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If you just want to shoot something.....wal-mart sells all kinds of ammo. You just have to be 18. I admit there is a certain satisfaction involved in watching the feathers go "poof". You could always shoot it, then put out the snakes to keep any others from moving in and when the cops show up, tell em it was your car backfiring cause you were tweaking the carbs......"My neighbors must have been confused"
 
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Several years back I had a Squirrel get in my basement. I tried everything to get him out. Left windows open, tried shoeing him out with a broom, live trap, etc etc... I finally went to K Mart and bought a CO2 powered pellet pistol. It was a nasty, close range job and I don't want to have to shoot anything out of a basement ceiling(floor joysts) again.
But it worked, and was quiet (relativly)
but as long as you're going with a true firearm, I'd opt for a semi auto shotgun! load it to the max, and blast away! just have binabox ideling at the curb to make a hasty getaway.
It's be just like an episode of Gangbusters!
"yea seee, now you've gone and made Jaybird mad! yea, yea."
 
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Years ago, in the early 80's we lived on the farm in Tennessee while we both were finishing our masters' degrees (short hiatus from the Army)...Jerri had a garden...guy on the farm next door had chickens...just when her tomatoes started ripening, the chickens started pecking...I went to him & asked him to gather them up that night when they went to roost & to put them in a coop....he said he would & I explained the consequences if they came into Jerri's garden again....early next morning when I got up - yep, you guessed it: chickens in the garden....shotgun in hand I rolled out the bedroom door, low crawled to within range, jumped up & attacked....knocked on his door & handed him a handfull of dead chickens, feet first..."Here's your breakfast. Want some fresh tomatoes to go with them?" That night he collected up his remaining chickens & put them in a coop!

It was good practice for me as I had to report back to the Army after we finished our studies since Uncle Sam was footing the bill.
 
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Hello Janel,
As I catch up...I have a two-word solution: Dick Cheney.
That is, if he's in country at present.
Smits
 
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Tony said:
knocked on his door & handed him a handfull of dead chickens, feet first..."Here's your breakfast. Want some fresh tomatoes to go with them?" That night he collected up his remaining chickens & put them in a coop!
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Woulda been my solution as well.

Nice. Neat. Right to th' point.
 
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jaybird said:
Walmart has bullets?

I don't shop at Walmart. How about Target?

Wait, are you telling me you can just go to Walmart and buy bullets???
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A "target" is what you shoot at, unless you live in the country, then you shoot at tin cans. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/whistle.gif

Wal-mart here has bullets, and guns too! Any good sporting goods store will have what you need. Google your zip code and click on "find businesses", big brother will help you find bullets!
 
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drooartz said:
Janel -- in Utah, at least, I was able a few years ago to buy a 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun and ammo at the local WalMart. They had it on sale. No kidding. Probably the only thing I've ever bought at WalMart that still works.

-Drew (Liberal gun owner with a 4x4, I confound the pollsters...)
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Laws vary State to State. Utah being less restrictive, NY, probably the most.
 
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You can get shotguns in NY at Wally world (or at least you could the last time I was in one). Rifles too. Handguns are a bit of a no no, but the others, as our Antipodean brethren would say - No Worries Mate.

That said, I'm not in NYC - they are a bit stricter there...
 
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NOT POLITICAL...have you noticed, how in so many different areas, important lessons from history get forgotten. Something that's so burning at some point, so important, people band together for a common good, and then a 20 year generation, or two, later, the group founded, or the remnants of it, to further the cause, actually espouses something approaching the antithesis of the original intent?
 
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I'm a liberal, democrat who loves to shoot things. I own several guns (from my great grandaddy's bolt action 22 to a Smith and Wesson 357.) I'm not a hunter (Sorry 2 years as a Game Warden and you couldn't pay me anough to go out during deer season with 2.5 million drunks with high powered rifles) plus I don't care for wild game. It is interesting that we are seeing less attempts to limit the possession of firearms and instead we are seeing more and more restrictions on the ammunition. Harder to buy, harder to find, more states controlling where and when it could be sold. Hmmm. new tactic???
 
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This thread is starting to veer, ever so gently, towards the political side of the issue, so I think that now's a good time to lock 'er up. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
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