Post by mdbowhuntr on Nov 15, 2006 8:03:42 GMT -5
OK, this has nothing to do with hunting whitetails but I can't believe the luck I'm having in my pursuit of wild critters.
Last night I saw a mouse run across the rafters in my basement. I didn't have a weapon handy, my bow was in the garage and the shotgun would have been a little overkill, so to speak, and everytime I reached for a shoe to throw he'd run off. So it was off to Wal-Mart for mouse traps. I get home bait three of them with peanut butter and some seasame seeds to make it more enticing. I put two of the traps along his travel route (I used to trap for a timber company that I worked for in Oregon so I know a thing or two about trapping) and one on the floor in the corner. I just happen to have a night vision device that I recently borrowed from a friend so I turned off the lights and sat back to watch the show. Not three minutes later the little bugger came running along the rafter just as I had anticipated (the trap location was much better than my choice of stand locations lately). He stops at the trap, smells the PB and proceeds to sit on the trap and eat. Remember I'm watching all of this through a night scope and I am shaking in anticipation (mouse fever) for the trap to spring. The mouse continues to feed and walk all over the trap, NOTHING! he walks away untouched. He comes back about a minute later from the other direction, this time he going to get it, he's coming in on the pan side of the trap, mouse fever starts to set in as I prepare for the neck breaking snap, NOTHING!! again he sits on the trap, eats, walks all over the trap then heads back from whence it came. At this point I don't think I could even catch a cold!!!!!
Last night I saw a mouse run across the rafters in my basement. I didn't have a weapon handy, my bow was in the garage and the shotgun would have been a little overkill, so to speak, and everytime I reached for a shoe to throw he'd run off. So it was off to Wal-Mart for mouse traps. I get home bait three of them with peanut butter and some seasame seeds to make it more enticing. I put two of the traps along his travel route (I used to trap for a timber company that I worked for in Oregon so I know a thing or two about trapping) and one on the floor in the corner. I just happen to have a night vision device that I recently borrowed from a friend so I turned off the lights and sat back to watch the show. Not three minutes later the little bugger came running along the rafter just as I had anticipated (the trap location was much better than my choice of stand locations lately). He stops at the trap, smells the PB and proceeds to sit on the trap and eat. Remember I'm watching all of this through a night scope and I am shaking in anticipation (mouse fever) for the trap to spring. The mouse continues to feed and walk all over the trap, NOTHING! he walks away untouched. He comes back about a minute later from the other direction, this time he going to get it, he's coming in on the pan side of the trap, mouse fever starts to set in as I prepare for the neck breaking snap, NOTHING!! again he sits on the trap, eats, walks all over the trap then heads back from whence it came. At this point I don't think I could even catch a cold!!!!!
