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Mossberg 12ga = 1, Bat = 0

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At 3:00 AM, my 9 month pregnant wife got out of bed to walk to the kitchen for a drink of water... her trip took 20 minutes, because she was on the kitchen floor trying to avoid being attacked by a BAT!...

The damn Bat flew into one of the roof vents...then down through the attic fan... and was flying around inside of our house...

Well... my wife had a clear shot to the bedroom... so she ran down the hall and into our bedroom... she woke me up... saying there was a Bat in our house... I was like... whatever... go back to bed... but I laid there thinking what the hell was I going to do about this Bat....

I jumped out of bed... turned on our bedroom light.... grabbed my Mossberg 12ga and proceeded to cycle the Remington 00 buckshot out of it... and load up some #4 buck... my wife was like "what are you doing?!?".... I just smiled... and said... I'm going go to take care of this Bat.... I gave her my extra pair of ear plugs and said "put these in your ears and stay under the sheets until you hear a loud boom..."

I put on a hat, put my sonic defender ear plugs in, grabbed my loaded 12 ga, and opened the bedroom door and headed down the hall....

That ****ing Bat dove straight at me... MANY times... I laid the gun down once I made it down the hall and into the living room... all the while I was ducking from this blood sucking rat...

I tried knocking it out of the air with a towel... then a pillow... nothing worked....

But after 2-3 minutes, the damn thing flew up to the attic fan louver and hung upside down... and just when I bent down to pick-up the 12ga it started to fly again....so I just waited his ass out... :lol:.... and kept ducking when it flew near me...

Then... it flew up to the attic fan one last... hung upside down... and I was ready for his ass this time.... BOOM!!!!!!

Here are the results:




CURRENT PROGRESS:

I've removed the attic fan louver and framed the hole... then added sheetrock...

And now that the mess is cleaned up, you can barely see damage to the existing sheetrock from the #4....


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I dont want to be rude but i think in this case your an idiot. who shoots a shotgun in the house to kill a bat? a baseball bat or just about anything else would do.

But i will admit the results are amusing. i know know i would regret doing it after.
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No regrets here... I removed the fan, framed the opening and have already hung sheetrock to cover the opening... I didn't care for the fan anyway... so this was a good excuse to frame it in now...

I thought it was hilarious... no one was harmed...
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where do you live?
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crizzo said:
where do you live?
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What was your wifes reaction after the fact. was there any bat left?
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SRD said:
What was your wifes reaction after the fact. was there any bat left?
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She was fine... she just grabbed the cleaning supplies and we went to rubbing the splatter off the walls...

There was nothing left of the bat... except vapor... haha
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At least your trained her well she cleaned up your mess. If it was my girl she would make me clean it.
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jsa310 said:
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...pretty straight forward question

around here the police wouldnt be too happy
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Its kinda cool because its your house. If it was mine I would have handled it another way. I am curious what your wife had to say about it once it was all over with. I shoot opossums out my kitchen window and my GF thinks Im crazy.
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That was idiotic and unsafe. There was no need to shoot the bat.

A part of gun ownership is being responsible, and knowing when to use a firearm. That was one of the most irresponsible things I've ever seen.

No offense, but that was plain stupid. I love guns just as much as the next guy, and I LOOK for reasons to shoot, and I love to shoot often, but you could have hurt other people living next door, or caused incidental damage to other people's property.

You're lucky the cops didn't come. Hence the question on where do you live.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but you posted on the internet for everyone to see your stupidity.
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Dracula Beware... :cool:

Although for Dracula you should probably use 00.











So besides Zombies; now we also have to worry about vampires.
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crizzo said:
...pretty straight forward question

around here the police wouldnt be too happy
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There were no cops knocking on my door dad... it's all good...
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Vitesse304 said:
That was idiotic and unsafe. There was no need to shoot the bat.

A part of gun ownership is being responsible, and knowing when to use a firearm. That was one of the most irresponsible things I've ever seen.

No offense, but that was plain stupid. I love guns just as much as the next guy, and I LOOK for reasons to shoot, and I love to shoot often, but you could have hurt other people living next door, or caused incidental damage to other people's property.

You're lucky the cops didn't come. Hence the question on where do you live.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but you posted on the internet for everyone to see your stupidity.
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The sheetrock was barely scarred.... obviously you don't know much about shotguns.... all my neighbors were perfectly safe....
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Vitesse304 said:
That was idiotic and unsafe. There was no need to shoot the bat.

A part of gun ownership is being responsible, and knowing when to use a firearm. That was one of the most irresponsible things I've ever seen.

No offense, but that was plain stupid. I love guns just as much as the next guy, and I LOOK for reasons to shoot, and I love to shoot often, but you could have hurt other people living next door, or caused incidental damage to other people's property.

You're lucky the cops didn't come. Hence the question on where do you live.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but you posted on the internet for everyone to see your stupidity.
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So BE IT.

His choice man, not yours.

He clearly shot the roof, not walls, now unless Dracula was living in the attic I don't think anybody else "next door" could have possibly been shot.

Plus #4 shot is not THAT loud for the guy next door to be able to hear.

amusing pics; thanks for sharing man.
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1852legend said:
Its kinda cool because its your house. If it was mine I would have handled it another way. I am curious what your wife had to say about it once it was all over with. I shoot opossums out my kitchen window and my GF thinks Im crazy.
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She wasn't upset... neither of us like bats too much.... can't you tell? haha

Like I said, the hole is patched now... and after a few coats of mud and some paint you'll never know this even happened....

Some of the magazine shooters in here have no idea what a shotgun will/won't do.... I actually know how to use one...
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Vitesse304 said:
That was idiotic and unsafe. There was no need to shoot the bat.

A part of gun ownership is being responsible, and knowing when to use a firearm. That was one of the most irresponsible things I've ever seen.

No offense, but that was plain stupid. I love guns just as much as the next guy, and I LOOK for reasons to shoot, and I love to shoot often, but you could have hurt other people living next door, or caused incidental damage to other people's property.

You're lucky the cops didn't come. Hence the question on where do you live.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but you posted on the internet for everyone to see your stupidity.
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ladromar said:
amusing pics; thanks for sharing man.
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No problem bro.... ALL my co-workers thought it was hilarious...

The #4 wasn't too loud at all...
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Have you checked your roof. It looks like it possible that a few pellets could have went in between the louvers and poked holes in your roof. Dont want some rain to ruin the new drywall.
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jsa310 said:
The sheetrock was barely scarred.... obviously you don't know much about shotguns.... all my neighbors were perfectly safe....
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The point isn't if the shot made it through the sheetrock, or through the roof. The point is that you didn't need to fire a gun indoors at an animal that could have easily been shoo'd outside or dispatched in another way.

You give anti-gun proponents reasons to vote against gun ownership.

You were irresponsible and could have harmed others. What if the bat flew off while you were trying to shoot it and you accidental shot through a window, or even at your wife?

Again, it's your house, do what you want...you posted on the internet to get responses, here's mine.
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