[A bit OT] Killing Rats

[Andy Dingley]

I've already done the hand-cranked repeater

[Andy Dingley]

Works fine, but it's hard to find a full clip of ferrets that are accurately matched for calibre.

[Badger]

410, silenced pref, rather than 12, though rolling your own means you can size the shot to suit and the charge for less velocity, cheaper too!

Niel.

[Mary Fisher]

But where do you apply the spunk?

Mary

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[Mary Fisher]

Use rats instead?

Mary

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[Owain]

"Huge" wrote | >Probably took less explaining than when I shot a central | >heating radiator with a home made "cannon" that used | >steel ball bearings and 6mm hilti cartridges. The | > things teenagers get up to Ehh?

Eeh, when Ah were a lad we were too poor for hilti cartridges, we used to catch t'neighbour's dachshund, feed it baked beans for a week then set fire to its farts.

| Except I was in my thirties when I did that ...

Young at heart or late developer?

Owain

[Owain]

"Mary Fisher" wrote | "Bill" wrote | >>Remind me to tell you about the time I shot my car with a crossbow. | Tell us about the time you shot your car with a crossbow. | Please. | And why. | And if you killed it or just winged it.

If he killed it, does that mean he bumpered it off?

I expect we'll get tyred of this thread soon and give it the boot.

Owain

[Pete C]

Hi,

Does the shed have a wooden floor over bare earth, which is giving cover to the the burrows entrances? If so and it's fairly small it could be worthwhile to jack it up and lay 1/2" chicken wire underneath.

cheers, Pete.

[Mary Fisher]

Everyone seems to be steering clear of it now ... no drive in them at this time of night.

Mary going to get my gear off and lay up for the night.

[Bob Eager]

I hope so. I'm exhausted already.

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 20 Feb 2005, Bob Eager wrote

You're -- bored?

[Mike Faithfull]

Last year we had a 'bit of a rodent problem' and the blue pellet stuff from the garden centre didn't seem to have much effect. A work colleague's 'partner' is a farm worker and he gave me some "Slaymor Bait Bag"s with suitable cautions as to their correct deployment. I left two, unopened, in places that I could see were being used as regular routes and within a couple of days they were both half-consumed. A few days later, they were still half-consumed. Never saw any further evidence of ratty and his friends. The Slaymor bags are not available for retail purchase - to buy them you must be a Local Authority, a professional operator providing pest control services, or a person occupying agricultural, horticultural, industrial or commercial premises. They definitely seem to do the trick though ...

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mary Fisher" saying something like:

Nods.

[Mary Fisher]

It's all in his head.

Mary

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Feb 2005, Mary Fisher wrote

As long as you don't start going on about his big end, we'll be OK...

[The Natural Philosopher]

Probably took less explaining than when I shot a central heating

Thats sad. That you are saner and safer.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I didn't know you could silence a shotgun...is that for real?

[Mary Fisher]

Now you're just being cranky.

Mary

[Andy Dingley]

You can't "put a silencer onto one", but you can build one with a silenced barrel. Doesn't work that well for 12s, but .410s have long been done this way for either poaching or pest control.

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 21 Feb 2005, Mary Fisher wrote

And my timing is all off.