Shooting into a body of water

[JerryK]

Shooting at the water can be the same as shooting at a thick metal plate at the same angle. You flip a coin whether the projectile enters/stays in the water, travels under the water a certain distance then bends back up/breaks the surface, or skips out where ever. Same with shooting at the ground. You need a backstop at near or more than 45 degrees to reasonably stop most rounds. And even that is a gamble, YOUR gamble.....

 

[ovrszd]

My Son had a muskrat problem. Shot angle was bad. Used a portable turkey hunting blind. Set it up and left it for a couple days. Then one evening sat in the blind and got the muskrat with a close, safe shot.

 

[the old grind]

My Son had a muskrat problem. Shot angle was bad. Used a portable turkey hunting blind. Set it up and left it for a couple days. Then one evening sat in the blind and got the muskrat with a close, safe shot.

How it's done. :thumbsup: Said it better than I did, too.

 

[GeneV]

I've got the same problem with muskrats in my pond and they're wrecking the banks, enlarging the pond. Actually, that's a big reason I bought my tractor, I'm about to get serious, collapsing their tunnels/lairs and filling in their handiwork.

 

[oosik]

I have a pair of river otters that come this way every winter. They stay around four days. Where they come from or go to ......??? It's great fun to watch them. They slide down the cliffs on the snow and out onto the frozen lake. This will go on for most all day - every day. They they pack up and go - ???

The nearest river - Spokane R. - is over 45 miles north.

They will drag a few bass out on the ice and holding the bass between their front paws - eat the bass like a kid eating an icecream cone.

After dark - out on the front porch. You can hear them - crunch, crunch.

I know they eat a lot of bass but my little lake is alway overpopulated with bass anyhow.

Come spring time there are literally thousands and thousands of egg-sac baby bass all around the entire shore line. Food for the larger bass.

I row around the lake and see "pods" of yolk-sac baby bass numbering in the thousands.

It's a completely different story if you have a limited number of bass in a small pond.