open season ferocious mice in garage

flyboy14 · March 8, 2009, 08:51 PM

Spent the morning at the range, and the afternoon in the garage. Mice

chewed a hole in the rubber gasket on the bottom of my garage door.

Wife set some traps, in the first hour, caught 10. Spent the rest of the day

shooting the beggars with my pellet gun, and resetting the traps. Total count

is at 23, 15 for the traps, and 8 for the pellet gun. 2 wounded didn't count

them yet, hard to follow the blood trail, and worried they might charge, think

I'll go get the big guns just to be safe. A guy will do some real strange things

when there isn't anything in season. flyboy

cornbush · March 8, 2009, 09:16 PM

Spent many nights in my uncles garage with a cheap blowgun. Loads of fun, got fair to good on hits at about 10 feet, laughs all night long.

Its harder for them to get away with a dart through them!!!

flyboy14 · March 8, 2009, 09:51 PM

good tip, think I'll try my muzzy's out, or maybe better off with my

expandable turkey heads, good practice for gobbler. Anyone got a

good mouse load for a 338 win mag? flyboy

Art Eatman · March 8, 2009, 10:44 PM

Get a box of mothballs at the grocery store. Scatter a dozen or so around the floor, under any workbench or behind boxes. Repeat as they evaporate. The smell of camphor is repellent to mice and squirrels.

The rubber gasket at the bottom of your garage door is probably a vegetable-based plastic. Mouse yummy. Petroleum-based plastic works far better.

publius · March 8, 2009, 10:59 PM

Nuthin more fun than sitting in the barn with a 12 pack and a pellet gun, awaiting the wary meese.

Daryl · March 9, 2009, 07:23 AM

Quote:

A guy will do some real strange things

when there isn't anything in season.

Yeah, no kidding!

A few years back, my brother and I were out in his garage, and noticed that the mice were acting sort of strange. They'd come out, wander around our feet, and weren't scared of us at all.

So my brother mentioned that to his wife, and she filled him in a bit.

It seems she'd read somewhere that if you put a small dish full of vodka on the floor in the garage, the mice would drink it, and wouldn't cause as much damage. Since she didn't want to kill them, she decided to try it.

Now, I don't know if it helped with the damage or not, but they're sure easier to hit with a pellet gun when they're drunk!

Daryl

simonkenton · March 9, 2009, 08:48 AM

I don't have a mouse load for a .338 mag, but I do have one for a 30-06.
You can load the case with a single 00 buckshot.
You can use just the primer for power, or, for a magnum load, put in one grain of powder.
Make sure to re-adjust scope.
You will have the baddest bb gun on the block.

I had some flying squirrels chewing on my dormers at night. I think they were making a nest up there.
I made a little pocket, by screwing a 1x2 to the dormer, where it is out of the rain.
I put 4 of these up there, on 2 dormers. Then I loaded them up with mouse bait, those blue granules you buy at the grocery store.
They have had 2 nights to eat the mouse bait, I have not heard them chewing since.
I don't like to kill animals unnecessarily, but, you start eating my log house, you are gonna die.

I noticed, a few months ago, a mouse had built a giant nest under the lid of my 500 gallon propane tank.
Pretty good home for a mouse, up off the ground, and out of the rain.
Looked at it yesterday, there was the remains of one mouse visible, nobody else home.
I think Mr. Snake crawled up there and ate the mice.
That would be a rough day, to be a two inch mouse, and have your house invaded by a 2 foot snake.

cornbush · March 9, 2009, 08:54 AM

Ill be stopping at the liquor store for vodka tonight!

fisherman66 · March 9, 2009, 08:55 AM

Quote:

It seems she'd read somewhere that if you put a small dish full of vodka on the floor in the garage, the mice would drink it, and wouldn't cause as much damage. Since she didn't want to kill them, she decided to try it.

She's NOTHING like my better half. Dearest would have murderous intent in her eyes. She would send me in as her henchman, but she might as well be the ax holder. Also, we've had the same bottle of vodka for almost two years now with several inches of firewater left, but she'd never volunteer her bloody mary go juice for snake bait.

onthejon55 · March 9, 2009, 10:16 AM

My cousins and i set up traps in my grandparents barn on christmas and sit out there and watch em get whacked! Farms kids are cruel!

fisherman66 · March 9, 2009, 10:41 AM

We had a giant rat problem in our hunting cabin (quality not quantity). We baited half a dozen of the jumbo traps and went to sleep that evening. Every now and then we'd hear the WHACK of the trap being sprung. We all be WIDE awake after each WHACK and inspect it for remains. Sometimes we'd find a whole rat and others we'd find pieces or nothing. We all awoke in the dead of night to a blood curdling scream to find the youngest camp member with a bruised forehead and tremors. A rat had crawled into his bunk and in his sleep he thought it was his new pointer puppy. He pet the varmint until it decided to take a nibble off the tip of his finger. He screamed, threw the rat and banged his head on the bunk supports above him. We all laughed for half an hour and tried to go back to sleep. A couple hours later another jumbo SNAPPED and we had all had enough of getting up to inspect. Every 20 seconds or so we'd hear the rat's tail THUMP, THUMP, THUMP on the floor until it expired at "get up time". I don't think many of us get more than a wink of sleep that night.

hogdogs · March 9, 2009, 11:01 AM

One of the coldest "Daytona Nights" that winter couldn't keep me in. Had p-nut butter smeared on the back fence in strategic locations....
Brent

12GaugeShuggoth · March 9, 2009, 11:10 AM

Hopefully everyone remembers that regardless of your target, no creature should be left wounded or be the victim of badly placed shots. If you're going to wage a small rodent jihad, at least keep it a clean fight.

hogdogs · March 9, 2009, 11:49 AM

I agree sluggoth...
For the occasional wounded runner I have 3 bulldogs that are all great at tracking them down. While not "soft mouthed" like a lab, I weren't eating them any way and the dogs saved me the hassle of carrying them to the dogs...

Brent

Evan Thomas · March 9, 2009, 01:09 PM

Nice-looking pellet gun. What is it?

Oh, and the dog's not bad, either...

hogdogs · March 9, 2009, 01:31 PM

That is the Gamo Shadow 1,000... Tater (looks like a baked tater) is a "blue pit" that wasn't blue so she had little value to the breeder... Heck on a hog though!
Brent

flyboy14 · March 9, 2009, 09:07 PM

Good tips all around, gonna try the buckshot trick in my old 06, and the vodka

thing sounds like it would up my numbers. Night two of the hunt continues,

traps 9, pellet gun 6. Besides the entertainment, I think I have a good case

with the wife for a new pellet gun. flyboy

HAMMER1DOWN · March 10, 2009, 12:17 AM

as i don't shoot many mice at home i do shoot a lot of the flying ones at work(sparrows) i work at a grain elevator and they land in a huge group right outside the front door. It makes for easy pickings and if i get bored of that i just go into the pit and under the scales with a flashlight and shoot countless numbers of mice its sadistically fun

gadgetguy1288 · March 10, 2009, 02:42 AM

22 shotshells are pretty good for em too

rem870hunter · March 10, 2009, 02:35 PM

grandad used to pop rats at work at the end of the day, with .22 shorts from a single shot rifle.

JustKev55 · March 11, 2009, 03:41 AM

I still have a very clear image of my uncle with his single shot pellet pistol made by Diana....break barrel style cocking mechanism. He'd put an aluminum pie plate with a little cornmeal in it under the woodstove in the kitchen at camp then sit in the bunk room. Usually within 10 to 15 minutes he'd have 2 or 3 targets. Can't say that he was able to put a very big dent in the mouse population but he had fun trying.

garryc · March 15, 2009, 10:22 AM

Are you guy so afeared that ya gotta use a rifle? I shot them out with my 9mm, I'm a brave SOB. Never had one that took more than two hits to put down. One night I got charged, it was like the movie "Willard". Fortunatly I had 5 18 round mags loaded up. They took me down to the last round, which I was saving for myself.

Rembrandt · March 15, 2009, 10:34 AM

Doesn't anyone use cats anymore?.....(natures mousetrap)

hogdogs · March 15, 2009, 10:57 AM

Cats spray to mark their territory. So indoor cats stink. Out doors cats poop in the flower bed and that is the only forgivable crime they commit. I will kill any and all feral cats I can get access to.
Brent

flyboy14 · March 15, 2009, 02:41 PM

Won't have a cat around, they creep me out. Besides it's much more fun to

trap, and shoot em. Since I plugged the hole in the door, and started the

extermination, I have em pretty well wiped out. I think I am down to the

last few, just hope they aren't arming themselves for a counter attack!

flyboy

March 8, 2009, 08:51 PM	#1
flyboy14 Senior Member Join Date: February 24, 2008 Location: south dakota Posts: 175	open season ferocious mice in garage Spent the morning at the range, and the afternoon in the garage. Mice chewed a hole in the rubber gasket on the bottom of my garage door. Wife set some traps, in the first hour, caught 10. Spent the rest of the day shooting the beggars with my pellet gun, and resetting the traps. Total count is at 23, 15 for the traps, and 8 for the pellet gun. 2 wounded didn't count them yet, hard to follow the blood trail, and worried they might charge, think I'll go get the big guns just to be safe. A guy will do some real strange things when there isn't anything in season. flyboy

March 8, 2009, 10:59 PM	#5
publius Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2005 Location: Mississippi/Texas Posts: 2,505	Nuthin more fun than sitting in the barn with a 12 pack and a pellet gun, awaiting the wary meese. __________________ "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself." Mark Twain

March 9, 2009, 10:41 AM	#11
fisherman66 Senior Member Join Date: August 22, 2005 Location: The Woodlands TX Posts: 4,679	We had a giant rat problem in our hunting cabin (quality not quantity). We baited half a dozen of the jumbo traps and went to sleep that evening. Every now and then we'd hear the WHACK of the trap being sprung. We all be WIDE awake after each WHACK and inspect it for remains. Sometimes we'd find a whole rat and others we'd find pieces or nothing. We all awoke in the dead of night to a blood curdling scream to find the youngest camp member with a bruised forehead and tremors. A rat had crawled into his bunk and in his sleep he thought it was his new pointer puppy. He pet the varmint until it decided to take a nibble off the tip of his finger. He screamed, threw the rat and banged his head on the bunk supports above him. We all laughed for half an hour and tried to go back to sleep. A couple hours later another jumbo SNAPPED and we had all had enough of getting up to inspect. Every 20 seconds or so we'd hear the rat's tail THUMP, THUMP, THUMP on the floor until it expired at "get up time". I don't think many of us get more than a wink of sleep that night. __________________ la plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas!

March 9, 2009, 11:10 AM	#13
12GaugeShuggoth Senior Member Join Date: September 6, 2008 Location: Virginia Posts: 534	Hopefully everyone remembers that regardless of your target, no creature should be left wounded or be the victim of badly placed shots. If you're going to wage a small rodent jihad, at least keep it a clean fight. __________________ ---Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.--- ---Enlightenment is the ability to take infinite pains--- MOLON LABE

March 9, 2009, 01:09 PM	#15
Evan Thomas Senior Member Join Date: July 7, 2008 Location: Upper midwest Posts: 5,631	hogdogs Nice-looking pellet gun. What is it? Oh, and the dog's not bad, either...

March 8, 2009, 09:16 PM	#2
cornbush Senior Member Join Date: September 29, 2008 Location: The retarded place below Idaho Posts: 1,408	Spent many nights in my uncles garage with a cheap blowgun. Loads of fun, got fair to good on hits at about 10 feet, laughs all night long. Its harder for them to get away with a dart through them!!!

March 8, 2009, 09:51 PM	#3
flyboy14 Senior Member Join Date: February 24, 2008 Location: south dakota Posts: 175	good tip, think I'll try my muzzy's out, or maybe better off with my expandable turkey heads, good practice for gobbler. Anyone got a good mouse load for a 338 win mag? flyboy

March 8, 2009, 10:44 PM	#4
Art Eatman Staff in Memoriam Join Date: November 13, 1998 Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA Posts: 24,798	Get a box of mothballs at the grocery store. Scatter a dozen or so around the floor, under any workbench or behind boxes. Repeat as they evaporate. The smell of camphor is repellent to mice and squirrels. The rubber gasket at the bottom of your garage door is probably a vegetable-based plastic. Mouse yummy. Petroleum-based plastic works far better.

March 9, 2009, 08:48 AM	#7
simonkenton Senior Member Join Date: April 25, 2008 Posts: 891	I don't have a mouse load for a .338 mag, but I do have one for a 30-06. You can load the case with a single 00 buckshot. You can use just the primer for power, or, for a magnum load, put in one grain of powder. Make sure to re-adjust scope. You will have the baddest bb gun on the block. I had some flying squirrels chewing on my dormers at night. I think they were making a nest up there. I made a little pocket, by screwing a 1x2 to the dormer, where it is out of the rain. I put 4 of these up there, on 2 dormers. Then I loaded them up with mouse bait, those blue granules you buy at the grocery store. They have had 2 nights to eat the mouse bait, I have not heard them chewing since. I don't like to kill animals unnecessarily, but, you start eating my log house, you are gonna die. I noticed, a few months ago, a mouse had built a giant nest under the lid of my 500 gallon propane tank. Pretty good home for a mouse, up off the ground, and out of the rain. Looked at it yesterday, there was the remains of one mouse visible, nobody else home. I think Mr. Snake crawled up there and ate the mice. That would be a rough day, to be a two inch mouse, and have your house invaded by a 2 foot snake.

March 9, 2009, 08:54 AM	#8
cornbush Senior Member Join Date: September 29, 2008 Location: The retarded place below Idaho Posts: 1,408	Ill be stopping at the liquor store for vodka tonight!

March 9, 2009, 10:16 AM	#10
onthejon55 Junior member Join Date: October 23, 2008 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 411	My cousins and i set up traps in my grandparents barn on christmas and sit out there and watch em get whacked! Farms kids are cruel!

March 9, 2009, 11:01 AM	#12
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	One of the coldest "Daytona Nights" that winter couldn't keep me in. Had p-nut butter smeared on the back fence in strategic locations.... Brent

March 9, 2009, 11:49 AM	#14
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	I agree sluggoth... For the occasional wounded runner I have 3 bulldogs that are all great at tracking them down. While not "soft mouthed" like a lab, I weren't eating them any way and the dogs saved me the hassle of carrying them to the dogs... Brent

March 9, 2009, 01:31 PM	#16
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	That is the Gamo Shadow 1,000... Tater (looks like a baked tater) is a "blue pit" that wasn't blue so she had little value to the breeder... Heck on a hog though! Brent

March 9, 2009, 09:07 PM	#17
flyboy14 Senior Member Join Date: February 24, 2008 Location: south dakota Posts: 175	Good tips all around, gonna try the buckshot trick in my old 06, and the vodka thing sounds like it would up my numbers. Night two of the hunt continues, traps 9, pellet gun 6. Besides the entertainment, I think I have a good case with the wife for a new pellet gun. flyboy

March 10, 2009, 12:17 AM	#18
HAMMER1DOWN Senior Member Join Date: September 26, 2008 Location: Close Enough to Canada to say "EH!!"... MT Posts: 418	as i don't shoot many mice at home i do shoot a lot of the flying ones at work(sparrows) i work at a grain elevator and they land in a huge group right outside the front door. It makes for easy pickings and if i get bored of that i just go into the pit and under the scales with a flashlight and shoot countless numbers of mice its sadistically fun

March 10, 2009, 02:42 AM	#19
gadgetguy1288 Member Join Date: January 30, 2008 Location: Elizabeth City, NC Posts: 89	22 shotshells are pretty good for em too __________________ Randy "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government, or in the case of a zombie outbreak."

March 10, 2009, 02:35 PM	#20
rem870hunter Senior Member Join Date: October 12, 2007 Location: N.J. and trying to decide what state to move to. Posts: 973	grandad used to pop rats at work at the end of the day, with .22 shorts from a single shot rifle. __________________ BEAR Bows,Remington shotguns,Marlin rifles

March 11, 2009, 03:41 AM	#21
JustKev55 Member Join Date: January 8, 2009 Posts: 66	Mouse Hunting I still have a very clear image of my uncle with his single shot pellet pistol made by Diana....break barrel style cocking mechanism. He'd put an aluminum pie plate with a little cornmeal in it under the woodstove in the kitchen at camp then sit in the bunk room. Usually within 10 to 15 minutes he'd have 2 or 3 targets. Can't say that he was able to put a very big dent in the mouse population but he had fun trying.

March 15, 2009, 10:22 AM	#22
garryc Senior Member Join Date: November 12, 2005 Posts: 2,536	Are you guy so afeared that ya gotta use a rifle? I shot them out with my 9mm, I'm a brave SOB. Never had one that took more than two hits to put down. One night I got charged, it was like the movie "Willard". Fortunatly I had 5 18 round mags loaded up. They took me down to the last round, which I was saving for myself.

March 15, 2009, 10:34 AM	#23
Rembrandt Senior Member Join Date: August 10, 2002 Posts: 2,108	Doesn't anyone use cats anymore?.....(natures mousetrap)

March 15, 2009, 10:57 AM	#24
hogdogs Staff In Memoriam Join Date: October 31, 2007 Location: Western Florida panhandle Posts: 11,069	Cats spray to mark their territory. So indoor cats stink. Out doors cats poop in the flower bed and that is the only forgivable crime they commit. I will kill any and all feral cats I can get access to. Brent

March 15, 2009, 02:41 PM	#25
flyboy14 Senior Member Join Date: February 24, 2008 Location: south dakota Posts: 175	Won't have a cat around, they creep me out. Besides it's much more fun to trap, and shoot em. Since I plugged the hole in the door, and started the extermination, I have em pretty well wiped out. I think I am down to the last few, just hope they aren't arming themselves for a counter attack! flyboy