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<blockquote data-quote="wv270wsm" data-source="post: 1745002" data-attributes="member: 96251"><p>When I was a kid we had the " flood of 85" which in turn meant since we lived on high ground and was raising hogs we wound up with a lot of rats . We lived outside of an old mining town and we ended up with rats the size of opossums. Granted with any live stock you will have some but after that flood we had them by the wheel borrows full. That's when I learned to shoot dad would come home take me and the 22 to the hog lot and set till dark. I was almost 4 and we killed a pile of rats. The following year I got my first BB gun and the chipmunks were on the hit list close or long range after a summer of chasing them . If I could get within 30 yards of them they were in trouble. 30 yards with a pump BB gun is a long poke for a 5-6 old kid . I'd burn through a carton of bbs in bout 3 or 4 days soda cans pie plates birds chipmunks it didn't matter I was shooting at it. </p><p>One fall a grouse started showing up at moms bird feeder me and dad had explicit instructions to NOT shoot this grouse . One day I ask mom if I could shoot at it with my BB gun she never really thought about it and said yeah never in a million years did she think I'd kill it . But we ended up eating him for sure.</p><p> I ended up getting a cross man 760 when I was about 9 maybe 10 I couldn't tell you how many rabbits I killed with that thing and even a few bird feeder squirrels. The squirrels is where you had to be supper precise they were tougher than other game I'd pursued with my trusty BB gun . I found a well placed pointed pellet in the head would generally get them though</p><p>Now I've got 2 young men of my own and they themselves bout wore me out buying bbs . I know now how dad and mom must have felt lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wv270wsm, post: 1745002, member: 96251"] When I was a kid we had the “ flood of 85” which in turn meant since we lived on high ground and was raising hogs we wound up with a lot of rats . We lived outside of an old mining town and we ended up with rats the size of opossums. Granted with any live stock you will have some but after that flood we had them by the wheel borrows full. That’s when I learned to shoot dad would come home take me and the 22 to the hog lot and set till dark. I was almost 4 and we killed a pile of rats. The following year I got my first BB gun and the chipmunks were on the hit list close or long range after a summer of chasing them . If I could get within 30 yards of them they were in trouble. 30 yards with a pump BB gun is a long poke for a 5-6 old kid . I’d burn through a carton of bbs in bout 3 or 4 days soda cans pie plates birds chipmunks it didn’t matter I was shooting at it. One fall a grouse started showing up at moms bird feeder me and dad had explicit instructions to NOT shoot this grouse . One day I ask mom if I could shoot at it with my BB gun she never really thought about it and said yeah never in a million years did she think I’d kill it . But we ended up eating him for sure. I ended up getting a cross man 760 when I was about 9 maybe 10 I couldn’t tell you how many rabbits I killed with that thing and even a few bird feeder squirrels. The squirrels is where you had to be supper precise they were tougher than other game I’d pursued with my trusty BB gun . I found a well placed pointed pellet in the head would generally get them though Now I’ve got 2 young men of my own and they themselves bout wore me out buying bbs . I know now how dad and mom must have felt lol [/QUOTE]
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