I'm glad I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the wharf rats some of you mentioned. I'm not a fan of any rodents, not even the little mice that occasionally find their way into the house or the field mice the cat kills. This thing was a giant by comparison and I hope to never see another.
^^^ You do Know there is Never...Ever just 1...Right...
Arm Yerself!!!!
In Australia we have to give the police a "genuine reason" to purchase and own any firearm. When I bought my 58cal BP rifle I told them it was for sabre-toothed field mice.
Hold Still Varmint; while I plugs Yer!
Hillbilly,
What is "Rat Shot" that you used? Was it a reload? If so, what. I handload #6 or #7.5 shot for my farm needs. Be well.
Adam
Late eighties folk bought an old farmhouse to live in, by the garage I discovered a rat over a foot long, no gun around but a shovel turned the rat off.
The most rats I have ever seen was on the pier at St Thomas, US Virgin Islands. They weren't real big, about like the one pictured in this thread, but there were thousands of them.
The Love Boat (Pacific Princess) was across the pier from us, it is a lot smaller in real life than it appeared to be on TV.
I was standing OOD on the midwatch before transferring off the ship at 0630.
Robert
Factory CCI loads like this https://www.cci-ammunition.com/handg...ll/6-3746.htmlOriginally Posted by Adam Helmer
We always called it rat shot
Funny you mention that. My grandmother grew up on a farm and kept a big garden hoe with an adze eye that she could wield like a battle ax. Snakes, rats, possums, etc. - didn’t make any difference…she had this big overhand swing like a circus maul. Saw it with my own eyes more than once.
My grandfather was always the one with a gun, but he never got in her way.
In the 1960s every small town in eastern Ohio had a city dump that at night was full of rats
a .22 rifle and a large flashlight or car headlights worked well
Now city dumps are a thing of the past except some cities have become Dumps
An old teacher told me the use of the 1911 45 (WWII Pacific) was predominantly to kill Warf rats. They couldn't get tommy guns for dock patrol.
Whatever!
In the mid 70's one of my best friend's Dad ran the grain elevator, and he would let us kids hunt rats at night in the boot pit, under the dumping floor and scale. Rats running around everywhere on the huge wooden beams and iron braces above our heads. All we could use were BB guns, and we hit them, not sure how many died. Pretty creepy under there with our crappy old flash lights. Don't be the last one up the ladder, or one of your buddies would close the trap door on you, and stand on it for a few minutes, before they let you out!
22 short hollow points and rats go together like peas and carrots.
Not at any Farm I been to...You put a hole in the Barn...Yer Fired...after you Repair said Hole!!!
I started hearing scratching in my house's crawlspace a few years back. I put my racoon live trap in the crawlspace with a rat trap inside it just in case it was squirrels. The next day I pulled my trap out there was a rat in it that was the length of the trap. 30" counting the tail. Probably every bit of 14" of body. Big as my deer head chihuahua or a really big red squirrel. Breeding parts as big as an English walnut.
My brain could not compute what I was looking at and it freaked me out so much all I could think to do was get it out of my sight and I hauled it down and threw it down a holler w/o taking a pic. Totally regret not taking a pic of that beast but it really messed with my head. When I picked him up his weight tore the skin on his tail.
Next night I caught Ms Rat. She got her nose hit by the rat trap but had tripped the live trap and was bouncing around in it trying to eat me up when pulling the trap out. I shot her in the head with a .22. Took a pic of her. Caught 2 babies over the next 2 days. Both a little smaller than the OP's ratto.
Mama rat below. I have very wide hands BTW. Really, really hate that daddy rat freaked me out too much to take a pic. He was huge!
Dan Wesson 744V .44mag, S&W Mod 19-4 .357 , Stevens 200 .223
Oh. Excuse me.
I don't understand the reference above..But...I have Never even thought about putting holes in Our, nor Others Barns..Oh. Excuse me.
My miniature manchester terrier killed a rat that used to get into the dog and chicken feed in the barn when I was a kid. The rat could open the trash can lids holding the feed. When he had killed the rat, he tried to bring it to me for show and tell. When he straddled it only his legs on one side could touch the ground at a time. He was a very determined dog. I hear Baltimore has some very large rats.
I was a grain inspector. I saw rats by the hundreds. Poison traps everywhere, but there was so much grain to eat that it didn't get rid of many.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand
Living in a hole [bunker] in Southeast Asia had to be careful not to get eaten on by some big ole rats while sleeping.
My 1st cousins husband was on the border between South and North Vietnam and while he was asleep one night a rat took a bit bite out of his toe. Ended up in the hospital for a couple of weeks while they pumped him full of anti-biotics. He hated rats after that. james
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