Your article brings back memories of me and my cousins shooting rats and ground hogs in my grandfather's corn field. We use BB guns .177 pellet guns, and .22 rifles with shorts. Those rats even jumped off the corn stalks when hit!!
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Your article brings back memories of me and my cousins shooting rats and ground hogs in my grandfather's corn field. We use BB guns .177 pellet guns, and .22 rifles with shorts. Those rats even jumped off the corn stalks when hit!!
Here in the Klamath Basin shooting of "rats" is considered a spring ritual. The rats, Belding Ground Squirrels, wreck havoc on the farmer's alfalfa fields.
Tim
I had a family of rats move into the back corner our backyard one winter under a poolside deck. We had a bird feeder also which was closer to the house which I am sure they got into at night. They also liked the berries from our yo-pon shrub which they ate early in the morning.
Rats are evidently near sighted because if I saw one sitting up munching berries in the morning I could sneak out our patio door and rest my pellet gun on on our patio table without disturbing them.
The distance was about 45 feet and I did not let any get back to the family and tell the others what was going on. There are indeed good jumpers. I got 7 over a period of about 2 weeks before they were gone
Duckster - Most of the guys I know just call them squeaks because of the noise they make. Back in Utah they called them Potguts.
Tim
Nice trip down memory lane JC. That and Lady Fisher's use of the word "doozy" brought back some great memories. (Some of you "geezers" or is it "old geezers", may remember a TV show called Hazel where the word was used continuously).
Shooting rats at the local dump was a recurring activity for me. And jump they did!
Rick
Hit 'em with a 223 and they don't jump at all.
I shoot rats around here all the time. I use my blowgun, or slingshot.
It is a blast, and does a public service as well.
Here's how to ruin a rats day:
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Adios, Sniffles!
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My sometimes rat-hunting companions:
Bruno
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....and Stormy.
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Take me home, Country Roads---
Thanks for the memories of my youth JC. Your article brought a flood of pleasant recollections from my memory banks. Kids and their BB guns.
Larry :D ---sagefisher---