Chipmunk Eradicator

[kcode]

The chipmunk population around here this year is the most I have seen in twenty years. They have commandeered the bird feeders so bad the birds won't even come close while they are filling their jowls with sunflower seeds. They are too quick for my dog to catch, but the torment the crap out of him. Finally, I found something that works on reducing their population. I have neighbors too close to use a real gun, so I got the next best thing. A Gamo PT80, CO2 powered .177 pellet pistol. It looks and feels just like a Beretta Cougar. So far I've taken out two chipmunks while they sit in the bird feeder on my porch deck. Beside that its fun to shoot.

 

[ridewv]

We have Wiley and Spencer to keep the vermin and rodents under control.

 

[DeadAye]

Ahhhhhh - The old Wiley & Spencer trick - Oldest trick in the book

 

[USAF385]

My dog caught a chipmunk once... he didn't know what to do with it, so he stood there for a few seconds then let it go.

How many shots does the charge last on that? I mean.. last enough to have some velocity.

 

[michael thornton]

my cats used to get them and play with them, i was going to save ones life one day and took it away from the cat, the little sucker bit the hell outa me! i let the cat have them now

 

[kcode]

How many shots does the charge last on that? I mean.. last enough to have some velocity.

Using the cheap and readily available Crosman 12 gr cylinders and cheap Crosman lead pellets, I can get around 50-60 full power shots. If you try to double tap, the second shot loses velocity quick. Gamo says the barrel get cold after each shot and suggests 15 seconds intervals for full velocity. Haven't tried any of the Gamo pellets or cylinders yet. I'm impressed with it so far.

 

[chris91899]

i like the old crosman pump rifles. u can use all kinds of different pellets or bb's and alot more velocity. although the handguns are fun to shoot and you can get off more rounds with out having to pump. i have an old crosman .22 air gun that puts a whollop on chipmunks, squirrels, and other pests. raccoons just kinda get annoyed.

i've heard rumors that chipmunks have empty co2 cylinder detectors in their arsenals of evil and will wait til you are out to attack

 

[Frank237]

Kenny...proven performer. He whacked one just this afternoon.

FN in MT

 

[charlie sherrill]

Odd that this post came up. Until the last two or three years I have never in my life (62) seen a chipmunk this far south. I started seeing them around Laurel and Ellisville,Ms. a couple of years ago. I have been seeing them around Petal,Ms. in the last couple of months and saw two of them yesterday. They haven't crossed the Leaf River into the area where I live yet that I have seen, but I won't be surprised to see them in my bird feeders and dodging my cats any day now. They're too little to eat or they wouldn't be here.

 

[enfield]

My Jack Russell wouldn't allow a rodent in the yard!

 

[007BondJamesBond007]

A 5 gallon bucket and a wood ramp with water and and floating sunflower seeds works great!

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[Chik a Boom]

I put D-Con out for mice and found a deceased chipmunk near by, so I'm guessing it's effective for them, too.

 

[CajunMouseSniper]

Kcode- I like mine too. No chipmunks this far south but it does a fine job on field mice. The 15-22 takes care of the larger varmints.

 

[BarbC]

Chipmunks have to eat too.

 

[rburg]

Every summer we venture west to St. Elmo, CO. Its a wonderful little ghost town at about 11,000 feet (it snowed there overnight.) One of their main attractions are the chipmunks that inhabit an old pile of timbers. Its not like a few, but hundreds of the chubby little critters. Grand kids love them. The more patient ones have them sitting on their lap and eating out of their hands.

Its fun to watch, and some of the more trusting little ones get so fat they waddle, not scamper. One of the caretakers of some property over on Gunnison Avenue (the back street that heads over toward Tim Cup Pass) commented to me last year that he'd sure like to have the sunflower seed concession. Its become a mandatory stop for us each trip.

 

[qennis]

my dog love to catch them...I don't know how he does it.
A few weeks ago I watched him run one back in a hole and then spend over an hour to dig it out.
Once he dug it out he brought it up in the yard to show me. when I tried to take it away from he swallowed it down in one bite, it was dead of course.

 

[cjw3]

The .22 Aguila Super Colibri works great on those little stinkers. I sit in my truck next to the woodpile and clobber them out the window.

So satisfying.

 

[WC145]

my cats used to get them and play with them, i was going to save ones life one day and took it away from the cat, the little sucker bit the hell outa me! i let the cat have them now

No good deed goes unpunished.

 

[red14]

My Jack Russell wouldn't allow a rodent in the yard!

My Dachsund-mutt mix has gotten a Squirrel, Huge Rat, and Oppossum.

 

[Faulkner]

I had a problem last year, but I pretty much eradicated the chipmonk population with my 10/22 'Possum Slayer. Have not seen one this year.

 

[CW Spook]

Years ago, I used to drive through the local cemetery on the way home from work and pop ground squirrels from the car with a Crosman 1377 pump action pistol. Now for around the yard I've graduated to an RWS 5G Magnum. The old Crosman was one heck of a good pest gun though.

 

[BarbC]

Attention chipmunks! Run to Pennsylvania! You are a protected species under the Pennsylvania Game Commission!


Unless you do damage to property, you rascally rodents.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

What do they taste like ????? I've never seen one in the wild down here.

 

[woodsltc]

Sometimes you need to call in the professionals to get the job done.

Don

 

[Gebe]

That is great Don! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[rburg]

I used to drive through the local cemetery on the way home from work and pop ground squirrels from the car

Interesting story. My now deceased grandfather (he passed away in 1978) used to play in one of the Colorado Railway bands. I'm guessing early 1900s. At one of their stops he was watching the ground squirrels playing in a local cemetery. Another one came up out of the ground with a scrap of clothing in its mouth. He was kind of repulsed. He watched for a bit longer and it repeated its stunt, going down in the ground and surfacing with another bit of cloth.

Because of that incident, he insisted he be cremated when he died. The story was always part of family lore when I was growing up.

 

[JamesArthur60]

Attention chipmunks! Run to Pennsylvania! You are a protected species under the Pennsylvania Game Commission!


Unless you do damage to property, you rascally rodents.

If I could direct my Ohioan chipmunks to move eastward to PA I'd be a happy home owner. Here, they burrow along the house foundation...everywhere. A neighborhood cat has caught a couple. Unfortunately, he must have missed school the day the instructor taught: this is how you kill and eat a varmint. I've watched him play with it until the chipmunk figures out this cat is stupid, and it runs away to dig more holes. I've tried the gas sticks (be careful the fumes can seep into your house through tiny cracks), coyote urine and poison pellets. They are still here.

 

[srsmyth]

I use a small (Have-a-Heart) trap for them with sunflower seeds. It works every time, but then you need to re-locate the little buggers.

 

[DeadAye]

I've tried the gas sticks (be careful the fumes can seep into your house through tiny cracks), coyote urine and poison pellets. They are still here.

What are you launching your poison pellets with? Maybe time for a scope?

 

[JcMack]

I have these Chipmunks in my yard. Cute huh?