activeviii Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Having the same on the rats. Big numbers being shot. Early days I could use red light to shoot, then it was only good to find then and then NV. Now its all NV, spotter and scope. Would be nice to sit and shoot but have to walk about the farm, helps to warm the feet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Excellent shooting Rod, and welcome to PW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) Two words in my mind. TOP CLASS Oh yes i forgot to say i really HATE rats. ATB Youngie Edited March 16, 2015 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 We use to up turn a pig arch and net the front for decoying the crows. They would decoy so close they all but disappear to the dense shot cluster! U. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbw1shrops Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Welcome to the forum Rod , that's a great introduction 👍 Well done Atb Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Apparently it is rats by night on that pig farm and huge numbers of crows by day! We saw loads of them at the spilled pig pellets in front of the pens when we arrived at sunset. Just have to figure out how best to approach those crows with no cover, but probably my 4x4 netted out will do the job. And... just to add further interest, the same farmer reports hundreds of rabbits with burrows under the hedgerows a few fields away and would like those dealt with also. With the sensitivity of (piglet) stock in close quarters it will always be a sub 12 ft lb air rifle shoot though. If I was closer to home, (instead of a 160 mile round trip), then I would be over there on a very regular basis with the guy who has the permission. In the meantime, I'll satisfy myself with what is basically mixed rough shooting on my local farm permissions. One of those has hundreds of crows too. Extremely wary crows! I can't get anywhere near close enough to them. They congregate out in the middle of a large open field, and scare when anything moves within 200 yards of them. But I am working on it. Cheers Rod I used to shoot crows on a local pig farm. The Farmer used to leave an unused semi circular corrugated pig pen for me blocked off both ends with a hurdle so the pigs couldn't get in it . Just used to drape the camo net over it and lay inside on a blow up Li-lo with the logun on a harris and pop off the crows as they alighted next to the feeder troughs...Farmer trusted me not to shoot the pigs. Most I ever had in one day was 87. and he actually gave me a pound a bird. Probably 10+ times that though visiting a 30 acre field at the time. A thousand crows feeding 7 days a week cant half get through some pellets. If you can get some straw bales in the field and leave them there for a week or two, get there at first light you should be able to get past their wariness. That's excellent Rat shooting by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodN Posted March 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Thanks Mike. Some good ideas there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Well jell!! I would happily blat rats all night long. Nice going and welcome chap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 I used to shoot crows on a local pig farm. The Farmer used to leave an unused semi circular corrugated pig pen for me blocked off both ends with a hurdle so the pigs couldn't get in it . Just used to drape the camo net over it and lay inside on a blow up Li-lo with the logun on a harris and pop off the crows as they alighted next to the feeder troughs...Farmer trusted me not to shoot the pigs. Most I ever had in one day was 87. and he actually gave me a pound a bird. Probably 10+ times that though visiting a 30 acre field at the time. A thousand crows feeding 7 days a week cant half get through some pellets. If you can get some straw bales in the field and leave them there for a week or two, get there at first light you should be able to get past their wariness. That's excellent Rat shooting by the way. Good idea FM. FM, was that the blow up LiLo with benefits you once mentioned before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwizard Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 No hide or shelter of any kind. Just a fold up comfy camping chair sat out in the open, about 15 yards from the nearest pig pen. Obviously, I just sat still and didn't go tramping around. Cocking the rifle was no problem (it is an HW100T so pretty quiet). Even the shot is just a "click" from the HW100T, with a correspunding "clunk" as the pellet hits. But that didn't scare the rats away. No lamps..... just an infra red Nite-Site Viper. There is a little glare back from the screen, and I removed the dark filter from the screen too, as that enabled me to turn the infra red down low to prolong the battery life of the unit. I do use a head torch (single low output red LED) to see what I am doing reloading the magazines, but that's all. I don't get on with white or even red lamps. I find that rats get pretty skittish if you light them up, most probably because of the moving shadows though, as they get used to a constant light from a security light in the garden when I pop them off there, but I still prefer infra red and apparent total darkness even in the garden. Cheers Rod Well done , and thanks for that , I have only used a lamp at night but do find them very skittish , have thought about infra red night light but cost puts me off ,particularly as I only night shoot in reasonably warm weather nowadays ,not all year round . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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