What caliber for mice?

[wmenorr67]

Woman Shoots Herself While Trying to Kill Mice

POTTER VALLEY, Calif.   A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person.

The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's officials said.

But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up in his coin pocket.

Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.

The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,378142,00.html

[Manedwolf]

Should have used a mousegun.

And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?

[MechAg94]

I figured she had it cocked when she dropped it. 

Use the right tool for the job.  A cheap straw broom would have been better.

[wmenorr67]

Remember a time my uncle pop an mouse in the house with a bb gun.

[charby]

Some sort of squeaker round.

[Tallpine]

.27 wildcat round 

[The Annoyed Man]

To stay serious, werent .22 BB/CB caps developed partly for use in indoor hunting?
Also, there's always 6mm Flobert. I'd like one of those .

[HankB]

On TV in central Iowa circa 1977 they were running a commercial that began with gunfire, and a mouse dodging the gunfire, as splinters flew around him before he darted into a hole in the wall.

Camera panned back, and there's Slim Pickins holding a smoking Peacemaker and saying something along the lines of "Now that I'm gettin' along in years, I have a harder time hittin' them varmints like I used to . . . that's why I use D-CON Mouse Poison."

Funny thing is, at the time we saw the commercial, my Dad, some of our buddies, and I were in a hunting cabin that DID have a mouse problem!

.22 handguns with #12 birdshot worked . . .

[The Annoyed Man]

And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?

A pre-lock S&W.

[MechAg94]

Did they have those in 44 mag?  Or is it just that the article got the caliber wrong?  That can't be the case though. 

[Standing Wolf]

And what sort of .44 mag doesn't have a transfer bar?
A pre-lock S&W.

Wrong. Smith & Wesson revolvers have had transfer bars for decades. They don't go bang when dropped, unless, of course, Bubba has been doing a little kitchen table gunsmithing.

99.999% of the time, "I dropped it and it went bang" is a lie.

[RaspberrySurprise]

She probably tried to grab it when it fell and yanked the trigger.

[Perd Hapley]

Remember a time my uncle pop an mouse in the house with a bb gun.

My daddy kilt one that-a-way.

[Tallpine]

There was (is?) a summer cow camp in Colorado made of logs, with a sleeping loft above.  Someone in their inestimable wisdom had put in a ceiling of masonite to cover the beams beneath the 2nd floor planking.

As nature would have it, mice found the space between the ceiling and the floor to be a comfortable habitat.

There were bullet holes in the ceiling.  One of the cowboys told me that some sojourners at the cabin would shoot at the mice with their pistols, aiming at the sound of little feet scurrying on the top of the ceiling.

It was hard to get to sleep upstairs while that was going on 

[LadySmith]

What a comedy/tragedy of errors.
I prefer a quieter and more ecologically sound method to solving my mice problems...
Snakes. 

[Tallpine]

What a comedy/tragedy of errors.
I prefer a quieter and more ecologically sound method to solving my mice problems...
Snakes. 

Do your snakes sleep at the foot of your bed, and purr when you pet them ?