Speaking of SCDNR...

[kcult]

They were just in my neighborhood. Animal control called them.

It seems there is either a fox or coyote in a drain tile across the street. The neighbors are in a tizzy. One end of the tile is blocked and the other end has a trap set up. I don't see this working in the middle of the day.

Oh yeah, SCDNR. I almost forgot. They told the homeowners that it was nature. It wandered into the neighborhood, it will wander out. But, they also suggested that if they were concerned about it, they (the homeowners) could shoot it. That went over really well with that crowd.

I was sort of surprised at that suggestion, though. Yes, we are outside the city limits, but we are in a very typical neighborhood. Single family homes, sitting on lots between a half and one acre. Would you want to be responsible for that bullet when it leaves the gun and into a drain tile? Not me.

 

[CHRIS_WNC]

Time to break out a spear!


CHRIS

 

[Bocephus]

 

[Catfish]

Drain tile... had to look that one up.
And now that I learned something, I’m done for today.

 

[Get Off My Lawn]

Drain tile... had to look that one up.
And now that I learned something, I’m done for today.

Dittos, along with SCDNR

 

[DCGallim]

Really?

Surely you jest.

I’ve called it drain tile my whole life.

We're simple people without all his books and learnin'.

 

[Climberman]

Time to break out a spear!


CHRIS

 

[Catfish]

Really?

Surely you jest.

I’ve called it drain tile my whole life.

I heard it when I was a kid working in the mountains. They called clay sewer pipe "dring tayl"... you can't really type what they were saying. But it was small clay pipes only, and definitely nothing that a coyote could fit into.

 

[kcult]

I heard it when I was a kid working in the mountains. They called clay sewer pipe "dring tayl"... you can't really type what they were saying. But it was small clay pipes only, and definitely nothing that a coyote could fit into.

That's what I've always heard it called.

I looked it up and I guess culvert is another way of saying it?

 

[Catfish]

My wife calls it a conduit. English is a funny language.

Did they catch it?

 

[kcult]

My wife calls it a conduit. English is a funny language.

Did they catch it?

No. As far as I know, it's still in there.

I glanced at the trap on the way into work, and again at lunch.

No critter.

 

[BatteryOaksBilly]

Drain tile... had to look that one up.

Dittos, along with SCDNR

Ya'll ever had ya feet offen the concrete???

 

[11B CIB]

We don’t have drain tiles here as far as I know. At least if we do, we call them drainage ditches

The one time we had a rabid animal in the ‘hood, I was about to shoot it and DNR showed up. Someone else called them.

He held the raccoon down with his foot and put a .40 hollow point into its head like 2-3” away from his boot. Not how I would’ve done it but....

 

[Catfish]

Ya'll ever had ya feet offen the concrete???

Y'ever squish a cow patty 'twixt your bare toes?

 

[Ikarus1]

22 magnum HP for neighborhood pest dispatch. Know your target and beyond. My dad shot a rat in the house with a 22short once. It was a headshot and minimal amount of backspatter. I was impressed.

 

[kcult]

22 magnum HP for neighborhood pest dispatch. Know your target and beyond. My dad shot a rat in the house with a 22short once. It was a headshot and minimal amount of backspatter. I was impressed.

I haven't seen how these people blocked off the other end, but I still don't like the idea of shooting at an animal in a concrete tube.

 

[Ikarus1]

I haven't seen how these people blocked off the other end, but I still don't like the idea of shooting at an animal in a concrete tube.

fill it with water first, then it's a discharge tube like gunsmiths use.

Concrete doesn't make bullets bounce like steel. Ever shot steel?

 

[kcult]

Update:

No update. Nothing in the trap. So, either the animal is not in there like the family and animal control thought, or it's still in there and is refusing to enter the trap. And I don't see me laying in the ditch to look up in there.

Guess I'll ask the family this afternoon to find out if they know what's going on.

 

[kcult]

Update:

The "coyote" is dead. At least that's what the homeowner says.

Animal control retrieved their trap yesterday, sometime after lunch, but left the coyote.

The homeowner was upset, fearing the carcass was going to attract other animals, so he blocked off the drain tile.

 

[Climberman]

Update:

The "coyote" is dead. At least that's what the homeowner says.

Animal control retrieved their trap yesterday, sometime after lunch, but left the coyote.

The homeowner was upset, fearing the carcass was going to attract other animals, so he blocked off the drain tile.

Wait a minute, I assume animal control didn't catch the animal....it just never came out of the hole? If it's dead, can you not hook it with something like a gaff on a pole to get rid of it?

 

[grungewehr39]

so he blocked off the drain tile.

now it will rain.

 

[kcult]

Wait a minute, I assume animal control didn't catch the animal....it just never came out of the hole? If it's dead, can you not hook it with something like a gaff on a pole to get rid of it?

Nope. It never came out. Never got trapped.

I probably could drag it out, but seeing how it's in someone else's yard, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

 

[Climberman]

Nope. It never came out. Never got trapped.

I probably could drag it out, but seeing how it's in someone else's yard, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.

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