picked up....a little

[half n' half 8]

well on a cold night and after a visit from the 'professional' pest controler things picked up a little.

the owner did give the 'pro' a mouthfull asking him why when he is paying him i have managed to shoot 100 plus rats in the last fortnight.

[Buster321c 1,010]

Well done you , always good to keep a tally of what your doing , as you know , it pays off

[psb_74 0]

Well done, The place must be over run with them

[Phantom 631]

The colds gonna bring in more of em for yah

 

How many couldn't you retrieve today

 

Good going again buddy

Looks like you cut one 's throat rather than shot it

 

SPA

 

Phantom

[half n' half 8]

The colds gonna bring in more of em for yah

 

How many couldn't you retrieve today

 

Good going again buddy

Looks like you cut one 's throat rather than shot it

 

SPA

 

Phantom

 

funny thing is phantom i shot eight and managed to retrieve all eight bodies.

i've achieved the unachievable there mate have i not.

[pointer 543]

Is that all you got.shame on you.

[tx200hc 0]

well done mate...

 

ive been rat shooting before and left 3 rats under a shovel walked 100yards to the van for a tea on the way back i saw another rat dragging 1 of the dead rats away..

 

done well to retieve them all mate..

[Phantom 631]

So things aint picking up for you then?

 

When you said "Picked up....a little" I didn't realize you were talking about the baby on the top row :11:

 

Its a crying shame we are not allowed into the actual pens or climb up onto the roofs of the pig sheds

Our recovery rate would skyrocket

 

Phantom

[half n' half 8]

So things aint picking up for you then?

 

When you said "Picked up....a little" I didn't realize you were talking about the baby on the top row :11:

 

Its a crying shame we are not allowed into the actual pens or climb up onto the roofs of the pig sheds

Our recovery rate would skyrocket

 

Phantom

 

so what exactly is your recovery rate mate?

[Phantom 631]

so what exactly is your recovery rate mate?

 

As most of mine are shot at the far end of the pens that we are not allowed to enter or along the (what I affectionately name the R1 Highway) guttering between the Fattening sheds and the Farrowing Shed, its very low

 

Going by the number of pellets left in my jacket (I always start with 40 for the PCP) after last night, I had 30 shots, I deffinately missed 6 of them

 

Recovery was very poor

Dillan; (after we sorted out a problem with his 100 began to bag up again), I don't know how may he shot, but he had a fair few judging by the multiple blood splatter marks around a couple of the open drains

The Farm manager is well chuffed with our efforts

He's the one who goes round with the propper PPE collecting the bodies we leave in the pens.

 

I can't be assed to do a seperate thread, so heres the pix of the few recoveries for you. You will notice the smallest is a little 'flat' looking, that is the one that went under my right size 10

 

Group shot (poor 6 recovered)

 

Close up of the deflated one

 

 

Second Largest of the night

(biggest fell down a drain after being shot in the chest)

 

Close up so you can see the size against the measure

Just under 18.5 inch

The other two medium/largeish measured a tad over the 18 inch

 

Now can I have the 2nd SP back please as I hit the "+" by accident

 

Phantom

 

Edited November 11, 2010 by Phantom

[half n' half 8]

so what exactly is your recovery rate mate?

 

As most of mine are shot at the far end of the pens that we are not allowed to enter or along the (what I affectionately name the R1 Highway) guttering between the Fattening sheds and the Farrowing Shed, its very low

 

Going by the number of pellets left in my jacket (I always start with 40 for the PCP) after last night, I had 30 shots, I deffinately missed 6 of them

 

Recovery was very poor

Dillan; (after we sorted out a problem with his 100 began to bag up again), I don't know how may he shot, but he had a fair few judging by the multiple blood splatter marks around a couple of the open drains

The Farm manager is well chuffed with our efforts

He's the one who goes round with the propper PPE collecting the bodies we leave in the pens.

 

I can't be assed to do a seperate thread, so heres the pix of the few recoveries for you. You will notice the smallest is a little 'flat' looking, that is the one that went under my right size 10

 

Group shot (poor 6 recovered)

 

Close up of the deflated one

 

 

Second Largest of the night

(biggest fell down a drain after being shot in the chest)

 

Close up so you can see the size against the measure

Just under 18.5 inch

The other two medium/largeish measured a tad over the 18 inch

 

Now can I have the 2nd SP back please as I hit the "+" by accident

 

Phantom

 

 

i personaly find shot rats that aren't picked up promptly in pig pens don't need picking up next day as the pigs eat them.

[zini 1,939]

I find these rat posts really cool.

 

I'm not very experienced when it comes to rat shooting, its been a quick and steep learning curve this Summer just gone for me.

 

Only normally done a bit here and there but not loads, but I'm with Tony here.

 

Out of the ones I shot Summer just gone and that was lots I only probably managed to collect maybe 50 to 70 percent of them due to different reasons.

 

Some may say that if I didn't collect the bodies then it doesn't count, well that's fair enough but I know that when I put 16 grains of lead in a rats KZ it's dead body collected or not.

 

Anyway just got to say rats are now my favourite air gun quarry, it's addictive shooting.

 

Si

[half n' half 8]

I find these rat posts really cool.

 

I'm not very experienced when it comes to rat shooting, its been a quick and steep learning curve this Summer just gone for me.

 

Only normally done a bit here and there but not loads, but I'm with Tony here.

 

Out of the ones I shot Summer just gone and that was lots I only probably managed to collect maybe 50 to 70 percent of them due to different reasons.

 

Some may say that if I didn't collect the bodies then it doesn't count, well that's fair enough but I know that when I put 16 grains of lead in a rats KZ it's dead body collected or not.

 

Anyway just got to say rats are now my favourite air gun quarry, it's addictive shooting.

 

Si

 

well there's one thing we can agree on,rat shooting is adictive

[half n' half 8]

so what exactly is your recovery rate mate?

 

As most of mine are shot at the far end of the pens that we are not allowed to enter or along the (what I affectionately name the R1 Highway) guttering between the Fattening sheds and the Farrowing Shed, its very low

 

Going by the number of pellets left in my jacket (I always start with 40 for the PCP) after last night, I had 30 shots, I deffinately missed 6 of them

 

Recovery was very poor

Dillan; (after we sorted out a problem with his 100 began to bag up again), I don't know how may he shot, but he had a fair few judging by the multiple blood splatter marks around a couple of the open drains

The Farm manager is well chuffed with our efforts

He's the one who goes round with the propper PPE collecting the bodies we leave in the pens.

 

I can't be assed to do a seperate thread, so heres the pix of the few recoveries for you. You will notice the smallest is a little 'flat' looking, that is the one that went under my right size 10

 

Group shot (poor 6 recovered)

 

Close up of the deflated one

 

 

Second Largest of the night

(biggest fell down a drain after being shot in the chest)

 

Close up so you can see the size against the measure

Just under 18.5 inch

The other two medium/largeish measured a tad over the 18 inch

 

Now can I have the 2nd SP back please as I hit the "+" by accident

 

Phantom

 

 

never really thought about measuring the rats i shoot mate,i'm too busy counting the amount

gottcha

[zini 1,939]

Half your a funny chap buddy .

 

You make me smile .

 

We need hunters like you in the section to give us some moral .

 

I'd love to go out shooting with you buddy one day, from how you are I'm sure that I'd learn so much from you bud .

 

Maybe if you get the invite to the next meet we can shoot together pal, would be fun.

 

Who knows I might even surprise myself and teach you something new .

 

Atb

 

Si

Edited November 12, 2010 by zini