what do u advise

[scottish lurcher 185]

ive have just permision to shot rats and have been using a tx200 for the job but iam looking for a multi shoot air rifle save time loading each pellet as the time i load and shoot missed chance to shoot more what do you guys suggest i use for the job

[AIRGUNNER 1]

AA S410

 

OR

 

ratcatcher

Edited December 6, 2007 by AIRGUNNER

[Deker 3,478]

OK ........an answer you are not going to like!

 

I would go as far as to say you will never STOP rats with a rifle.

 

Control methods are, poison, trapping and a .25 Theoben air rifle or .22Rimmy with shorts or shotshell and a good cat. Using a combination of these you can wipe out the rats but it will still take a lot of doing.

 

Using a conventional air rifle will only ever give you a bit of sport and tend to bring quite a low level of control unless you spend every hour God gives you on the case.

 

There is nothing wrong with the ratcatcher or many other air rifles for the job of sport ratting, if you want to make an impression you will have to do a lot more.

[trappsy 0]

Shooting rats is all about sport, we can get as many as 30 a time on the pig farm, and im talking each, the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats so we havnt a chance, remember that even if you dont kill outright, and the others dont eat em, rats are haemophilliac so they will bleed to death anyway, and to answer your question, any multishot gun is best.

[woodchip 2]

i use my AA S410 IN .177 CAL its great

[davyt63 1,845]

ive have just permision to shot rats and have been using a tx200 for the job but iam looking for a multi shoot air rifle save time loading each pellet as the time i load and shoot missed chance to shoot more what do you guys suggest i use for the job

i use air arms s410 great piece of kit for rats

[Deker 3,478]

Shooting rats is all about sport, we can get as many as 30 a time on the pig farm, and im talking each, the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats so we havnt a chance, remember that even if you dont kill outright, and the others dont eat em, rats are haemophilliac so they will bleed to death anyway, and to answer your question, any multishot gun is best.

 

 

You are a brave man..try saying that on the

 

Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control forum ...and then duck!

[bill88 6]

For out the box performance at indoor ratting,the ratcatcher is the biz,another handy tool for the job would be a BSA ultra multi in .22,but probably a little over powered for indoors.

[bunny bouncer 0]

Has any body tryed the crosman 1077 or the nightstalker

me & a mate used to use both these guns with great results

in the barns we used to shoot in .

12 shots as fast as you can pull the trigger

i know they only do 600 fps but with bisley practice

they stopped a lot of rats

[trappsy 0]

Shooting rats is all about sport, we can get as many as 30 a time on the pig farm, and im talking each, the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats so we havnt a chance, remember that even if you dont kill outright, and the others dont eat em, rats are haemophilliac so they will bleed to death anyway, and to answer your question, any multishot gun is best.

 

 

You are a brave man..try saying that on the

 

Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control forum ...and then duck!

 

the rat popultion in greater london alone is appx 8000.000 so if they know someting the home office does'nt, tell em to get in touch. im sure their ideas would be welcome.

[targa 5]

Save your time and money mate http://journeytoforever.org/at_rattrap3.html

[outshooting 0]

AA410 would be my personal choice of airgun, but if you want some good fun get a couple of dogs & a shotgun

[Deker 3,478]

Shooting rats is all about sport, we can get as many as 30 a time on the pig farm, and im talking each, the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats so we havnt a chance, remember that even if you dont kill outright, and the others dont eat em, rats are haemophilliac so they will bleed to death anyway, and to answer your question, any multishot gun is best.

 

 

You are a brave man..try saying that on the

 

Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control forum ...and then duck!

 

the rat popultion in greater london alone is appx 8000.000 so if they know someting the home office does'nt, tell em to get in touch. im sure their ideas would be welcome.

 

 

Now you are getting a little silly and showing your nievety, we are talking pig farm according to you and I suspect the original post was not referring to London. Regardless of that I and many many others could eradicate the rat from yours and any other farm. If you want to be stupid I could also do it in London given the resources, the simple reason rats rule London is that nobody has come up with the cash to fund a complete removal programme. However, there are many vermin controllers in London who do, on a daily basis remove rats entirely from problem areas. Rat control is a job to most and a sport to the minority. Your comment the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats is ill thought, untrue and insulting.

Edited December 8, 2007 by Deker

[stubby 175]

Shooting rats is all about sport, we can get as many as 30 a time on the pig farm, and im talking each, the best vermin controllers in the world have no idea how to irradicate rats so we havnt a chance, remember that even if you dont kill outright, and the others dont eat em, rats are haemophilliac so they will bleed to death anyway, and to answer your question, any multishot gun is best.

 

 

You are a brave man..try saying that on the

 

Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control forum ...and then duck!

 

the rat popultion in greater london alone is appx 8000.000 so if they know someting the home office does'nt, tell em to get in touch. im sure their ideas would be welcome.

 

true words Deker, the rats in london have another big difference, "parliment and laws" we cant control the shops and pedestrians that dont give a hoot about dumping their rubbish on the streets, fast food outlets etc etc, Im sure on a pig farm, you would have quite a big impact using air rifles (not ratcatcher as still single shot) smokers and terriers, pointless using poison as suggested, as not only would the pigs eat dead rats, result in secondary poisoning, but alot of animal feeds contain vitamin K1 which is the antidot to the poison,

 

in london, we can only put rat bait stations in certain area's, and as prev stated, only if someone is paying for them, in london, rats are seen as someone else's problem

 

go back a number of years, the underground used to have a team of men, walking the underground track, dropping bags of poison every 10yds, result was hardly any rats on the underground,

 

skip forward to the new health and safety laws, that said this was not good, as someone walking the track??? may pick up bag and eat it, so lets not do it anymore, result, your now never more than 10ft away from a rat in london, above or below ground

[fishfish 17]

i occasionally shoot rats with a BSA meteor,i recomend a wad cutter pellet what ever gun yer using.