TOM'S DAD Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Here is a photo of Tom with a few Rats shot last night (sorry about the quality, taken with old phone) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Good lad Tom. Good pest control. Frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazza Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 well done Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Thats one happy lad,well done Big fella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chezney Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Single barrel .410 there is it? Top shooting, you can't buy those kind of smiles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poacher Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 Nice work bud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wol the hunter Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 ratting i love it shooting with air rifle over bait in a barn, or 12g or 410 i love it but my best is smoking them out and letting molly my jrt do the biz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Dog Posted October 26, 2006 Report Share Posted October 26, 2006 Good one Tom. Thought for a moment your dad used the 243 If I had a choice of a weekend shooting and hunting any animal on earth, quarry guaranteed, I would optd for rat hunting every time. I used to hunt them 4-5 evenings a week when I was young and single. I used an air rifle, still have it, and Jack Russels. My dogs were trained to hunt the river banks, either side, bolt them to the water and I always took care of them; the rat I mean (we don't have voles just incase you dare to ask, at least not in my area). Grain silos and meal factors were my local for years. I also had a 5hr and a 3hr session in a very large hen house once the bird went out. Five hours flat out with 5 dogs and a bit of black plastic water pipe. We had to wheel then out in wheel barrow loads. It was my cousins farm and even the following Saturday, I was walking up to a fox hole, my cousin was spreading the hen dung on the field, and my dogs were going mad as the mice flew out the back of the dung spreader; what a laugh and fun, running through a field jumping on mice. Can you imagine how this looked to the cars going past I could write a book, but won't do it here . Tom get someone to buy you for Christmas "Tale of a rat hunting man" I think it is by B. Plumber. Its a great read and somewhere in there is my character Rat are amont the smartist if not the smartist animal I have ever hunted and the only hunt that gets my adrinaline going, not even Roe stalking got that going Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pavman Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Fantastic, what a lot of folk don’t understand is lads like young Tom will grow up with a better appreciation and values of , people and life going about his country pursuits, learning skills of discipline field craft and restraint, its a bit like the forces lads in my work (oilfield) give me ex forces guys every time, they have carried a gun but understand how to get out of bed in the morning a give a days graft with no lip....... Opps, have i gone into one, sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wol the hunter Posted October 27, 2006 Report Share Posted October 27, 2006 Fantastic, what a lot of folk don’t understand is lads like young Tom will grow up with a better appreciation and values of , people and life going about his country pursuits, learning skills of discipline field craft and restraint, its a bit like the forces lads in my work (oilfield) give me ex forces guys every time, they have carried a gun but understand how to get out of bed in the morning a give a days graft with no lip....... Opps, have i gone into one, sorry well said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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