Think I finally got banned Over there!

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Rat shooting and bear watching were common passtimes growing up in my town. True, there were a few dump fires from guys putting a bottle og gas and lit candle in the rat area, waiting for lots to show up and them popping the glass and having a napalm party, but it was a pretty common thing to teach a kid how to shoot there.
 

david s

Well-Known Member
We moved from Florida to New Jersey in 1967. We once went camping in Pennsylvania and went to a dump to see the bears. Same basic set up aim the cars headlights at the dump and wait for the black bears to show up. It wasn't like only one showed up more like a good salmon run area in Alaska with the brown bears all lined up, bunches! I never would have thought to take a date rat shooting at the dump. Would be a pretty good indicator as to how things might go though by her reaction to even the suggestion.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
Seems like that'd be a keeper if she asked when she could go again .

I guess there were probably rats on our dumps out west but the guys had a Saturday night coyote thing in Hawthorne . See , on Saturday morning the deli , meat counter etc sell by's got dumped so by 6-7 pm the dump had the funk on reeling in scavengers for 3-4 miles down wind . Actually I wish we could have shot ravens , for a while they were bullying the seagulls off the dump and at the peak outnumbered them about 4-5 to 1 . F&G had an official kill number during a 2 yr population adjustment of 337 in Mineral county being removed by shooting . It was a good start , could have done with another 100 or so gone .
 

mattw

Active Member
We always had barn cats when I was a kid... they got fed well, loved on and hung out with us in the shop. We had one old gal cat that took on a coon one time! She was injured but the coon was dead!
 

creosote

Well-Known Member
Now that's a tuff cat.
Our first coon encounter;
we knew the cat was a gonner.
There was a four inch chunk fur missing, along with looking REALLY bad.
She was old, and figured she'd had a good life. I got the 1911, put it to the back of her head. Pulled the trigger.

I couldn't believe it when she took off running. She came back three days later. The #68 went through the center of her neck. Didn't do any damage. I got pictures. Unbelievable.

Well I wasn't going to take a cat that had two bullet holes and half of its side missing to the vet, so I got the shotgun, shovel and dug a hole.
When I took her out of the carrier, she started rubbing up against my leg, and purring. $@&%$!# I couldn't do the dirty deed.
She went to the vet and lived another few years.
The second, was a tabby barn cat.
Her paw got chewed up so bad it was folding under, and was walking on the top of it. The vet put a plastic cast on it.
She stayed inside while it healed. No one thought it would work.
That dang cat ended up sleeping on my bed, and being good friends.

She was pretty mean. Didn't like to much affection. But would sleep in your lap if you didn't pet her.

Worked out good cuz I don't get along with cats to much.
I spent four days, three nights in the hospital from a cat bite. (My sisters)
Got bit in the wrist. I had ink marks up to my elbow, marking the poison. Nothing to fool with.
Mark
 

flint4570

Member
I am not a cat person at all, I am a dog guy but that kind of behavior to small animal is horrible. they are in need of a real whipping I have meet people like that and they are some kind of crazy I avoid them like the plague.