Mr.Jingle Balls

trick to useing a 22 on a gator is to hit the base of the head from behind. That to my experience is the only soft spot in a gators topside......Drew
 
I was going for the eye since I couldn't get around behind him. It was about midnight and he was a good 20-30 yards away in the middle of the canal with just a flashlight lighting him up. I was pretty proud of that shot.:)
 
hope jingle balls shows up tonight........this will be night 3! i think we're going to try peanut butter tonight.
 
drew1095hc said:
trick to useing a 22 on a gator is to hit the base of the head from behind. That to my experience is the only soft spot in a gators topside......Drew
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^True story right there. I drilled one in the side on a bowhunt and the guide killed it with an arrow through the area right at the base of the skull...
 
better?

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just smeared peanut butter all over the fence rail (you know the one i can't actually see!)

here jingle...jingle...jingle.......pssst pssst pssst...mr balls! lol

the standoff........night 3... i wonder if Mr. Jingle balls is on a stolen blackberry texting all his friends? lol
 
MRS. . .you make us proud lol, I was waiting for a "this is the way I do it and if you got a problem I got a foot for your ass" response. If you like pistols that much you should look into a suppressed .22 pistol, lots of fun and just as quiet as a pellet gun.
 
Billy516 said:
I'm going to offer a different opinion here...I too used to be a possum hater and had no problem with letting my dogs have at 'em. After all, they're just big nasty rats right?

Well last summer I had my attitude changed when we actually rescued two tiny orphans (my Am Bulldog actually found one and brought it over to me like a good field spaniel!) and in the process learned a bit. They are actually very beneficial to have around and will control rodent populations as well as eat all kinds of other little nasties. Now, I'm much more careful about letting the dogs out in the yard after dark and if they manage to get one (they don't put up much of a fight before playing dead) I just make them "leave it" and hustle them in. Usually, the possum "wakes up" a little later, unhurt and ambles off. I have definitely noticed that when I don't see possums around, the rats will move in and when the possums are present, no rats.

So, with that said, do what you will, but keep in mind they are actually kind of good to have around if you can get past their ugly mugs. These days, I'm much more inclined to shoot a feral cat than a possum.

Anyway, here's some pics of my daughter and her friend with the two orphans. The other pic is one of them all cuddled up with a stuffed animal. We were able to get them stabilized (they were pretty much on death's doorstep when we found them) and then got them to a wildlife rehabber.
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possibly thte cuttest possum footage ever.
 
Hey Shotgunners, what happened with the PITA critters, did you end up getting 'em? Was just thinking about it and wondered what happened.
 
When I was 14 my parents had close to 100 chickens, turkeys, etc. in a very large pen that had a chicken wire roof. After about a year we would be woken up in the middle of the night by a bunch of squawking and find several chickens that were decapitated. This went on for a couple of weeks and we could never see what was killing the chickens. My father was working out of town so my mom and I would take turns checking on them every night and I even stayed up all night a couple of times but on those nights nothing happened.

Finally one night my mom came into my room and woke me up to tell me that she heard something outside. I grabbed my trusty Ruger .22LR and eased open the back door of the house just as she turned on the lights near the chickens. I couldn't tell what it was but something was on the roof of the pen so I fired all 10 rounds in the direction of the animal (Note: Our house was in the country and no one was around us for miles). Anyhow, after everything settled down I got a flashlight and went to the pen to see if I hit anything. When I got there I found one dead bobcat and 5 dead chickens and 1 dead turkey! I hated shooting the bobcat because I think they are pretty cool, but when I went to bury him I noticed that his body was almost completely covered in mange (I think that is how you spell it) so I didn't feel so bad. As far as the 5 chickens and turkey that I shot are concerned ... my mom thought that the bobcat had killed them and I thought it would be best to leave it at that :)
 
GregFL said:
When I was 14 my parents had close to 100 chickens, turkeys, etc. in a very large pen that had a chicken wire roof. After about a year we would be woken up in the middle of the night by a bunch of squawking and find several chickens that were decapitated. This went on for a couple of weeks and we could never see what was killing the chickens. My father was working out of town so my mom and I would take turns checking on them every night and I even stayed up all night a couple of times but on those nights nothing happened.

Finally one night my mom came into my room and woke me up to tell me that she heard something outside. I grabbed my trusty Ruger .22LR and eased open the back door of the house just as she turned on the lights near the chickens. I couldn't tell what it was but something was on the roof of the pen so I fired all 10 rounds in the direction of the animal (Note: Our house was in the country and no one was around us for miles). Anyhow, after everything settled down I got a flashlight and went to the pen to see if I hit anything. When I got there I found one dead bobcat and 5 dead chickens and 1 dead turkey! I hated shooting the bobcat because I think they are pretty cool, but when I went to bury him I noticed that his body was almost completely covered in mange (I think that is how you spell it) so I didn't feel so bad. As far as the 5 chickens and turkey that I shot are concerned ... my mom thought that the bobcat had killed them and I thought it would be best to leave it at that :)
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Man, you just scared the shit outta the chupacabra and it dropped the bobcat out of its mouth when it ran off.:D
 
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