Rat Patrol

[PeskyWabbits 464]

I was on Rat Patrol last night. I didn't want to stay out all night as it was cold enough 9pm till 11pm ( I know, soft lad). The gritter had been round the roads and my experience is that you don't see many rats when it is very cold as they prefer to stay in the warmth. It depends how hungry they get.

Anyway. I only saw the one. It was at about 10pm. It ignored my Nutella/veg oil surprise and was looking for the mixed corn duck feed. 

About 20 yards, Air Arms Diablo Field .22 from an HW100 KT with a Photon XT.

I made all that money I have spent on rifles, scopes, lights, clothes and all that time sat waiting in the cold, worthwhile.  I did, I am really pleased. I might have to go out tonight as well.

 

Pesky

 

[Jonjon79 13,358]

A dead one's a good one mate

 

I do like the way a .22 belts rats

[PeskyWabbits 464]

It made quite a loud thwack and rolled the rat over.

[Walkingthedog 5]

Nice shooting a good rat is a dead rat.

[mattwhite 1,993]

Shot pal?

Your better off out and shooting one or even none that sat in watching crap on the box?

[si brown 8,486]

nice one pesky

I use a photon and .22 for ratting

excellent combo for round the farms.... I'm with you on the couple of hours when its cold though!

sh1t fun freezing your nuts off

atb si 

[PeskyWabbits 464]

It wasn't all good news though. My T20 fell off the side of the Photon and vanished into 4 inches of duck shitty mud.

I dug it out with a stick and rinsed it in the sink. I think it survived.

I was looking at Jimmy's pictures of his set up. Mine is a cheaper non-adjusting mount on the same place.

 

It struggles to get enough grip and just slides off. I am looking at other methods.

The inbuilt IR is a bit feeble. 

[Outback 1 26]

Get your self the figure of 8 clamp from clive ward and mount it on the tube at the top it makes the weight better to not one sided .

Cheers

[si brown 8,486]

This is the mount I use to use on my xt pesky!

it was a bit of a pain to seat properly but once it was on it was sound

its got the reducer witch works well cos you can juggle it so the beam centres the scope!

The rt I got to replace the xt has a better ir

so I’ve not needed an extra and the weaver rail is a lot chunkier 

atb si

Ps... I dropped my mag in a load of rat pi55 and cow sh1t the other week  

[PeskyWabbits 464]

Si, I like that one, it has an offset and a proper nut to get it proper tight.

 

[si brown 8,486]

18 minutes ago, PeskyWabbits said:

Si, I like that one, it has an offset and a proper nut to get it proper tight.

 

found this on Amazon same as mine

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/GoHiking-Tactical-Cantilever-Pincatinny-Perfect/dp/B0713ZJ5WH/ref=sr_1_13?s=sports&ie=UTF8&qid=1510690413&sr=1-13&keywords=Cantilever+Scope+Mount

but this one on fleabay looks good, should be able to get the lamp bang on!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Adjustable-1-Dual-Ring-Cantilever-Scope-Mount-for-Weaver-Rail-Rifle-Hunting/382100037847?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dd82a9de72b2b4f67a52e58bb8d6e7bfc%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D382100037847&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3Ae9d3c34f-c977-11e7-b103-74dbd1801e19%7Cparentrq%3Abc27e45215f0a9c56bbdb625fffe338d%7Ciid%3A1

 

[philpot 4,974]

Nice one Pesky, ratting the sport of kings...........................

With the nights turning cold, the rats are starting to show around the cow feeders although not many yet but I managed 19 in an hour and a half so happy with that. Roll on a few more nights of frost and the buggers will be all over the farm..................................oh dear, that's a shame 

 

Phil