What sort of gun is suggested for dealing with a mouse problem in an older house?

Question

One of my friends is very old and has asked me to help with ridding his home of mice. He says that I should not set traps because they don't work. I decided that getting a hunting party together would be most effective, but I need a good gun first. I want to get the most mice!

Answer 1

I have slain several mice with a CO2 pellet gun. We have 4 cats, but they aren't very ambitious. I use the flat-tipped pellets, and get one-shot kills. I have had no damage to the house, so I feel that a pellet gun is a good way to thin out the mouse population. My gun is a Crossman revolver that is modeled after the Colt Python.

Answer 2

A cat. Hunting mice with a gun is ineffective for a couple of reasons.

The first is that there are about 10 times as many mice as you might actually ever see.

That means that you would only on a good day knock off 1 out of every ten,

The second is that mice breed. Rapidly. A female of just about any rodent is pregnant for 3 weeks and can become pregnant again within an hour of delivering her 8 or 9 babies.

The third ties the two others together, shooting rats to get rid of them only gets the slower dumber rats.
Which means you will be breeding rats that are smarter and faster. (or mice)

If you are determined to fire off a gun in a house, use a bb gun or a blowgun, anything else, the bullets could ricochet off walls or just about anything else and come right home to YOU.

But a cat is a better option.

Answer 3

hmmm...well I'm not very knowledgeable on guns, but i can tell you that i don't think getting a group of people to go into a house with guns to kill mice will work. Mice are too small to shoot i think, so i think you should be smarter then the mouse. oh and if you think of it if you are shooting at mice you may be messing up your friends house with a bunch of holes.

I think you should try and set up traps around the house, not like mouse traps that you buy in the store but homemade mouse traps, you seem like a creative guy and i think you could come up with some way to catch a mouse.
:)

Answer 4

I had a mouse problem once and I used glue traps. Very humane and you can hide them easily in a closet, behind your stove and fridge, even up high. Because, god only knows, mice can get anywhere. The upside to glue traps is that there's no poison, but has a scent that's appealing to mice. They're a lot better and more accurate then the traditional wooden mouse trap, as well. Kid and dog friendly if placed properly. Once the mice are trapped just put trap and all in a small bag, tie it up and put it outside till dead and throw away. No hurt kids, no hurt dog!

Answer 5

Any gun, even a bb gun would most probably damage the home if shot inside the house, also some cities have laws against dischargine ie fireing a gun within the city limits ie house.
Poison works well, try DeCon, make sure that childeren and pets cannot get at the bait.

Answer 6

A gun??? Ok here is a really cheap solution without having a gun,,,,buy some mouse traps, set them with peanut butter, belive me when i tell you that, I lived in a home that had tons of mice and my two stupid siamese wouldnt get them but mouse traps full of peanut butter caught them left and right!!!

Answer 7

Guns won't get you any mice. Get a repeater trap (they sell them at feed stores). You can catch a lot of mice that way. If you want to use a gun (ha ha), use a bb gun. My hubby shot mice that were outside with one. Plus if you are using it inside a bb gun won't put holes in the drywall.

Answer 8

Why use a gun for a mouse? A little overkill isnt it? If you insist on a gun..try a AK47. Certainly is deadly and will probably geet you 20 years minimum in jail. Hopefully the jail wont have mice problems.

Answer 9

I hope you're kidding. For those who are interested, I've had great success with this humane trap in my house:

http://veganstore.com/index.html?stocknumber=266

I've caught over ten mice with it so far and it can be used over and over indefinitely. Or, you can try making the free homemade humane trap described here:

http://www.helpinganimals.com/wildlife_livingWithMice.asp

If you do live trap mice, please be sure to check the traps several times a day and release the mice promptly, approximately a mile away from your home. It is much more cruel to allow a mouse in a live trap to slowly starve to death than to kill it quickly with a snap trap. When you release the mice, do it in an area with some sheltering bushes or plants.

The absolute cruelest traps are glue traps. Mice have been known to gnaw off their own limbs and tear off their skin in an effort to escape, as they starve or dehydrate to death or suffocate in the glue. It can take three to five days for them to die. Poison isn't any better, as the mice die slowly and painfully from internal bleeding. It can take up to a week for them to die, and then they smell as they rot behind your walls.

Answer 10

Glue traps are the best method to trap rats and mice.

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