When I was a youngster, we used to have rat killin's (ala Jerry Clower!) all the time out at the corn crib next to the barn. We used BB guns, .22 rifles, and our homemade blowguns. Like JC, we also used to shoot rats at a dump; not the city dump, but at a dump a distillery used to have behind the plant on the banks of the Ohio River near Owensboro, KY. We also used to fish the river in the vicinity of the discharge of the distillery. Way back then, the distillery used to pump their used mash into the river, attracting nearly every catfish, buffalo, carp and gizzard shad in that part of the river. I once caught a 39 pound bigmouth buffalo there on cooked macaroni! That was years ago, well before I was made aware of any type of fishing other than baitfishing. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, JC!