Jeb48

My problem with chewed wires and such was from a pair of rats that showed up last year. They chewed the wires off a battery charger on a tractor I have parked in my carport twice. I put my trail cam down in the carport to see what was doing it before I attacked. Saw the normal skunks and such wander through, then the rats. So I started with a large sticky trap and got one and then the second in a rat trap, both tucked in a little tunnel I made with 6X6 blocks of wood so I didn't catch a skunk. I was also having trouble with my truck and I found a vacuum line chewed off and a couple of wires. Our old place we had bird feeders hanging off the side of the house by a window. Squirrels would crawl up the side of the house and jump out on the feeders. It became my obsession to keep squirrels off the house. started with a 20g and moved up to a 12g. They are trained fast and I would get a few on the ground running away but most were shot out of the top of the trees. I started keeping score on a marker board and the year we moved I was up to 13 in 6 months. Was warned that we were moving into bear country and they liked raiding bird feeders so we don't feed birds anymore. Up to this last year we didn't see many squirrels around the house but they are starting to show up now so I'm keeping an eye on them. As far as future mice and rats I have started putting rat poisoned cubes out that have ground-up peanuts in the cubes. I put them in pieces of PVC pipe so bigger animals will not get into them. I have some pipes from about 1.5" up to 4" in diameter, all scarps. I just put them out so I don't know if they will be effective. I also put them in my shed.

Colonel W. F. Cody “Buffalo Bill”

Santa Shake Down

Welcome, spent lots of time in Indiana over the years, college, lots of relatives and friends. Even considered southern Indiana when we decided to move. Indiana is also a gun friendly state, but TN has warmer weather, less snow and better taxes so Indiana didn't make the final cut. I think you will love it here.

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Half magazine 73 Winchester rifle and Merwin revolver

I'm hoping they seal well, I have been buying Harbor Freight plastic ammo cans when they go on sale for around $5/ea. They stack sideways in filing cabinet drawers. I wouldn't put that much weight in the cheap filing cabinets but I have bought several of the commercial fully suspended type over the years used cheap and they hold a fully loaded drawer fine. I also have some larger storage boxes but I like smaller boxes for more near term use and staging for later storage in bigger containers so I don't have to open the big boxes very often. I have thought of going to vacuum packing but so far have not invested in the equipment. My Son went a step further by packing loose ammo with just the end of the box with the batch info in vacuum bags and then storing the bags in ammo cans, saves a lot of space.

Duck Hunters

Katharine Hepburn

Stevens Christmas. I have a Stevens Little Scout hanging on my wall that an old gunsmith gave me when I was about 10. No firing pin and the bore is very rusty but the outside has been cosmetically restored so it looks nice above one of our doors. Just think I could have bought a new one for $2.25 back when this ad was printed.

LA Troops

Annie Oakley

I thought he looked familiar.

Had about 2 dozen turkeys wondering around behind the house earlier this week.

Pony Kid