rat blastin'

[ellir0305 9]

i put up a post a whle back about baiting rats out and after a week of so i have got them feeding from an uptured brick filled with runny peanut butter. in the cow shed about 5 yardss from the grain rolling shed with a 2 tonne heap of grain and my big daddy rat's home. i can see all of this as the shed are open fronted, from the other cow sheds windows so a range of 10-15 yards varing on position in the shed puts the rats at easy blasting range of my soon to be modified ratty. which is firing easy 20p groups at 20yards (atm touch wood) so whats the best way to get i am thinking with my cree torch and mount on the way and a big sheet of red light filter gel too i can wait by fading light to darkness and har for rustling then beam them up and bang or pfft when i get my new silencer.

 

is it best to go headshot every time? bearing in mind they are big feckers the smallest ive got by day is 14" and the biggest ive shot is 18" but i have seen bigger and after a nice little fumble with the weihrauch watched him bolt.

 

any hints or tips greatly appreciated and i will elt you know how i get on with the mods

 

ps. if this filter stuff works i will have a big sheet of it so if any of you guys want some filters for torches and stuff let me know sizes and i can cut you some out and whack them in the post

[zipdog 0]

personall on rats at close range, less than 20 yards. I just lung/ heart shot them. I dont want to eat them.

[the Verminator 0]

head shot them!

[pointer 543]

always a head shot for me,i never go for a body shot.

 

i like an amber filter better than a red one..........i find it a far easier colour to see in.

 

good luck with your shooting mate

[andyfr1968 772]

I use AA Fields from my Ratty and have no problems with body shots. Heart, lung area drops them well dead!

 

Cheers.

[zipdog 0]

same here mate, chest shots drops them well. Never had one run over 5 yards.

[graniteman 0]

I go for the head everytime mate Where i shoot them they are near there holes And anyother shot and the s..ts manage to crawl back in

Good luck with em mate .

[ghillies 209]

if its .22 go heads every time(head kneck), hmm a ratty, arnt they about 9.5 to 10fps? yeh head um lol.(its a fine art bodd'ing with .177... .22 dont bother).

 

the torch, try using it white first, they'll get used to it after a couple weeks, then dimm it. then the filters after a rest, red's good. then dim the red...(theyll get used to the red too...then it NV gear FOR THE SIGHT OF YOUR LIFE, THEYRE EVERY WHERE WATCHING AND TAKIN THE SAP LOL)

 

or..... leave a perminant light around the bait, doesnt have to be that bright as youll see through the scope ok.(3.5 volt will plenty..2.4v as well.)

dont forget to leave three markers.. nearer, first zero(what ever that is the 10 yard one), and one further.. if its just through the scope veiwing you'll lose track sooner or later, its a weird and wanderfull world looking through a scope all night lol... on lamp or for best results try NV goggles... after a few weeks what you think in green isnt wat it's like by day lol...............................have fun.

 

(if theyre ignoring the butter next to the mountain of grain... put half a jug piles here and there just outside the mountain, light with a very gentle light and check around the piles then lamp the main frame....

 

ohhh... watch out for the spooker (sniggers) one will gently meander on over and start scaring yu lolool for real yeh!, look hi and low, it'll have a perch or two where it can watch you...you'll be pleased when yu find that sitty lol.

Edited July 7, 2009 by ghillies

[zipdog 0]

can i ask why body shot with .177 and not .22. I would say other way round. Bigger pellet, more damage etc for a .22

Edited July 7, 2009 by zipdog

[ellir0305 9]

well ghillies you lost me after 'dont forget to leave three markers'

 

but sounds like good advice up to there lol

 

i got my filter stuff today seems quite good, now im waiting on my silencer and torch, they are still taking the butter next door and nibbled the butter on the fenn so should get him tonight when hes licking off the rest.

 

plenty of evidence they have been on the grain pile even though its only been there a few nights. cant wait to get at them.

[ghillies 209]

ellir

 

the peanut butters one mark... a white brick or wat ever nearer to you and one further away then the food... the dark muddles distance sooner or later,

and sometimes when theyre used to grain, or corn or wat ever they dont like new foods.... so if theyre feeding on the grain then put neat little piles about with a skittering of lose stuff, they like a little private mountain of food lol..espetialy if theres conflict happening.

 

the odd rat takes to playing a ghost matey...its quite coman, you'll enjoy the first 10 or so scares hahahaha then you'll get even lol.

 

 

zip dog

 

i shoot with .177, never had a problem with bod shots on rats, as long as theres one presenting its self, i tried a .22 for a couple months (every night every other night) on rats...gave up on bod shots in the first week...could have bin me.. but eather way they wernt dead lol intill the .177 came out to play.(the .22 did do a very dromatic and noisey head smack though...looked really impresive........quite loud!)

Edited July 7, 2009 by ghillies