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Title: Shot fired!!
Post by: Bob F. on October 10, 2007, 05:12:23 PM
Had to shoot just now! Couldn't find the cat. He's a great mouser, brings home proof all the time. Fed him in the basement about 1830. Guess he went out with the dogs. 2100 the phone rang while I was in the kitchen (good fluorescent light) Saw movement out of the corner of my eye, danged mouse apparently healthy/ unwounded, scampered across floor in adjoining dining room. Went out and called the cat, right! Went and checked the bed, no cat. Figured he'd get the mouse later. Sat at 'puter a while and watched the Outdoor Channel at the same time. Went back to kitchen and mouse scampered behind waste basket. Time for drastic measures. Loaded a shot shell into the .22 auto pistol (S&W 422). Mousie stick head out from under dogs' water bowl, saw me, ducked back. I stepped behind the fridge, peaked out just a little and in a few seconds mousie stuck head and shoulders out. BANG! Dead mouse at 10 feet, no blood, no damage to house, not even the heavy plastic dog bowl or the cheap asphalt tile. Don't think I'd trust 'em to drop a large rat, though.

Did have glasses on, not sure what the .22 "ratshot" would do. Should have grabbed ears but they were in the basement. Glad it wasn't a forced entry and my .357! Maybe the adrenline would have saved the hearing.

Could have posted on THR but too much of a non-event, no sense of humor over there. Dang, I could have used a wax bullet in the .38! Never though of that, not near as loud but likely more blood!

Oh, the things we do for entertainment!

Stay safe.
Bob
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Manedwolf on October 10, 2007, 05:13:51 PM
I would tend to use the Crosman pellet gun for that... O_o
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Thor on October 10, 2007, 05:17:15 PM
With my luck, I would have taken out the coils in the fridge. That's why I use glue traps.
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Paddy on October 10, 2007, 05:18:54 PM
You sliced the pie, cleared the room and neutralized all threats.  Didja have a Surefire hanging off the end of that .22?

That would be waaayyyy tacticool.  laugh
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Phyphor on October 10, 2007, 06:22:33 PM
What?!?!

You mean you didn't hit him with a 3-round burst from your silenced MP5k?

Tell me you at *least* duct taped some trauma plates on!!!   grin
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Perd Hapley on October 10, 2007, 07:05:17 PM
MP5?  Please.  Real professionals go with the Special Weapons 5.  Poser.  rolleyes
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: HankB on October 11, 2007, 03:39:14 AM
Reminds me of a commercial I saw on TV back in October '77 when I was deer hunting in Iowa . . .

I think it was Slim Pickins (Remember him?) in a shack dressed like a cowboy . . . a rat scurries across the floor and he pulls out his sixgun and starts blasting it.

Multiple gunshots ring out, splinters fly, and the rat gets away.

Slim then turns to the camera and says something like "I don't git as many of them varmints as I used to  . . . that's why I  use DE-CON Rat & Mouse Poison . . . "

Funny as heck . . . and so timely, since we DID have mice in our cabin!  grin

(They just don't make commercials like that any more . . . )
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: 280plus on October 11, 2007, 03:46:49 AM
Damn, I wish I could get away with shootin' at mice at MY house!  angry

 cheesy
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Mabs2 on October 11, 2007, 04:56:33 AM
The only problem I see:  One shot.  I'd have slide locked on him.  What's important is going back to the wife and kids at the end of the snack run.
Title: Re: Shot fired!!
Post by: Antibubba on October 11, 2007, 05:21:06 PM
*obligatory mouse gun joke inserted*