Rats.

[MattSirrell]

Heyy.

 

I have a rat problem and the ******* seem to be avoiding the traps.

So I have decided to shoot it. Im used to target practicing in the garden.

What type of bait should I use and if I place it outside of the hole. How long would it take for it to come out?

Cheers :unsure:

[Paul in North Lincs.]

the smellier the better............tuna sardines are a killer........

 

how long it takes for ratty to appear..all depends on how well honed your field craft skills are...........ratty is a sharp as a razor and will not appear if he can smell seel or sence you...................

[lord_seagrave]

Try freezing a block of corned beef or tinned cat/dog food (minus the tin) and setting that out.

 

The important thing about rat bait is that it must stay in one place, and keep them busy. Nothing keeps them busier than licking the defrosted bits on one of these!

 

Best of luck,

 

LS

[monkeyjaimz]

liquidised cat food or peanut butter are great, they cant be dragged away and roland has to sit and trough in situe as it were :unsure:

also, dont know if your aware of it, but if you can get fairly close to him, try loaded your pellet backwards - has a similar effect to a hollow point bullet (splat)

[stubby]

rather than putting a pellet in backwards and risking sodding up the rifling in ya barrel, why not just buy/use hollow point pellets?:unsure:

[Mark M]

rather than putting a pellet in backwards and risking sodding up the rifling in ya barrel, why not just buy/use hollow point pellets?

This makes very good sense to me :unsure:

[monkeyjaimz]

rather than putting a pellet in backwards and risking sodding up the rifling in ya barrel, why not just buy/use hollow point pellets?

This makes very good sense to me :unsure:

 

I've never heard of it doing any damage to the rifling of any barrel

it will however, cause far more damage to a rat at around 20 yrds than any hollow point pellet

If anyone on here has done this in the past and as a result damaged their rifle then I invite them to let us all know, but like I said I've never heard of it and I know plenty of people who do it when getting shut of rats.

In fact I recall a recent thread regarding rats when someone else suggested the same tip

[BSA Shaun]

Rotting fruit or veg is a good one for ratty, and suprisingly mars bar.

 

[SNAKEBITE]

I am willing to be proved wrong but how can a pellet be accurate when going bacwards?

[Batmancaver]

I am willing to be proved wrong but how can a pellet be accurate when going bacwards?

 

From what I can tell, having done just a few accuracy tests the pellet is fairly accurate for short distances, maybe up to 20m, and after that the accuracy deteriorates.

 

That was using my S200 before I fitted a 10 shot adapter. I did not notice any ill effects to the barrel (it still produces almost 1 shot groupings - depending on me!). With the 10 shot adapter then it was very hard to seat the pellet with the pellet probe so I abandoned the idea.

 

Fortunately, but sadly, my neighbours budgies died and there have been no more rats for a year.

 

Karl

[hellier0437]

pellets are very accurately cast in the factory, therefore the rear of the pellet is very symetrical and will therefore be accurate. however, as the "skirt" produces more drag, the pellet will slow down more quickly and so will become less accurate with distance

[luckytrigger]

Liquidised cat food.. Ive just got another shoot on a dairy farm and as i drove through the yard at early o'clock this morning i saw dozens of rats. An airrifle might be getting purchased shortly!!

[ROBLATCH]

when bailting rats i tend to use the left overs off dinner,it seems to work fine for me.

[berettaman1]

liquidised cat food or peanut butter are great, they cant be dragged away and roland has to sit and trough in situe as it were

also, dont know if your aware of it, but if you can get fairly close to him, try loaded your pellet backwards - has a similar effect to a hollow point bullet (splat)

Yes bud, I used to insert .22 hobby pellets in the way you have advised back in the 80,s with a fac H W 80, as you say up to 20 yards or so It was devasting on rabbits or woodies, but as others have said hollowpoint will do the same job, but for a one or two kill job just reverse the pellet.

[SNAKEBITE]

I am willing to be proved wrong but how can a pellet be accurate when going bacwards?

 

From what I can tell, having done just a few accuracy tests the pellet is fairly accurate for short distances, maybe up to 20m, and after that the accuracy deteriorates.

 

That was using my S200 before I fitted a 10 shot adapter. I did not notice any ill effects to the barrel (it still produces almost 1 shot groupings - depending on me!). With the 10 shot adapter then it was very hard to seat the pellet with the pellet probe so I abandoned the idea.

 

Fortunately, but sadly, my neighbours budgies died and there have been no more rats for a year.

 

Karl

 

I stand corected.

[leeboy]

I am willing to be proved wrong but how can a pellet be accurate when going bacwards?

 

 

You would be surprised ! I haven't tried it over long distance but it works well enough. It also wont harm the rifling of your barrel.

 

It works just as well with bullets too. I read recently that a famous American big game hunter Elmer Kieth experimented with several bullet types being fired backwards and several worked just as good. I think the boat tail type (might be wrong) was the best of the bunch and he shot several animals with the bullet fired backwards.

 

Leeboy

[jacob w h]

I am willing to be proved wrong but how can a pellet be accurate when going bacwards?

 

 

You would be surprised ! I haven't tried it over long distance but it works well enough. It also wont harm the rifling of your barrel.

 

It works just as well with bullets too. I read recently that a famous American big game hunter Elmer Kieth experimented with several bullet types being fired backwards and several worked just as good. I think the boat tail type (might be wrong) was the best of the bunch and he shot several animals with the bullet fired backwards.

 

Leeboy

 

How can a bullet be fired backwards what it the hammer supposed to hit

[berettaman1]

The hammer strikes the cartridge, the cartridge fires, the bullet in the front off the cartridge is expelled at high speed down the barrell towards the target!! .When they talk of putting the bullet in reversed they mean just the bullet head is reversed not the cartridge , some airgunners put the pellet in backwards as it acts as a dum-dum bullet at close range, usually up to 20 yards or so.