Last night about 1:00am I woke up to go to the bathroom. As I flipped the light switch on my perephial vision picked up movement in the floor. It took me a second to realize it was a mouse.
This was not just any mouse; although he was very small he has been robbing and pilaging our house for the last week, despite my best efforts to trap him.I’m telling ya, is a houdini.
Anyway, across the floor he races for cover at mach 1, latches on to the bunched up shower curtain and disappears ,….only to reappear seconds later running across the top of the curtain rod….until he got to the other side of the shower….then he retreated about 1/3 of the way back and froze……
So…, there we were, me in my underwear and him with his big bug eyes and a O’ sh!t look on his face just standing there staring each other down like two warriors about to do battle.
Every time I started to move one way he would counter by moving the other, as if to say I’m coming around ya when I get an opening ! I stayed motionless…..
I knew I had to hold my position or he was gonna make a break for the closet where I’d never be able to track him cause the Wife’s got too many shoes in there,….. and he knew it.
We had us a mexican standoff…..
Thinking fast, I called out to my wife who was sleeping, ….Honey, go get the boys bb gun, QUICK!.
Being a good wife ( with a lotta shoes) she raced out of the room and returned with …..the Crossman 760 loaded and pumped up ten times( I love a good country woman ).
The little robber was getting nervous now, I think he sensed the game was about to change….
There is probably 7′ between us when I took a deep breath, settled the sights and exhaled half way out and started slowly squeezing the trigger………….
DINK !……. Right in the side of the neck…………………..
he went down……..and landed in the shower………….a few kicks and then motionless
The ordeal was over….. I got some toilet paper scooped him up and flushed him,washed the shower out, used the bathroom and went to bed.
Sometimes ya get lucky…..
dug – I could’nt make this up if I tried
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Make sure you get your small game dinking license punched down at the inspection station.
I can't believe you didn't proudly pose for the camera, mouse tail in one hand and weapon in the other.
Probably such a bloody event you didn't want to offend the lassies - yeah, that's it!
Don't forget to carve a notch in the stock
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Traps are less dramatic but don't make the wife get up in the middle of the night. Around here that's a major plus.
You could also get a cat.
http://www.fugly.com/pictures/15141/sneak_attack.html
you could've encased him in a block of Lucite and set him on the sink as a warning to all his little friends
Yer sposed ta eat what ya shoot...
A real country woman would had a frying pan on the stove and a filet knife out...
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I have Transcended the need for Pants....
oooohhhhmmmmmm......
Crossman 760, 10 pumps, 7 feet? No sport! Did the bb go thru him?
Not sure if it was a pass thru or a ricochet ,but I did find the bb in the shower :)
dug
>A real country woman wouldA real country woman woulda shot it herself.
Chasin' mouse at 1:00 AM?
Uh-uh. Ida done my bizness and returned to bed.
He woulda been there in the morning.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
Congratulations! I've plinked a few, but never in the house, too tight.
Did have one when we first moved in, probably the end of a long line. I built slowly. Lots of critters started life here, at least 3 generations of birds in the shower soap dish.
Anyhow, shortly after our CO we heard scurrying sounds on the bedroom ceiling (which is simply a ceiling inside our larger box). Amplified by the drywall, hadda do something.
Grabbed Fleabag (well-earned name), our dim but effective feline drop-off, and threw him up there. Oh, yeah...
Rustle, rustle, THUD. Silence.
3 hrs later he awoke and squawked that he wanted down. Finally earned his keep. Good thing, all I keep in the house is a shotgun and a hunting rifle.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
you know that illegal, hunting at night, without a small animal license..Haga su trabajo de fricken
We need Governor Pete's opinion on this !
Greg
Yeah, and with an electric light too.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
He wasn't hunting, he was defending his home from an intruder.
Yeah, another "armed citizen" article for the NRA rag.
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin
but if the intruder was there to say he was sorry, then the death penatly was wrong and you suppose to forgive and give him a job..Haga su trabajo de fricken