RAT SEASON...

[cwlongshot]

Hello shooters!

 Well the ice grip has lessened considerably and yesterday I was able to take down the snow boards of the chicken pen... RAT SEASON OFICIALLY IS OPEN!

This am I got a big one, sticking his nose into the pen from what I am sure he thought was the safe back side. A 22 cal 14.5g FFT thru the head was his reward from the Disco. He kinda balled up and rolled back into the hole.

The second was just now. I finished the back yard work and just fed and watered the birds. I saw one slinking along a fence line... Ran back in the garage and grabbed the Marauder. I want to try out these new wicked hollow points. I had sited them in earlier with five shots. Last two into same hole at 20 yards. My marauder is pretty stock, but with a heavy hammer spring set for power not really tuned well.

Anyhow, he was gone when I got to the snipers "nest". About five minutes I catch movement n the shadows of the run. he is up in the feed troth. well the mrod trigger is mighty light and as I settled the crosshairs up his body a lil too much pressure was applied... pzzzWHOP somewhere thru the body... I mean THRU as it also went thru the metal troth behind him! I recovered what was left of the pellet. Just its base in the dirt in the run. I had to toss the feed as the bugger bled all over the feed pellets ! It must have messed him up! He made it back to his hole to die and get eaten later tonight.

I'll be watching as much as I can...usually when one gets to the hole I don't see others until they eat his corpse...

CW

[dk1677]

Keep on 'em Brian!

[SmokeTest]

Nice!

It amazes me what kind of wound rats will run off with. A .25 to the side should be like a cannon blast, but I've seen at least three rats run off after taking a 40+ FPE Polymag. Can't wait to get my own WMH pellets in to try out, though it seems they can run off even after a WMH sometimes.

[cwlongshot]

Nice!

It amazes me what kind of wound rats will run off with. A .25 to the side should be like a cannon blast, but I've seen at least three rats run off after taking a 40+ FPE Polymag. Can't wait to get my own WMH pellets in to try out, though it seems they can run off even after a WMH sometimes.

TRUE TRUE!!  In this case, I obviously hit him pretty good as the blood I found. But where exactly, I cannot say. He did flop a bit before disappearing down the rat hole...

CW

[BenjiHunter]

Great shooting!!

[cwlongshot]

Just swung by the house to pick up a couple tools... no one home... RATS EVERYWHERE!!  (Outside thank GOD!)

Just tagged another big one this time with the SHERIDAN! woohoo!  Txted momma to see of she could round it up later for pics.  Back to work for me!

CW

[Sfttailrdr46]

  The good news is you have plenty of moving targets and lots of rifles to choose from good hunting