Me thinks that you probably need to get a Barrett 50 with a BORS system

Several years ago would go to one of my brothers house during deer hunting season. They lived in a old off the ground wooden farm house that was well over 125yrs old. Found some remains of rats in the attic that were the size of a small grown house cat. Also had field mice. We would set up at night in the living room watching tv with only the light from the tv screen While having a old lever action BB rifle and pick them off as the scurried along the wall edges. Also had the spring type traps in the base kitchen cabinets / wash room / pantry and would listen for the snapping sound of the traps as we watched the tv. SIL was most grateful for our efforts. They have since built a brick house on a slab and between the rat bait/traps and a cat or two that are decent mousers they have a handle on the problem for now. .................. drill sgt

Rats! I hate Rats!

I put peanut butter in the cup of the TomCat trap.

The trigger is so large, any pressure across it will activate it.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:
And not one mention of a double barreled 12 gauge with one end of a string tied to the triggers, and the other end attached to a sticky trap.

Here's the go-to guy for a setup like that....

Nothing this morning. I am finding that the rat is active during the day, even though the garage is dark most of the time. I'm not finding any evidence of disturbances in the mornings at all. When I find evidence of it eating, it's in the afternoon. Hoping to get him today. If I get him alive in a glue trap, I have my trusty air rifle read to dispatch him out in the yard.

My late brother and sister in law kept sacked bird feed in the attached garage and had a large mouse problem in both the garage and house. Feed sacks need to be in a garbage can with a lid. I thought a plastic can would do but some folks apparently have had mice eat through a plastic can so maybe a metal can is better. It may still be smart to set out a couple of traps. The little buggers breed like crazy!

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Originally posted by Micropterus:
Nothing this morning. I am finding that the rat is active during the day, even though the garage is dark most of the time. I'm not finding any evidence of disturbances in the mornings at all. When I find evidence of it eating, it's in the afternoon. Hoping to get him today. If I get him alive in a glue trap, I have my trusty air rifle read to dispatch him out in the yard.

Video footage of the capture and dispatch of the invader please. Maybe have the camera behind you so we can see you with the rat in the foreground.
Some slo-mo when the actual shot is taken and impact made would be a nice touch.

Might take more than one shot as they are tough. One of my stories is when coming down from atop of the grain silos in a man elevator. The elevator rides on the outside of the silos. It was dark out and when I reached the bottom I opened the elevator door and stepped out there was a pack of eight or so large rats maybe 30 feet to my right. I looked down and there was a two foot piece of angle iron laying there. Probably weighed a couple pounds. I flung it towards the rat pack and it landed in the middle of them. I hit one pretty solid and I seen him flip around squeaking in pain but he recovered. The rest barely scattered but a few feet. They all stopped and looked in my direction noses sniffing the air as if trying to determine who and where the threat came from and if there was any action they could take against it.

I stepped back in the elevator and watched them slowly amble over to the truck scale building and gorge themselves on the corn debris laying there. Damned things they are.

We store our bird seed in a metal trash can-looking thing made for animal feed. Bought it at Tractor Supply. We're also very careful about not spilling any seed in the garage and cleaning up any we do immediately.

My wife tried a plastic bin one time. Mice ate holes in it to get to the seed.

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I use the big plastic TomCat rat traps.
They work flawless.

Which ones?
The snap traps? Or the bait station kind?

I had rats in my old house. Darn things were crapping all over my workbench and shelves and chewed wiring on my car. They also were living in my attic and getting into my attic via the garage. I don’t know why I ignored the problem for so long. One day I pulled out everything in my garage and was able to see obvious ingress and egress locations. I sealed them up except for 1 spot. Below that one spot, I put 3 tomcat traps so there was literally no way for them to exit my attic without stepping into the trap. The night I set them, I was watching TV and all of a sudden I heard a sound that to me sounded like gunfire. I was like WTF was that! Then I heard some high pitched squealing. Then I knew! Ran out to the garage and found a huge roof rat. Reset and repeat. The slaying lasted several hours and I ended up catching 8 of them jokers. No more rat problems after that!

I haven't found any crap yet.

When I was in college I worked for a summer as a groundsman at a condo complex. A lady complained of a rat that came in her back door and was eating out of the dog food bowl. I found evidence of nesting material down in a hole around a water meter. I laced that with poison bait. Checked it the next day. Lifted the cover off and a sick rat charged me. I had to stomp it to death.

Biggest rats I’ve ever seen were in ports/harbors.
First time I went to Hong Kong in the Navy we moored at one of the piers that was then used to also move international shipments of grain to and from warehouses.
I came up through the midships hatch once and the topside watch was standing there frozen with his eyes bugging out. I asked him what was wrong and he just pointed… there was a cargo ship moored nearby and you could see several massive wharf/ship rats on the lines attempting to get past the metal rat guards.
Those rats weren’t afraid of humans, either-

Sounds like Rat Jihad is about to go down

I use the smaller Havahart trap for mice in my shed.





https://www.havahart.com/small-2-door-animal-trap

Me and that rat are going to throw down like the in the fight scene in the movie OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN.

Timely thread, wife just spotted one of those smooth-tailed squirrels policing the spilled birdseed under the feeder. Havaharts are deployed after a quick polish of the trigger sear. In the past, I would just submerge the successful trap in a convenient washtub, but the wife gave that away last year, have to figure out a new stage two unless someone has a quick and easy way to shorten the lifespan of the critter. I would love to break out the Sig 226-alike CO2 pellet pistols rather than the Havaharts, but in this location discharging an air gun is illegal, and the neighbors would sooner turn me in than say "howdy."

Living in the So. Az. desert area, packrats are a never ending problem. I keep outside traps set the year around. Some in my garage from time to time, also. They are very destructive, plus just plain nasty!!

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
I put peanut butter in the cup of the TomCat trap.

The trigger is so large, any pressure across it will activate it.

thought you may recommend a Ruger 22 , colibri ammo, and a night vision scope,



thread drift, are you still shooting mice in that chicken coop?