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Many moons ago...
There were about 6 or 8 of us that were cleaning out an old house. The owners had passed away and their kids wanted everything they didn't want thrown away.
We got the city to set a dumpster and over a 2 day period, we cleaned house. At the end of the second day, the city came and got the dumpster and as it was lifted up, a large rat appeared from a hole under it. Since we were standing around in a near circle, the rat didn't have a way to run and sat there snarling at us. One of us pulled out a .22 pistol and aimed it at the rat. (The rest opened up so we wouldn't get hit.)
Someone said later that the bullet went through the rat but that only made it angry and chased the shooter up a tree! The rest of us were laughing so hard at his screaming that we couldn't do anything to save him. Finally, the rat ran off and we assumed died in the woods.
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Unless you can borrow a few Jack Russel Terriers................
You need to kill them with a weapon like that. 22. pointed pellets will do it too w/ out the report of a rifle. Mad Dog
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I grew up on a farm, and when you got the wooden silo almost empty, it was down inside about a six foot deep concrete ring. There was almost always a couple rats in there at that point, and I'm telling you what... they were nasty.
We had a little cocker spaniel mutt who would have fought an elephant, and I'd put him in there. He always prevailed, but one time there were two rats in there that worked on him at once, and they scuffed him up pretty good before he got em.
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Or....
use a have-a-heart trap. Rodent favorite is a peanut-butter ball rolled in black sunflower seeds. We relocated more than a dozen monks this fall. One squirrel was trapped too, & that raised the issue of how to safely release an animal from a have-a-heart trap!
A good weapon in urban settings is a high-powered pellet/BB-gun while using sharp-pointed pellets. Good range too.0 -
I trapped a raccoon in a Hav-A-Hart trap
I drove it to a wooded reservation well after dark to release it and an environmental police officer happened by. He asked what I was doing and informed me that releasing, at least in MA, carried a $1,000 fine. The concern is spreading rabies and how would you like it if someone dumped a raccoon on your property.... the law is the law... Such an animal has to be destroyed on the site unless released by a licensed pest control company or officer.
So I told the good officer that we (the raccoon and I) were actually dating and were 'parking'. Being Massachusetts, he seemed to buy that.
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HA!
"So I told the good officer that we (the raccoon and I) were actually dating and were 'parking'. Being Massachusetts, he seemed to buy that."
That last part didn't even make me blink.
Wildlife officials tried some LARGE versions of these "Have-a-Hart" traps in Glacier a few years ago to re-locate "problem" grizzlies. Basically it's a piece of culvert pipe with steel caging at one end and a trap door at the other. After the bear is trapped, they drive them to a more remote location for release. (Can't have the bears eatin' all of the Griswolds marshmallows!) Most times the bears just run off once the trap door is opened. SOMETIMES the bear decides to attack the people that trapped them. This usually ends up with a dead bear and a severely wounded wildlife official.
Went to meet a customer this past summer that was getting ready to build a new home and wanted radiant heat. When I got to his house I noticed several H-a-H traps in his yard. He said he was trapping the chipmunks and rabbits and releasing them away from his house because they were destroying his garden. A month later I met him at the site of the new home and when he pulls in to the site he opens the trunk of his car and out come two H-a-H traps. A rabbit in each. He sets them on the ground and opens the door. Out they run. We all sing "BORN FREE!!" (just kiddin) I asked him WHY he was taking rabbits from the house he is leaving and bringing them to the house he will be moving to? DOH!!!!
Mark H
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My Rat Gun
One of two is a 10 1/2 lb Light Varmint benchrest gun. Fiberglas/carbon fiber stock, Bat custom action, [right bolt, left port for loading and right port for ejection], Jewel 1 1/2 oz. trigger, Stainless Steel Hart Barrel with a 45X Leupold scope. Good for rats up to 300 yds. Shot a 4 shot group at a 300 yd match that measured 0.048", the 5th. shot opened it up to 0.849". Caliber 6PPC with a 0.262" neck in the chamber. Second gun same except for a heavier barrel to make weight in the 13 1/2 lb. class. Both guns are hard on barrels, usually last a year or 2-3 thousand rounds.0 -
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another rat story
Twenty years ago my grandmother lived in a civil war era house that wasn't very tight. It had an old fashioned coal furnace with the old coal cellar. On occasion she would have a rodent problem.
On Sundays, my aunts and cousins would gathter in the living room at Grandma's house for an afternoon visit. Grandma sat in the rocker in a corner of the room that faced toward the kitchen door. Since not enough furniture for all eight of us my aunt brought out the folding lawn chair which she placed in front of the doorway to the kitchen.
My grandmother who was partially blind said to everyone, "Who let that little dog into the room?" Everyone looked and underneath the lawn chair stood a big ugly RAT!!! Well my cousins were standing on the back of the sofa with their hands around their necks screaming, "Rats will jump for your throat". My aunts are knocking each other down to be the first out the front door. You never saw a room empty so quickly.
My cousin got the broom and beat the thing to death and swept it out the back door. It had gotten into the d-con and was about on its death bed and was swollen about an extra third of its size.
We all still get a chuckle when the story is mentioned.0 -
If Dans
Insurance premiums are up to date and there is a no gun limit count me in.0 -
My Remmington 1100
I used to do maintenance work for a now closed dairy in NYC. The complaint was that there was milk leaking from an old cast iron hanging waste line under an unloading platform. One of the workers told me that there were too many rats to count under there due to the leaking milk. Next day, my good ole 1100 loaded w/ birdshot and a flash light taped to the barrel was all I needed to "make safe" the theater of operations. "They never re-opened that worthless pit, Just placed a marble stand in front of it"0 -
A rat?
As in one rat?
Here is the alley side basement door to the row home next door in Baltimore. I called the owner of the place and explained that I would normally use my 12 guage Mossberg police special but that she probably should deal with it. Joys of late 1800's buildings. Here they drag the whole garbage can away.
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not quite done yet -
while I am a big fan of the metric calibers - (should be no surprise to anyone about that!) I just rebarrelled a ruger 223 to 300/221. Also known as the whisper 300 - and whisper it does - the neighbours would not even have the notion that the range was open! And the 240 match king prints nicely too - well under an inch subsonic. Be just about right for rodents. I too grew up in farming country - a day at the dump was always a blast - even cleaning out the barn had its moments.0 -
Now this is rat hunting
You should see the size of the little buggers around here, plus no mess to pick up after :-)
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I just use some dcon pellets or regular snap metal trap.
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Now THAT!!
Is something we would have enjoyed immensely back at the old dump. Probably would have been more fun than the dynamite on the old machinery and car bodies..........Dynamite, that brings back some memories.
We had a few sticks there one evening and were setting them up in the sand pile at the far end of the dump and shooting them with our .22 rifles which would set them off when hit squarely. The usual assortment of firearms was at the scene and being the last part of summer, we were honing our skills with the deer rifles. My caliber of choice was the then newly minted 8MM Remington Magnum. Handloads with 225 grn slugs, stoked up pretty well were being used at the time. Well, we had set off a couple sticks and along came a couple kids on their pedal bikes from the small town about a mile away. They said they had heard the noise and wanted to see what was going on. My friend, the resident explosives guru and constant BSer immediately siezed on the opportunity to shovel a bunch on the young lads. He said, "guys, what you've been hearing is my friend Steve's new shoulder fired cannon",......I looked at him kind of like "what the ......" and he said, "Steve, show these kids one of the shells". Now, an 8MM mag is a fairly impressive looking cartridge, especially when you're about 7-8 years old and their eyes grew wide when they looked at the shiny brass and copper tube the size of a small cigar. The next thing my buddy said clicked and I knew what he was up to. "Boy's would you like to see what that cannon does to that dirt pile over there?" (We had just placed another tubular target in the pile) The two lads nodded their heads vehemently and my friend said, "Steve why don't you shoot it into the pile and I'll take the boys to a safe place. At which point he started to really lay on the BS about what was going to happen. Going along with the plot, I assumed a prone position and settled the crosshair on the stick of synamite and touched it off. Of course there was a beautiful KABAM when the Dupont fireworks went off accompanied by a huge gout of dirt launched into the air.
The young'uns were duly impressed to say the least and a little scared maybe to boot. They jumped on their bicycles and high tailed it for home. We didn't think anything of it until about a half an hour later when a patrol car came idling slowly up the trail to the dump. After approaching rather warily and then having a little discussion with us about the appropriate use of dynamite, he told us we should maybe reserve our use of the substnace for more legitimate purposes. We of course humbly agreed and discontinued the use of it...........for that evening. Turned out that the local constabulary had recieved a phone call from the father of one of the boys regarding unknown persons at the local dump with military type weapons. The cop didn't have any idea what he was driving up on or who it was when he came in. After recognizing who we were he became more relaxed as my friend was an EMT at that time and held an explosives license. He had also grown up about a block from my childhood home so he knew me and my family well. Sometimes it is who you know 0 -
I zap 'em
Someone came up with a better mouse/rat trap. I just paid $19.00 for the mouse size unit. Wife said she suspects a mickey/minnie in the house. Didn't want to deal with the conventional snap trap, so I ventured off to the Depot to see what was new in the field of mouse killing equipment and came back with this newfangled electronic mouse killer. Lures'em in with peanut butter and ZAP, they never knew what hit them.
Green blinking light indicates dead mouse on board.
Take it outside, drop it (dead mini/mickey) in the trash and ready to go another round.
Not NEARLY as much fun as unleashing a black powder blunderbuss cannon on it, but a LOT more safer...
What will they think of next....
http://www.ratmousezapper.com/
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struck a chord
this topic seems to have struck a chord . I guess most of us have spent a lot of time in basements and drains.0 -
Here is my solution- A cat....
Like this:
Postal Cat!0 -
Well then
What WILL the rats do???!!!??
Mark H
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I would say
I would say the fact that there are currently 58 posts on a thread dealing with the use of firearms, explosives, poisons, traps, electrocution devices all related to the early and bloody demise of rats, clearly indicates that this is a guy's place.
As such, I feel free to share with all of you the 25 guy rules, (some have seen this on their personal e-mail but it bear repeating)
We always hear the rules from the female side.
Now here are the rules from the male side.
1. Men are NOT mind readers.
2. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.
3. Sunday sports It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides.
Let it be.
4. Shopping is NOT a sport.
And no, we are never going to think of it that way.
5. Crying is blackmail.
6. Ask for what you want.Let us be clear on this one:
Subtle hints do not work!
Strong hints do not work!
Obvious hints do not work!
Just say it!
7. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.
8. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do.
Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
9. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem.....See a doctor.
10. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.
In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
11. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't Expect us to act like soap opera guys.
12. If you think you're fat, you probably are.
Don't ask us.
13. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
14. You can either ask us to do something,
OR tell us how you want it done. Not both.
If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
15. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say during commercials.
16. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither do we.
17. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.
18. If it itches, it will be scratched.
We do that.
19. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will! act li ke nothing's wrong.
We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
20. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, Expect an answer you don't want to hear.
21. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine... Really .
22. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf.
23. You have enough clothes.
24. You have too many shoes.
25. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!0 -
Thats the best Brad
Was laughing so loud I woke my daughters up. Your to much!
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This beast was taken last night with a Beeman model 260 .177 cal @ 40 feet or so. It was lit with red light and came right to the bait...dry dog food.
TimJust a guy running some pipes.0 -
you can have it
with some favre beans and a nice chianti.0
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