What is the best khukuri to defend agaist marmots?

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It has been a while since we have had one of these threads; but, this article was just too good to pass up:

"Residents say the oversized rodents are swarming through the 75-unit development of manufactured homes near the airport of this Eastern Washington town, burrowing under homes, fouling front porches with their droppings and _ according to some unconfirmed accounts _ attacking people."

Read more here:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/30/D8HUAFB00.html

What was the name of that old b-movie classic: The Attack of the Killer Shrews?

Thumbnails photos from the movie are shown here:
http://www.archive.org/movies/thumbnails.php?identifier=The_Killer_Shrews

n2s
 
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The first time I saw marmots up close I was hiking on Mt. Ranier. They looked like little bears. They'd stay by the path in hopes of being fed something from the eco friendly tourists. It was strange.
I wouldn't want to get bit by one.



munk
 
Marmots are tough for their size .
I have seen them with six perforations (euphemistic term) in their body and suffering many other corporal indiginties . This guy was :still standing: as they say .
 
I'd have to say the new Himalayan sword. Good reach and fast with a good point.
 
What is the best khukuri to defend agaist marmots?

That's easy...a shotgun!

Also unconfirmed was an account that a resident got badly bitten after reaching into a water tank to remove a marmot that only appeared to be dead.

That's kinda like the Jeff Foxworthy story about the guy that got his nipple bitten off by a beaver!
 
Odd.

Read the posts, thought about a .22-250, did a search with the word "marmot" added, and found....just killing. Really disturbing to me.

Death just to kill something up on a mountainside.
 
Here in Montana there are colonies of Richardson's groundsquirrels, which the locals call gophers, and every spring they are shot by young and old. The farmers don't like them, the ranchers don't like them, I don't think even the ndns like them; their numbers get pushed back and every spring they amount a new attack.

The general concensus is we would rather do the predation than have rattlesnakes.

In Malta there is a Spring shoot; farmers invite townspeople to anihilate the rodents.

munk
 
Yummmm , ground squirrel stew !

Driving through the prairies you can,t help but drive over prairie dogs . Funny I never think of too many as a plague and just an overabudance that could be harvested .

I was part of a marmot archery tournament . Great fun for everyone but the marmots .
 
http://www.omenaheights.com/deadly_eyes_movie_review.htm

A sooooooooooooooooo bad movie

The premise: Steroid infested corn rotting in a port creates rats the size of small dogs, literally. This is a big rat 'roid rage movie with wiener dogs playing the part of rats with anatomically incorrect teeth and 'deadly eyes' peering from hairy rat costumes.

Giant 'roid ragin' rats living in mountains of grain full of steroids are rendered homeless when a health department inspector (Scatman Crouthers) orders it burned. The rats migrate to a suburban home occupied by unsupervised high school students who are drinking beer, smoking pot, and listening to loud music. The rats are obviously drawn to this specific abode by the music of The Chuck McDermott Band.

Lets see. Giant wiener dog steriod-enhanced musical zombie rats.

Forget knives, khuks and guns. I say we take off and nuke them from orbit!
 
I took a cat . A big well fed cat . I put it down in front of a muskrat . One look and that cat decided a home in the hills was the way to go .
 
Kevin the grey said:
I took a cat . A big well fed cat . I put it down in front of a muskrat . One look and that cat decided a home in the hills was the way to go .
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Maybe you needed a skinny starving cat;)
 
I don't know which khuk would be best, but if somebody wants to round up the rampaging marmots I'd be willing to haul 'em to Florida with me when I go, them gators is hungry down there. ;) :D

Sarge
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
I don't know which khuk would be best, but if somebody wants to round up the rampaging marmots I'd be willing to haul 'em to Florida with me when I go, them gators is hungry down there. ;) :D

Sarge
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That's what cats are for!!!!! :)

n2s
 
not2sharp said:
That's what cats are for!!!!! :)

n2s
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:thumbup: Yup, they might as well be good for something more than eatin' and crappin' and clawin' up furniture.

Sarge
 
I can see you have never known a good cat. I had an awesome cat named Gloria who kept us mouse free for years. She never clawed up anything, ate whatever you gave her (if she didn't like it she just went out and killed something), and always used the litter box. Fantastic cat. I would take walks in the woods and Gloria tagged along. Died at age 14 and I will never get another because it would not be fair to the new cat to live in Gloria's shadow.
 
I've had several cats like that, Shadow, and still miss old Jake. He was a great friend.



munk
 
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