War of the Rats

[Speedbag]

Sounds like fun, wish I was a little closer. 

On the edge of my hometown, there used to be the ruins of an old poor farm, all dilapidated and overgrown. Once in a while, when the mood struck, a couple of friends and I would visit its basement after dark, armed with .22 short pistols and flashlights. Nothing quite beats the intensity of rat hunting by flashlight in a freakishly creepy old basement. 

[ungeheuer]

It will be up to Grandpa Rat to disabuse the poor child of all its parents' idiotic fantastical and craptastical notions of Bambi-Land

[RAT900]

Unge....I can think of no other plausible or rational explanation for why I am still alive walking the earth instead of fertilizing it

I have done precious little in the way of commending my personal longevity over the course of this lifetime

...he was meant to be a true member of our savage bloodline...

I believe this may be my ultimate commission granted by God

and then I can die once and for all

[ungeheuer]

Unge....I can think of no other plausible or rational explanation for why I am still alive walking the earth instead of fertilizing it

I have done precious little in the way of commending my personal longevity over the course of this lifetime

...he was meant to be a true member of our savage bloodline...

I believe this may be my ultimate commission granted by God

and then I can die once and for all

Wait. You completely lost me there. I think I need to go get me another beer. BRB

[Scooter Montgomery]

You can host the second D.M.F.C.I.M.B.Y.

see Getting Rid of Birds thread.

[RAT900]

Wait. You completely lost me there. I think I need to go get me another beer. BRB

making the grandchild normal (relatively speaking)

[The Bacon Junkie]

3 of them, 4 if you count the .22WMR....WMR is scoped and the other 3 are heavy barrel match rifles dialed in for 100 yards with Lyman or Redfield match aperture sights, 3 clicks down and you'll be at 25 yards....sub-moa at 100 so you won't miss

Lapua and RWS match ammo for the 22's and for the 22wmr we have hornady prairie dog detonator rounds...a few thousand...come on over

we can also get snake-shot rounds for shooting them on the run...we can post at the kitchen windows above the basement door...snake-shot might be better due to urban bullet travel considerations

also have the silenced Gamo .22 caliber air rifle w/gold pellet supply...I want to see if it has the penetrating power....needs sighting-in though

now if I could find some cheap night vision gear I would be set

I don't really know much about guns, to be honest.  I found an 1886 Springfield in a crawlspace of an apartment I lived in back in Connecticut a long time ago. 

So I took it to a gunsmith.  He told me it was a "Rolling Block" with a flip-top breach(?) and all it needed was a good cleaning and a firing pin.  He x-rayed it to make sure it wouldn't blow up.   He gave it back to me with a handfull of .45-70 rounds. I bought two more boxes. 

It was the first gun I ever shot, besides a bb or pellet, and oh Lordy was I unprepared!

But despite all the noise, smoke, recoil, etc... I hit what I was aiming for.   Turned out I was a pretty decent shot with those old-timey iron sights.   

So, it sounds like I'll do okay with your fancy shooters. 

[KnightofNi]

i'm feeling evil...if i can get myself moved in somewhere or extend my time at the current apt i'll be down next weekend with smoke bombs to either flush them out or asphyxiate them.





actually that gives me an idea. if we can hook up a blower and get enough smoke we can find all their exits. cover each one to make sure they don't get away.

wonder if a flame thrower type device could be....wait. how close are the neighbors?

[AJ]

i'm feeling evil...
wonder if a flame thrower type device could be....wait. how close are the neighbors?

RAT plus Knight vs. the rodent horde?!?

[cokey]

I'm down too..

[KnightofNi]

RAT plus Knight vs. the rodent horde?!?

remember in the movie Wanted how he finally took out the bad guys?
i'm thinking that would be fun too.


rat, you will need a new shed and might as well go ahead and plan the pool.

[Bladecutter]

Here's how I would do it:

Seal up the shed as much as you can, but leave one exit just big enough for one rat to squeeze through at a time, a couple inches off the ground level. A 1/3" hole is about perfect. Use the expanding foam insulation to seal up the shed as best as you can. Its fairly cheap, and sets quick.

Then drill another hole, and hook up a hose to your car, truck, van, bus exhaust pipe, and have one person run the engine to 50% max rpms to fill up the Rodent Motel with fumes.

Other people sit outside the 1/3" exit hole with guns ready, and alternate between shooters for every rat that comes out.
If there's 3 people, each one is responsible for his rat.

After about 10 minutes, you should have enough dead rats on the outside and the inside of the shed to make you a happy person.

Repeat once every week.

BC.

[RAT900]

This is the shit that gives me nightmares

and my rats are pretty close in size to these make the beast with two backsers

Heading back down on Sunday with the scoped Gamo .177 Whisper

and 2 fresh packs of Raptor Pellets

hopefully I will have some trophy pictures to post

my kitchen window has a clear field of fire on their base of operations and their field of play


Giant Russian Rat Attacks Cats [HQ]

[lethe]

This is the shit that gives me nightmares

and my rats are pretty close in size to these make the beast with two backsers

Heading back down on Sunday with the scoped Gamo .177 Whisper

and 2 fresh packs of Raptor Pellets

hopefully I will have some trophy pictures to post

my kitchen window has a clear field of fire on their base of operations and their field of play


Giant Russian Rat Attacks Cats [HQ]

I like one of the comments on Youtube: "Why is everything opposite in Russia?"

[Mother]

It's clear to me now that you will require one of these to deal with your rat problem