflower seeds found in wild bird seed mix.
I'm actually trying to trap the squirrel that keeps eating seed put out for the doves, finches, sparrows, etc. Used to feed them copious amounts of seed, until the vermin started showing up. They've been cut way back for now.
ETA - Dying quickly from a well placed pellet has got to be more humane than using poison. That is a slow painful death.
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Post by Pat on Aug 1, 2020 14:15:21 GMT -5
rockpickerforever. As the RODENT LOVERS OF AMERICA will tell you, squirrels and rats gotta eat, too. I do not belong to this group, but a dear family member does.
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dreamrocks
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Post by dreamrocks on Aug 1, 2020 14:39:49 GMT -5
That’s about the size of a vole I watched go into my live trap yesterday munched down some seeds then left. I didn’t set the trigger right it was my first set but did after he left and haven’t seen him back today yet.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 1, 2020 15:33:13 GMT -5
rockpickerforever . As the RODENT LOVERS OF AMERICA will tell you, squirrels and rats gotta eat, too. I do not belong to this group, but a dear family member does. Sure they do, Pat. Just not at my house.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 1, 2020 15:41:52 GMT -5
Ditto on that, Robin! Once I get rid of the four legged vermin, I need to do something about the birds devouring my figs.
Wouldn't be so bad if they'd just peck at and eat one or two. But nooooo, they have to destroy a multitude of them, taking tastes like they are Goldilocks until they get the perfect one. And the ones that don't get et, they get shit on... Feel like I am feeding half the wildlife in the neighborhood, lol.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 1, 2020 18:39:30 GMT -5
Caught this obviously male rat in the live trap. Then he suffered from lead poisoning, lol.
Bait used in trap was small black sunflower seeds found in wild bird seed mix.
I'm actually trying to trap the squirrel that keeps eating seed put out for the doves, finches, sparrows, etc. Used to feed them copious amounts of seed, until the vermin started showing up. They've been cut way back for now.
ETA - Dying quickly from a well placed pellet has got to be more humane than using poison. That is a slow painful death.
DH had a pet rat named Amadeus. He was really cool, actually. One day he got loose in his dad's apt and apparently got into some poison in the walls. Wayfarin. He was really suffering. DH didn't have a weapon around so he crushed his head with a cinder block. Better than suffering.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 1, 2020 18:49:36 GMT -5
rockjunquie, I had a couple of female rats as pets some time ago. Their names were Frannie (a character on my mom's soap opera), and the other was Shirley (named after Shirley Muldowny, a female dragster racer, way ahead of her time). The rat was white withe grey markings, she had a racing stripe down her back! Years after that, I was raising both rats and mice for feeding snakes. Rabbits I would buy.
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EricD
Cave Dweller
High in the Mountains
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Post by EricD on Aug 1, 2020 18:53:48 GMT -5
There are times immediate life ending damage is more humane than allowing the subject to live, for sure. Easy to make the choice if you aren't related and spent many decades with them. Even easier if you just met them that day.
Always easy if you have a clear head and are able to see where it's all headed with a decent margin of error. Emotion usually clouds one's mind during the event, and sometimes, in the extreme, forever... Causing bad decisions to be made that increase suffering.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 1, 2020 19:06:29 GMT -5
rockjunquie , I had a couple of female rats as pets some time ago. Their names were Frannie (a character on my mom's soap opera), and the other was Shirley (named after Shirley Muldowny, a female dragster racer, way ahead of her time). The rat was white withe grey markings, she had a racing stripe down her back! Years after that, I was raising both rats and mice for feeding snakes. Rabbits I would buy. We've had our share of rodent pets. I had two white mice named Heckle and Jeckle after the cartoon. One of them hated the other and eventually succeeded in killing it. Don't know what that was all about. But, I had the victor for a long time- about as long as mice live, I guess.
Then there were the hamsters. Ugh. Hate those things. I had 2 and didn't like them much. My daughters had to have them. More Ugh.
If I didn't have cats, I would probably have a couple rats. Domesticated rats don't bother me. My daughter had 2. She got them real young from a pet shop. I swear one of them was a wild Norwegian Roof Rat. It certainly wasn't tame or domesticated. That b*itch would bite!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 1, 2020 19:59:19 GMT -5
I asked for and received my first Guinea pig from my parents for my tenth birthday. We got it at Sears!! While I was at school the next day, my three year old sister carried it in and out of the house and all over, and killed it. So I got another one, then another, and we had them for years.
At the end of 11th grade, there was a mouse in my science class that needed to be rehomed, so I brought it home and built a cage for it. My first mouse, it was grey and white, I named him Ferguson. I found out he was a she. I still called her Ferguson, lol.
I have always had pets, of one type or another, until just a few years ago.
I was going to edit this to add that I have never had a hamster. LIAR! I remembered that I had dwarf Siberian hamsters for a while. Almost forgot about them...
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