Anybody have a...

[BPTactical]

Very strong and accurate yet quiet BB/pellet rifle? Scoped hopefully.
We are having an issue with prairie dogs getting into my and my neighbors yards. I spoke with animal control and as long as I am not discharging a firearm I have the green light to eliminate the dawgs command.
With extreme prejudice.
I really can't afford to invest in one at this time and my 40 year old Crosman pistol isn't getting it done.
(no Randy, you can't come and play)

Or any other ideas to eradicate the little bastards in a lawful manner.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Yep, I've got a Gamo with a scope or Daisy 853C with aperture sights. Only question is, your cops don't consider an air rifle a firearm? Ours do ... :(

[Great-Kazoo]

have a bolt action 22 with subs, and sound reduction muzzle device.

[TEAMRICO]

Rat Traps?

[buffalobo]

Tanzmanian devil and a sling shot, 12 pack beer.

Tell the neighbors to keep small dogs and kids in the house. Drown the Taz when done.

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[Limited GM]

Remington 510 with CBee caps. Almost as quiet as my other legal means.

[newracer]

I am a little far but I have one that would work.

[Irving]

The CCI quiet rounds are just as quiet as a suppressor out of a rifle length barrel. I did get one that wasn't subsonic though. That was an unpleasant surprise.

Otherwise, regular snares might work, but I'm not sure what you'd bait them with.

[sniper7]

Suppressed nail gun. Itsmazing

[blackford76]

A lawn chair, stocked cooler, and 2' steel leader for you favorite fishing pole. Set out the leader like a snare, sit back and enjoy a couple barley pops, wait for the little buggers to step in the "snare", act like you are setting the hook and enjoy! May need a baseball bat to help get them off the line.[Beer]

[Irving]

A lawn chair, stocked cooler, and 2' steel leader for you favorite fishing pole. Set out the leader like a snare, sit back and enjoy a couple barley pops, wait for the little buggers to step in the "snare", act like you are setting the hook and enjoy! May need a baseball bat to help get them off the line.[Beer]

That's not a bad idea...

[cstone]

Dawg fishing?

I vote for a wrist rocket and some ball bearings. Follow that up with some poisoned peanut butter down the holes.

[WETWRKS]

Be very careful with that. A lot of cities have created new rules about what constitutes as a firearm. In some places anything that propels a projectile by any means is considered a firearm...thus even a nerf gun is considered a firearm. Then they hit you with discharge of a firearm within city limits.

[The Rat]

This, in .22. http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Benjamin_Trail_NP_Nitro_Piston_air_rifle_combo/2049

[Wulf202]

how big is the town? My dad used to fuel up the mower and pipe the exhaust down the hole. Started about 7am, refueled it around lunch, let it run until sun down.

Recently he's learned about propane weed burners, unlit, stuffed down the hole then a LONG distance lighter. Apparently 10lb of propane does a serious amount of damage when it gets sent down a gopher hole.

I have a collection of connibear traps, and a pellet gun.

[brutal]

PM inbound.

[275RLTW]

1/2 lb kenisticks and plenty of det cord work for you? It's not a firearm...

[ChunkyMonkey]

1/2 lb kenisticks and plenty of det cord work for you? It's not a firearm...

Nope, that's called a YouTube episode.

[GilpinGuy]

There are those smoke-bomb things that you light and roll down the holes to eradicate them. It releases a toxic gas that does it's thing. I did work at a pipeline facility years ago that had boxes of them for prairie dogs. I have no idea where to get them though.

[gnihcraes]

bubble gum balls. Drop a few down each hole. They eat them and can't poop them out. (so I hear)

[MrPrena]

bubble gum balls. Drop a few down each hole. They eat them and can't poop them out. (so I hear)


Cruel but funny.

[MrPrena]

I wonder if this is legal in CO or cities/towns.

RODENATOR!


http://youtu.be/CgztUzqaL3E

[buffalobo]

I wonder if this is legal in CO or cities/towns.

RODENATOR!


http://youtu.be/CgztUzqaL3E
Works good, lots of fun. Too expensive.

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[buffalobo]

Make your own. Cheaper and even more fun.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4CNsRwtFy8

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[MrPrena]

Make your own. Cheaper and even more fun.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4CNsRwtFy8

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Saw that footage as well. Inconvenience is a factor, but at a cost of 5% of actual Rodenator, it is not bad at all.

[brutal]

Needs a mult-layered defensive/offensive approach.

[wctriumph]

Bert, God Bless you for starting this thread. I watched the lady in boulder and I had to play it for my wife. That lady's description of the little adorable rodents running across the field screaming and on fire was too much fun!

Thanks again.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Bert, God Bless you for starting this thread. I watched the lady in boulder and I had to play it for my wife. That lady's description of the little adorable rodents running across the field screaming and on fire was too much fun!

Thanks again.

You mean this idiot concerned citizen of Boulder and probable member of PETA?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOzfigqQ0g

[Firehaus]

I don't get it? Why doesn't she just pay for their humane relocation so there's no problem?


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[brutal]

I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet.

Get after it Carl Bert.


http://youtu.be/GvdHXnuaho4


http://youtu.be/U4xuZMpmXtc?t=54s

[sniper7]

Make your own. Cheaper and even more fun.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e4CNsRwtFy8

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I like how it is done with bud light in hand!

[HoneyBadger]

She lost me 9 seconds in when she said "anyone that's trying to take care of prairie dogs should try to relocate them first." When i "take care of" prairie dogs, usually I relocate their limbs all over the field or hillside where I'm shooting.

[fairrpe86]

When we were doing cleanup work after the floods last year, Biulder made us move our staging area due to it being a pdog habitat. They claimed our trucks were killing them...none of us saw a problem with that but then again it is Boulder after all.

[MrPrena]

You mean this idiot concerned citizen of Boulder and probable member of PETA?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOzfigqQ0g


I understand the Rodenator may be loud and rattle the window. I also understand that she lives in city of Boulder, and other side of the fence is County of Boulder.
I would not like the noise of explosion, but I WOULD LOVE the fact that there are less probability of Prairie Dog settling up at my back yard.

[sniper7]

She is another case of the idiots who don't pay attention to their surroundings when they purchase a home.

oh I'm sorry, you moved into a house near a shooting range. WTF do you think was going to happen.
oh I'm sorry you moved into a condo by the airport. Yes, those planes make noise and you got the cheapest place you could find because it is right below the final approach fix.

[brutal]

She is another case of the idiots who don't pay attention to their surroundings when they purchase a home.

oh I'm sorry, you moved into a house near a shooting range. WTF do you think was going to happen.
oh I'm sorry you moved into a condo by the airport. Yes, those planes make noise and you got the cheapest place you could find because it is right below the final approach fix.

We had that here years ago in our housing area.

We are surrounded on three sides by Parker. Some dimwit bought a house with "open space" in the back.

Turns out the open space is not deeded as such and was open to development. Derp. FWIW, Our house DOES back into county deeded open space.

Said dimwit, her mom, and another dimwit LAWYER (no offense to lawyers on this board) petitioned to be annexed into Parker after they got wind of an incoming builder so they would have a say as to what would be done with the development. Parker didn't really want us as the extra cost to support Police, plowing, etc. would outweigh the property tax mill and extra retail taxes they could possibly milk us for. We fought that BS for as long as possible and when Parker was finally forced to conduct a special ballot measure, it got shot down something like 340 against 18 for.

In the end, the economy tanked and the builder pulled out, I assume partly to delays.

Thanks to the dimwits, it cost the city probably $25k to run the vote, cost the NO people time in court, etc. and probably cost the city more in lost (retail) tax revenue.

[ray1970]

I vote for a live trap.

Then, when you have quite a few of them in captivity, you can eliminate them by running them all over at once with your lawn mower. Or maybe put them all in a burlap sack and swing it against a tree like a baseball bat. Or maybe drown them one at a time in a bucket of water. Or maybe use them for ammo in some kind of potato gun and shoot them at some solid object. Or bury them in the ground with their heads sticking out and use a pitching wedge for a little golf practice.

Or you could just post an ad on the Boulder Craigslist and see if anyone wants to adopt the cute little critters.

[meatman]

Dump a bunch of dry ice into every hole and suffocate them.

[BPTactical]

Catch them live and sell them to Buckaroo.........I can retire!

[newracer]

Most municipalities have ordinances against even shooting pellet rifles, but it is OK in some as long as the pellet doesn't leave your property.

Poison blow gun?

[Aloha_Shooter]

I vote for a live trap.

Then, when you have quite a few of them in captivity, you can eliminate them by running them all over at once with your lawn mower. Or maybe put them all in a burlap sack and swing it against a tree like a baseball bat. Or maybe drown them one at a time in a bucket of water. Or maybe use them for ammo in some kind of potato gun and shoot them at some solid object. Or bury them in the ground with their heads sticking out and use a pitching wedge for a little golf practice.

Or you could just post an ad on the Boulder Craigslist and see if anyone wants to adopt the cute little critters.

Most of the above would get you in trouble for cruelty to animals but I see nothing wrong with dumping a load of the critters on the front door of the woman in Boulder who objected to the Rodenator. Be sure to leave a friendly note like, "I heard you wanted to give these guys a good home."

[Firehaus]

Most of the above would get you in trouble for cruelty to animals but I see nothing wrong with dumping a load of the critters on the front door of the woman in Boulder who objected to the Rodenator. Be sure to leave a friendly note like, "I heard you wanted to give these guys a good home."

FTW!


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[SideShow Bob]

Catch them live and sell them to Buckaroo.........I can retire!

You already did once.........[Coffee]

[ray1970]

Most of the above would get you in trouble for cruelty to animals


Just for the record, my post was meant to be taken as a joke. I do not condone the cruel treatment of any of God's creatures. [Beer]

[copfish]

OMG! Prairie dogs running around on fire screaming? That would be a video to see... Geez...

[Irving]

It's okay for the kids to watch prairie dogs being exploded, as long as none of them escape their holes.

[cstone]

Go to the National Zoo in DC. They actually have a prairie dog habitat. It is pretty close to the Great Panda enclosure.

After living in CO, it just makes me laugh when we visit and I see other visitors standing and pointing and taking pics of the rodents.

[buffalobo]

You mean this idiot concerned citizen of Boulder and probable member of PETA?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOzfigqQ0g


I wish she were my neighbor.

We would roll out the redneck carpet. Even invite here over to drink beer and blow shit up, especially pasture rats.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PuY7BKNyKgM

[OtterbatHellcat]

Crossbow practice.