squirrel vs. speedster

My son and I were visiting with my father in St. Louis a couple years ago. We were hanging out on the back porch, drinking delicious and refreshing beverages, when my Dad froze. He was looking at a chipmunk that was beginning to burrow under the concrete around his pool.
He had just replaced an old swimming pool, partially because of burrowing chipmunks.
He asked me if I remembered where the pellet gun was. Duh.
My son asked me if he could shoot the chipmunk. Dad was in the Rangers and I'm not a half-bad shot either -- either of us could have dropped that little bastard -- but my son lives with an anti-weapons Mom. It was news to me he knew one end from the other.
"Morgan, who taught you how to shoot?"
"Daddy, really. I live in Montana. Everybody there has guns and kills stuff. Grandma taught me how!"
He wasn't kidding. HE shot that critter good and dead with one pellet, and then he disposed of it, too -- at nine years old!

Cory-scroll back up to my posted YouTube link, go there and see if that isn't Grandma laughing in the background...

Well, OK the squirrel videos are genuine LMAO. And I confess, I have led a sheltered life, having no idea hertofore about squirrel launching, which appears to be a bona fide avocation. I love it. If I take the idea, couple in my rocket science experience, things could get intetesting. Hmmmm . . .

Kelly - I bet you could figure the velocity and trajectory needed to launch one of em squirrels into the next zip code!

go big and launch them into the chesapeake bay.

Simple 6" PVC compressed air cannon would be fun to build ~
When I was a kid we would load a stray cat into a large paper grocery bag, twist the top and gently sending it down river, within 20 seconds as the bottom of the bag began to loose it's strength, said feline passenger would evac the bag and make white water heading for shore ~

now we're talkin'

http://dangerouslyfun.com/spud-gun