I've posted before about her shooting her trusty little .22 and especially shooting chipmunks. Bear in mind that many she has shot this year have been really little guys. The count right now is at 74 and the are still coming. Must be a bunch of horny chipmunks out there.
i wasnt gonna do a full mount....just the head mounted to a mini plaque,and cut their little paws off and mount them too bent up at a 90° angle for key hangers.figure in a few years i could have 4-500 lining the walls of my shop!!!
I was thinking that also. It is all that "mounting" that is causing the problem. Over 70 chippies is a huge number. They are getting food for somewhere. Dennis, you need a Maine Coon Cat that you can let outside. That will knock down the chippies numbers. I can't have an outside cat here. They roam too far away from the house and become food.
Judy is a dead-eye, but I'm gainin on her! I've been teaching the local chippies my now famous "chippy nap" technique. 'Bout 30 of 'em have been learned so far. So weird though.....none have woken back up.
Really kind of strange, there is no Chipmunks around here never saw one. One more groundhog I know of, gotta kill yet
Learn ''im my napping technique, then it's more of a suicide thing. Oh, groundhog...technique won't work.
I name the ones around the house.... Occasionally feed them some peanuts. The coolest mount I saw was a slab with a pair of chipmunks playing baseball. Little tiny ball tiny mitt and tiny bat.
first to Judy for her skills... next question is where are your natural predators? foxes, coy dogs, birds of prey... I see and hear lots of owls and darn few chipmunk around here... But that darn woodchuck has got a date one night when he pops his head up at the wrong time!
We do have them and the coyotes usually come up for the dead ones. Hawks get a few. We have few fox anymore but did get a couple on trail cam lately. When I go around the place either on foot or most of the time it is on the atv, I see dozens of them all over the place. I think they have actually gotten worse since we cut off that big bunch of pines. Not sure why though. Got rid of some red squirrels that way.
I used to control the gray squirrels over the winter with a 17 cal air rifle. It was a twice a week walk and usually caught 3-4. Funny thing was that I noticed a couple times that the resident Red Fox was sitting under a tree 300 yards away watching me. I always dropped the prey in the same area, and they were never there the next day. Dinner bell theory exemplified.
strange summer- haven't seen fox or yotes at all, cleaned out the ground squirrels only seen 1 in the last 3 weeks and that was only for second. Alaska sables haven't been around either, owls are hooting in the back in the evening. No Deer track and no rubs so far either. Must be too much activity with the new neighbors.
