Chipmunks with a bow


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Re: Chipmunks with a bow

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You've got more money than I have if your shooting arrows at chipmunks!

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Or I am just a better shot than you grin.gif LMBO...I have shot at things smaller. I don't think a chippy will give me much more trouble grin.gif. Anyway, if you have ever shot Judo points, you will know that unless you really suck or do an "Oops" and hit a tree directly, your arrow will be fine....especially for us carbon users wink.gif

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Yeah I agree, it's pretty hard to break or lose an arrow with Judo's on them. I think I have the small ones. Not sure if I ever seen the big ones. My small ones should work fine. They fly pretty much the same. I used them a few times for squirrels last year grin.gif. I practice alot in the yard with plastic bottle caps and can usually hit a bottle cap at 20 yards 5-6 times out of 10 times. Here chippy chippy chippy grin.gif

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Yep, it can be done. grin.gif

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Notice the little bald spot on the noggin of that chipmunk.

I took this chipmunk out with my son's $12 fiberglas bow using a $1 fiberglas arrow.

My kids were target shooting earlier in the day and were about to finish up when I noticed this munk sitting in the crotch of a tree about 10 yards away. I told my son to grab me an arrow, so I nocked one up, and shot. I missed 3 inches low to the right. To our amazement the chipper didn't move, so I nocked another, compensated up and left, and WHAMMO! right in the bean. The chipmunk went flying and the kids went nuts. We went to the back of the tree to find a dazed chipper. My son picked it up, I snapped some photos and by this time the chipmunk had regained his senses and we let him go in the neighboring woods.

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Still can't believe I hit that thing right in the bean.

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The chipmunk went flying and the kids went nuts.

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LMBO grin.gifgrin.gifgrin.gif

But see, I just don't want to daze it, I want to put it to sleep....for good grin.gif

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Trust me brother, I would have, had it not been for my sweet little niece in the picture. She's your typical little girl, and I just didn't have the heart to step on its head while she was looking. frown.gifgrin.gif

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I thought of you, Chris, when I saw this story initially. Didn't you get flamed on this board for that exact same story line and set of pictures you posted a year ago or so?

Hmmmmmmmm...... grin.gif

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Yep, I believe I did get flamed Tom. Oh well, can't make everyone happy. The ones who get upset about killing vermin are the ones that have never had property destroyed by said vermin. Chipmunks burrow under my deck and sidewalk, chew through the siding on my garage, eat my bird seed container, etc., etc.

And, man, if you can't laugh at a 40 year old, pot bellied has been stunning a chipmunk with a $12 bow while a fan club of little people cheering you on, you have to slow down and smell the flowers for crying out loud.

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And, man, if you can't laugh at a 40 year old, pot bellied has been stunning a chipmunk with a $12 bow while a fan club of little people cheering you on, you have to slow down and smell the flowers for crying out loud.

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(In my best chick in Jerry McGuire impression) You had me at "40 year old, pot bellied has been"..... grin.gifgrin.gifgrin.gif

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Yep, I believe I did get flamed Tom. Oh well, can't make everyone happy. The ones who get upset about killing vermin are the ones that have never had property destroyed by said vermin. Chipmunks burrow under my deck and sidewalk, chew through the siding on my garage, eat my bird seed container, etc., etc.

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I agree. They get in everything. They are sneaking through somehow in my garage too. I never bothered chipmunks before until I got here. Even out hunting deer and squirrel them pesty things would make so much noise I couldn't stand it but I never messed with them. But now it's war. They are messing up my yard and garden and getting in everything because they are over populated at my residence grin.gif

People will always gripe about this stuff. But, they will get over it, if not...tough chippies grin.gif

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I've shot chipmunks with the bow before and believe me... it ain't easy. The arrow head that I have found that works best is a field tip with an adder point or a grasshopper tip behind it. This will insure the animal getting pinned and not going far. I have had passthroughs with this setup, but the animal was pinned and bled out immediately. I also blasted the end of one of my carbon arrows and my dad and I krazy glued a spent 30-30 cartridge to the tip of the arrow. It doesn't have the same trajectory as the arrows with the field tips and the adder points do, but it will get r done. I also want to add that the grasshopper and adder points have no effect on arrow flight and flu-flu fletching is not necessary. I am shooting a 40# bow.

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Hudson, Ma....about 2 hours east of Springfield.

I got one tonight. I will post pics when I feel like it. Judo tips work well grin.gifwink.gif. I defiantley see the morning is better though. When I was eating my breakfast this morning, I could see about 5 of them out in the back yard around the garden. I don't have time to mess with them in the morning though.

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Awwwwwww Mike, I never even got a rise out of you! I was just goofing man! LOL!

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A rise out of what? What did you say wrong to me confused.gif I know you were goofing confused.gif

Are you on the bottle again grin.gif

LifeNRA, lay off the meds man, your hearing things grin.gif

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Bottle or meds? Havent had a drink in three months! Maybe that the problem! LOL! Only meds are for the heart and diabetes! Oh and a strict diet! lost 18 pounds in three weeks!

Happy hunting! grin.gif

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Even out hunting deer and squirrel them pesty things would make so much noise I couldn't stand it but I never messed with them.

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chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip!

Is this driving you crazy yet Mike?

chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip! chip!

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