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    Default Don't waste money on traps!

    POTTER VALLEY, Calif. ? A Mendocino County woman who was trying to kill mice in her trailer with a gun ended up shooting herself and another person.
    The 43-year-old woman pulled out her .44-caliber Magnum revolver after she saw the mice scurrying across the floor of her trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, sheriff's officials said.
    But she accidentally dropped the gun, which went off as it struck the floor. The bullet went through the woman's kneecap, bounced off the keys sitting on the belt loop of a 42-year-old man in the trailer and grazed the man's groin before ending up in his coin pocket.
    Authorities did not release the shooting victims' names.
    The mice escaped the shooting unharmed.


    Potter Valley, OBVIOUSLY have very large mice!!? a .44 Mag for MICE?
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    She probably hunts deer with a Cannon, Ducks with tripple A and Elephants with a cruise missile.
    For God's sake, Don't Quote me! I'm Probably making this crap up!

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    Sounds like someone from Idaho. Oh wait a minute california is where most idahoians are from. My mistake.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flybinder View Post
    Potter Valley, OBVIOUSLY have very large mice!!? a .44 Mag for MICE?
    Here she is with rodent. http://travel.webshots.com/photo/209...34531094eIUeXB
    Trout don't speak Latin.

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    Do you remember this?; http://wesclark.com/am/mouse_trap.jpg
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    Wink Whaaaaaatttttttt?????????

    Sounds like a pastime that was popular amongst some of the more rural folk when I was a lad growing up in Vermont.
    It was called 'machine gunning for bunnies".
    Kinda tough on the beagles if you were'nt carefull.

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    In military aviation we call that one the "Golden BB". The golden BB is a magical round that bounces around inside the aircraft until it hits all of the occupants and does damage to the machine.

    It is the one in a million shot that finds all the marks against all odds.

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    scary what some ppl think up....

    Now for the real reason I replied......

    was just reading this thread and had a pop up occur...Never had this happen while on this site before..and I've spent hours at a time many many times...just wondered if anyone else has had this happen...as I know JC and LF work hard at keeping the site clean of such things....Just curious...
    Wish ya great fishing,Bill

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    Hypothetically speaking...

    Once upon a time a person who shall remain nameless allegedly attempted to murder the $%#$% mice in the house he was inhabiting with a pellet gun. It worked well for the mice which tried to sneak across the floors, and so forth. One night, a mouse tried to chew its way through one of those plastic plates (like around wall sockets or light switches) which was designed for a coax TV cable. There was a little nose, teeth gnawing on the plastic. Muzzle of the pellet gun three inches away, aimed right where the little bugger's body was...

    At this point it should be noted for those who may not know, or have forgotten, that behind every one of those plates is some sort of steel box containing the light switch, plugins, what have you. I repeat, steel. Pellets are typically made of lead.

    Anyway, back to our story. WHAP! Pieces of plastic embedded in the far wall, pellet flattened like a dime and whizzing around the room. No sign of the mouse.

    Never did get all those buggers.

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    A bucket about 1/4 full of water with a ring of peaunt butter an inch or two from the inside top and a ramp to the rim is a fearsome mouse trap. Once made one up for a friend and it got so full th efirst night the mice were no longer drowning and could jump back out!

    THAT is a mouse problem!

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