And pillage most foul and heinous it is!

They tore down the fencing I had guarding it. The 8mm Mauser is beginning to sound like a viable solution come fall.

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      I can’t remember. I bought the metal walls from Menard’s, if you are familiar with that name. And then gave the kids at our local school a cut list and all the materials to make the stands as a woodshop project. Me and Grandma are getting old, and it’s a lot easier to stand and “farm” than it is to get down on the ground these days.

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    One has to defend their garden and their walls. May I suggest mines(predator piss) and snipers(cats)

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      The deer here have little fear of humans or dogs. And cats, well, they are useless. I have 3 dogs that pee and crap all over the yard, and that does not bother them. I do know my 8mm rifle will bother them…

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        Did you try bigger cats?

        But for me the easiest anti deer solution was an automatic night light at daytime they stayed away and the sudden light scared them away

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          We have a couple of bigger cats in the area. They are called cougars, and NOT the kind you find in a bar…We even got wolves. Heck, I found a wolf kill about a half mile from my house this winter again.

          The automatic solar light trick did work for a while. But they do learn, and now they just ignore it. About the surest way to get them to be less of a problem is to thin them out by eating them.

          I did put my fence back up, but I’m going to need to think of something stronger.

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    Hey, might as well, and eat the deer too. If you don’t want to I’m sure some other local hunter would like the opportunity, given permission!

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      Oh, don’t worry, I will get to eat them beets even if they get turned into venison first. If there is one thing I am, it’s petty and vindictive about my beets.

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    Party popper, booby traps…like trip wire style. Motion detector, garden hose sprayer…

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        Claymores in the trees, its the only proper solution…

        I use a suppressed 10/22, doesn’t bother the neighbors like a Mauser (which I also have)

        EDIT:

        If its deer I have a suppressed 700 for that work.

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          I could do that, I do have a small machine shop that could do that kind of work. But I’m not willing to ruin a pristine Yugoslav 24/49 Mauser with a shiny new Yugoslav barrel. My nearest neighbor is a mile away in the middle of a forest. He ain’t going to notice much…