Rats
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Once upon a time many many decades ago, my father used a 38 revolver with #9 shot shells on rats with flashlight in one hand and gun in other. I watched as a youngster at the fun as he swung like trap shooting and rolled the buggers in the barn.
- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
Not BS at all. Rats & such can't burp worth a fook, so hit 'em with a snack that gasifies in acid and voila.
https://www.facebook.com/FerndaleRa...ere-it-is-the-recipe-below-/1611022505793081/
Ya 400fps pellet guns were what we shot each other with as kids. I also had a real nice one it was over 30 years ago but it was a European model that is used to hunt with over there can't remember the model but I used it to shoot a badger that got into our back yard and was fighting our dogs the pellet blew completely through and dropped it instantly from 30 feet. Used it on crows / magpies / rabbits / grouse it was great.
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- Peoples Republik of Kanukkistan
Try this, something that Fish Plants use in BC
Get a couple of big cans of yeast and some plastic plates
Mix 2/3 yeast with something they like to eat
Get some stainless steel bowls and fill them with water for them to go drink
Yeast expands in the water they drink and kills them
Get a couple of big cans of yeast and some plastic plates
Mix 2/3 yeast with something they like to eat
Get some stainless steel bowls and fill them with water for them to go drink
Yeast expands in the water they drink and kills them
Night vision is commonly used in the UK, at least on video, but has been priced off the market here if you can even find it.
I shot a plague of house chewing black and grey squirrels for a friend a while back, critters with about the same body mass as a rat, and even using a borrowed hypervelocity .22 cal air rifle, quick kill shots were rare. Most of them ran off a considerable distance and I later found a number of them dead under the tree of their choice. But one solution to the problem in the OP is to get a .22 air rifle with a velocity that requires a PAL, if you have a PAL. A .177 is a bit light for rats I think.
He has a video of his control method taking on a racoon too.(with his dogs though)
Has to be something in it when he has 1 million subs.
Rob
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- Location
- Brockville, ON
I remember when I was younger and used pellet guns at or under 495 fps, I would sometimes put the pellets in backwards so the skirt was forwards. It was surprisingly accurate considering it was backwards. Up to the distance that it was accurate enough at, the thin skirt acted like a hollow point that actually opened up at those low velocities. It worked pretty well on barn pigeons. Give it a try if you like, it costs nothing to put them in wrong haha.
I'd go .22 LR if I wasn't worried about backstop, but its hardly worth it considering that I'm only going to be at this location for a few more weeks.
Most of the projectiles are currently passing through them easily, even at 30 yards they'll go through from the side at least.
Ha! I remain an unbelieving heathen, my friend. No photos to be found at that link...
To be clear, I do believe it can kill them... I just don’t buy the “hearing them pop” as they explode bit lol. Sounds more like a fish story than a rat story ;-)
Great little unit fer sure, but it takes all the fun and shootin' practice out of the equation for many folks.
Best method I use be little dabs of peanut butter with bits of Alka Seltzer tablets mixed in. Rat's don't handle the gas pressure generated by the reaction with stomach acid worth a fook.
The popping sound of rats blowing out at night sure makes for giggles though.
I still use my old TEX 086 pistol though for rat sized critters out to 20 yds or so using RWS 8.2 gr Superpoint 177's. These pellets shoot fine from my HW 45 as well.
Been there done that. Useless. Rats around here must be too well trained. They tend to avoid poison bait traps too. Well educated by all the restaurants and other businesses using them I expect.
So far 2 rats nailed with .177" 8.43gr pellets in January, one in the trellis, one under a neighbour's slightly elevated planter box. As always, precision placement with low power does the job tidily.
They've long since become useless except when situated somewhere where its too dark for them to see, and even then, they're only likely to run into it if something startles them first.
Otherwise they'll just eat the peanut butter out of it without setting it off.
