Stupid Rats...i Showed Them, But Forgot Rule Number One :-(

[RemyBolt 420]

Okay, it's nearly 4am now, and I've returned home from ratting, my usual weekend starter.

 

Well, it would seem that I have caused a hell of a lot of damage to the rat population around my friend's chicken farm.

 

First up I was at 'house' 10. Saw a rat poke his head out of a hole, right next to a feed line. Well, needless to say, that a chunk of metal smashed through his face didn't do him much good. A clean kill...but then he fell back into the hole he was poking out of. First unretrievable body of the night. The lovely dent in the wall just behind the hole is testament to the power of my lovely little Gamo springer. Really impressed with this gun. Cheap and cheerful. I really should have waited until the rat was well out of the hole, before I shot it. Could have had an early retrieve, but also it wouldn't act as a warning for other rats behind the wall. Rule number 1...patience. I really should have thought before I pulled the trigger.

 

After being sat there, for another 40 minutes, not a sound from another rat. Nothing. So I decide to change location.

 

I pop over to the lovely 'killing house'...house 4.

 

Set up by the cage, and am quickly met by some glowing eyes. Lovely clean shot. A little helicopter tail. Happy me. Kill number 2 for the night, but it's half way down a huge long egg-belt. No chance of me getting that back.

 

The next shot was slightly hurried, playing around at the bottom of the cage. The pellet slightly nudges the edge of the metal grid. It's inevitable after a while. But that hit the rat hard, and put him down. Not instant, but within a few seconds. A second shot just to make sure the little bugger isn't suffering, helped sooth my conscience.

 

I wait out for a while and hear another load of squeaking.

 

As it turns out, one of the rats decided it was time to climb up the grid over the window, then lose his footing and dangle for a while.

 

Needless to say, the little thing had a quick end to his embarrassment of slipping and dangling there.

 

The shot took it out, and dropped it outside the house. When I eventually went round to see it, it had fallen into a hole outside and was only just retrievable.

 

Last of all, went under the house and saw a rat running the pillars. He flew into his hole, and I couldn't get the shot.

 

Oddly, he then waited there and kept looking out. Well, that wasn't the best plan he ever had. I slid my shot straight through the side of his head. When he fell....I don't know where the hell he came out of the wall. It was a clean shot, but there was not a retrievable body.

 

But you know what? After that, there was little to no sound of rats. I know it wasn't all me, but I do like to feel I made a pretty big dent in the rat population of the farm.

[j j m 6,540]

good shooting

[RemyBolt 420]

Thanks J J M.

 

I wanted to come back with double figures. I usually refuse to leave unless I get that. But the paths they were taking and the holes they were using had changed hugely from the last time, so I was pretty much just sat watching nothing for most of the evening. Ended up getting bored and heading home.

 

The manager likes me to just say where the bodies are, and not retrieve them. I think I'll be having a word with him and just getting a bucket and litter picker grabber thing. It will be good fun to start loading a bucket with bodies.

 

I know it's bad, but it would be good fun if they were infested. I really hope they're not, for everyone there, but it would provide a more productive evening for me.

[armdog 196]

good write up mate, we used to feed rats on my mates allotment so they would be where we wanted em, we then stood in a shed and shot out of window, dont know whether our feeding ment more rats than would have been there but we had some cracking bags