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: I feel pathetic
: Phil_B July 25, 2009, 03:00:40 AM

I feel pathetic , 1000's of dollars in equipment with more on the way countless hours practicing. And I have to resort to trapping my nemesis The garden raider GROUND HOG. This week I had a tomato (first one of the season) starting to ripen ,and with no sighs of my enemy I said to my self Ill let this one ripen one more day. I come home from work the other day and went straight to the garden to check on my first tomato and MF its gone MF MF MF I was so pi$$ed off I was thinking of getting out the rototiller and doing away with the garden. But I did not, got the shovel and filled in the hole. Came home from work yesterday and the MF had time to dig 2 holes under the fence. So I just got a trap , That MF has all the time advantage on his side and I cant stand loosing to a rodent    :0  :0  :0  :0  :0

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: JOHNNY QUEST July 25, 2009, 03:31:14 AM

I hear ya Phil.. While the cats away, the mice will play.....

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: TCups July 25, 2009, 03:38:07 AM

Well, the marauding fur-bearer (MF)  may need a Marauder air rifle to be dispatched properly and efficiently, but I see you already thought of that.  So, don't feel bad.  Just keep ordering more air rifles.  You will get the marauding fur-bearers eventually, along with a nice collection of air rifles.  And when you feel yourself getting down again, repeat the mantra:

Airrrrrrrrrrr gunzzzzzzzzzzzz . . .  etc.
 :D

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: DanoInTx July 25, 2009, 04:04:12 AM

Don't feel bad, in the 3-4 years that I've been airgunning the only critters I've killed have been with my car,...oh yea, shot at some ants that crawled across my targets too:)

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: daveshoot July 25, 2009, 04:16:41 AM

I have a particular Rat that is my nemesis. Mommy is enjoying the Rat That Is Smarter Than Me. This little plague-bearer has almost run over my foot 2-3 times on the back porch- in the early morning hours- while I sit smoking with a loaded safety-off P3 in my hand. It is there and gone like a ghost. I hate it. I hate all rats, but I hate this one most of all. When your g'hog runs past you at 1m distance, 3 times, and lives to laugh about it, then you can feel pathetic. I finally put out a Victor trap with peanut butter, which never fails, but it an admission of defeat... it sprang the trap and ate the pb. I am going to so kill this SOB someday...

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: Bogey July 25, 2009, 07:24:46 AM

Take heart.  All is not lost.   Hold Fast.    Your not pathetic....your Frustrated.   That is according to Webster's Dictionary.  So just remember the next time you spot your varmint friends....kill them all.

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: shadow July 25, 2009, 08:45:14 AM

I could have flown in and just camped out in your garden buddy, I'm am the veggie, I am the tomato, come to me you little ...........WHACK!!!! hehehe. Ed

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: Phil_B July 25, 2009, 09:30:54 AM

Thanks Guys !!!

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: Skip July 27, 2009, 03:09:06 PM

Hang in there and don't give up. Last year I didn't get one tomato the G hogs cleaned me out. Thats when the war started, a dozen hogs later there aint too many around any more. I'm glad to say tomatos are doing fine.  Skip-