you might be a redneck

[coast2coasttinting]

I was woken last night by my wife. She said something just ran across the floor. I am thinking with fall coming and us being gone its a mouse. However I go to get out of bed to look, and I see it climbing my bedroom curtian. Its a freaking squirrel. . So I did what any redneck would do and grabbed my pellet rifle.

[lostinbama]

cut the limbs off your house man

[coast2coasttinting]

the squirrel ducks behind the curtian and hides behind it on my window ledge. Now I am like WTF I don't want to shoot out my window. So I start tossing stuff at the curtain until he starts moving. He sticks his head over the top of the curtian to look out. At this point I am standing on my bed in my boxers with the pellet rifle aimed and ready to fire.

[coast2coasttinting]

I popped him in the head with one shot. He ran down the curtain and fell onto the floor. I put 2 more rounds in him to make sure he dead. I think I was most shocked I was able to aim that well out of a dead sleep. go to know if I ever get broke into. I will just be sure to grab something bigger then my pellet rifle.

[coast2coasttinting]

Bama, I have 3 very large pecan trees in my yard. Hell will freeze over before I can get ride of the squirrels and raccons out of the trees at my house this time of year.

[lostinbama]

They got in my attic once and were a pain in the azz

[coast2coasttinting]

we have been pretty lucky with keeping them out. This one was kinda small. But with those trees, will never bet rid of them in my trees. I just have to keep them thinned out. Since I live in town I have to use the pellet rifle. Otherwise I would pop them with my old squirrel gun. 4/10 double I have had since I was 10 years old. Couldn't imagine handing a gun like that to my 11 year olds these day. What were my parents thinking.

[lostinbama]

Couldn't imagine handing a gun like that to my 11 year olds these day. What were my parents thinking.

Tell me about it...

[Tint Eastwood]

Different times C2C. When my dad was growing up he had access to a whole arsenal. He knew better than to mess with them without grandpa around. He was 8-9 and had his own .22 and went out hunting rodents by himself. It's all how you teach them. He said he knew if he was caught playing with a gun he would have been better off shooting himself. Gramps didn't take no chit.

On the flip side my mom hates guns, she had a brother that was shot and killed accidentally by a friends brother who was playing with a loaded gun. He was just 8 yrs old. The kid that shot him was not taught properly and he was 16....should have known better.

[coast2coasttinting]

by the time I was 12 years old, I had a key to the gun safe. in it was my 4/10 a 22 bolt action rifle, a 22 semi auto rifle, a 20 guage shotgun, a 16 guage double barrel shotgun. And a compound hunting bow. I was more armed then, then I am now.