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[beargrylls 1]

Just got in from attempting to knock a few rats over in the mothers garden! After 1 sucessful night and two failed nights (last one nothing showed and tonight I rUshed the shot and missed one) the rats are being really skitish Could this be that they know what I'm doing or simply because the conditions were really windy the first time and no wind at all the last two times? Don't' really shoot rats I've heard there timid but coUld I have spoiled my fun with the gun by spooking them and have to get the fenn traps out

Thanks for any info

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[Buster321c 1,010]

mix up some catfood , and codliver oil in a `pop top bottle` . Squirt it where your zero`d at and Bob`s your Mother`s Brother .

[Phantom 631]

Rats can indeed be skitish, and then there are the days/nights where they think their nuts are made of steel and will litterally run at you if not OVER you; my 1st night ratting on a pig farm saw a big fecker jump off a wall run over me and jump off the barrel of my S200!

Then there are the times that I've shot em up the butt and out of their face and then the classic one that was running at me along a pen wall

 

Gotta be my sweetest shot on a Rat

 

 

Tony

[andyfr1968 772]

Rats can indeed be skitish, and then there are the days/nights where they think their nuts are made of steel and will litterally run at you if not OVER you; my 1st night ratting on a pig farm saw a big fecker jump off a wall run over me and jump off the barrel of my S200!

Then there are the times that I've shot em up the butt and out of their face and then the classic one that was running at me along a pen wall

 

Gotta be my sweetest shot on a Rat

 

 

 

Tony

 

I've never seen a Hindu rat before

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Holy rats Batman!

 

Peanut butter is also a good bait for the little feckers, the cheap value crap works just as well as the expensive stuff (been using it in traps)!

[paulk73 151]

i was using peanut butter and cat food in cage traps round some chicken penns, and only getting limeted results. the hens where being fed on stale bread by a lot of the allotment holders. so decided to try bread in the traps, and the results trippled. i even had 5 young greys in 1 cage trap at the same time. lol

[beargrylls 1]

thanks for the replies lads excellent shot phantom! there's still plenty there but Ive certainly put a hole in there numbers (or they just know that with the smell of peanut butter also comes a little led gift from the R10! ) anyway Ive had a live trap down for over 3weeks and the only thing Ive caught is a rather sad looking grey squirrel! i'm sure they will be back in force soon enough though.....and the nite site 50 & r10 will be waiting

[StevoSmith 147]

Thats a cracking shot Tony considering it was comming towards you lol

 

 

LMAO @ Hindu Rat :rofl: :rofl:

[ghillies 209]

Rats can indeed be skitish, and then there are the days/nights where they think their nuts are made of steel and will litterally run at you if not OVER you; my 1st night ratting on a pig farm saw a big fecker jump off a wall run over me and jump off the barrel of my S200!

Then there are the times that I've shot em up the butt and out of their face and then the classic one that was running at me along a pen wall

 

Gotta be my sweetest shot on a Rat

 

 

Tony

 

 

a-haaa, not just me then, i had a few weeks of back flips, i'm taking 2-3 yards backwards and 3-4 feet in the air, they were coming out like a crazy old man who'd had enough 'of you', all up like, then ping another back flip.

 

as for timid, its a version of the young dood hanging out the window poppingthe starlings off, day one hundreds, day two a few day three had to sneek about for a few, a week later if he apeared near a window or garden nothing was around.

 

plus, with gardens they have a multi choise of places to go feeding, a hot cat (dferent to a hot dog which is taisty) apears they go some where else, best survival rate and no real hardship traveling.

 

you might even find they have a good century warning system...take that one out you'll get a couple three that night.

 

as for wild nights? sheeesh wait till one desids to haunt n taunt you......i'm talking pure malice here lol. no bounds to risky.

 

at risk of sounding barmy, i took out two queens from two neibouring pens, the first was just ther like a beaver..well was huge lol, i was passing it over with the NV thinking not a rat too big, the second was like one of the huge obese peeps you see on the telly, woddling around its legs as is moved about, this onehad three gaurds escorting aroud, one legged it, two came at me to sort it.. they died, but not before the second played Matrix pellet dodging, i'm talking three shots and he's sussed the timing, only he forgot when your closer the pellets faster, but for a real it was a stand off..with bad intensions coming my way.

Edited January 26, 2012 by ghillies