Hmmmm, try turn your phone sideways next time.


"Just say no to vertical video"

Rats at my house are mocking me
The black speck on top of the
pail of rat bait is rat doodoo

I guess the bait works, huh?   

+1 last night.

75 snap
58 bang
133 rat heaven

I saw you mentioning a night vision rig I just got this ad in my email today from http://www.sportsmansguide.com

I saw you mentioning a night vision rig I just got this ad in my email today from http://www.sportsmansguide.com

While gen1 prices are within my budget I doubt the picture quality would be good enough for me to pick out rats in the brush and grass.  If I decide to have that guy build me one I'll have gen3 quality picture for hi end gen1 or low end gen2 cost.  It wouldn't be as pretty a setup as a purpose built scope but it'll work fine.

This is what I'd @really@ love to have: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00CQM4OPC/?tag=2ahawaii-20 Those rats wouldn't stand a chance.  I'd be like "The Predator"

Some guys have all the fun...

Some guys have all the fun...

There's a whole stream and canal with plenty rats to share!

edit 1/15  +3 since last kill count.

looks like I'll be getting the night vision set up too!  IT may be a while before he gets all the parts ordered and assembled though.

edit:  paid for the nightvision.  eta 3-6 weeks due to the camera bodies currently out of stock.

1/16 11:55pm +2 big fat ones. Trash night.

Traps75
Shot 63
Total carnage 138

Edit again:
1/18/15 12:46 am.  + 2 shot
75
65
140 total

1/18/15 2:40 am
+1 very large sow by the trash

75
66
141

1/20/15  +1
1/21/15 +1

I just realized I have more kills than posts.

1/22 +1

75/69/144

I thermal scope would be perfect.   Could easily spotvthem in bushes and grass.  Sadly, thermal is $3k plus (yes, I've looked). However there is another not cheap but still much less expensive route.   Night vision.  Now the good night vision scopes (gen 3) are also many thousands of dollars but there is a guy who builds night vision scoreless setups for rifles and the quality is actually better than gen 3 scopes.

Yes, I am in talk with him to build me one.  It'll cost about $800.

Gotta find a way to combine this:
http://www.flir.com/flirone/explore.cfm

With this:
http://t.basspro.com/iScope-Smartphone-Adapter-for-iPhones/product/13041106513218/?utm_referrer=direct%2Fnot%20provided

Gotta find a way to combine this:
http://www.flir.com/flirone/explore.cfm

With this:
http://t.basspro.com/iScope-Smartphone-Adapter-for-iPhones/product/13041106513218/?utm_referrer=direct%2Fnot%20provided

$350 plus the iPhone ...

http://b67.37b.myftpupload.com/2014/09/2101/

I've seen the flir for iphone but it doesn't fit the 6 or 6+ and gen two of it is supposed to be coming out in the near future.  I'm on the mailing list for it.


edit - 3 since last update.

t75/g72/ttl 147

whew!  Finally Anthony Story has mailed my Marauder pistol with the LDC.  Advice - if you want an LDC for an airgun and you don't have over a month to wait for it to be built then order it from someone else.  He makes good stuff but he never meets his target dates - repeatedly.  About 7 times over the last 5 weeks the estimate was "should be able to mail it tomorrow" yet every time 'something' came up to keep him from finishing.

3 day priority mail so should arrive on Tuesday maybe Wednesday.

Now I'll be waiting for my night vision setup.

+1 tonight by the trash heap for the low rise apartments at  kapiolani.   

Was set up with a tripod and my umarex in the parking lot of the low rise about 15 yards from the trash pile. Had shot a rat 2-3 minutes earlier and was watching for more through the scope.  Had a flash light on tight spot beam.  While looking through the scope a bicycle comes towards me from the sidewalk by the bus stop close to the trash pile. Since he crossed my line of sight I dipped the barrel towards the ground as he rode casually towards me.
"Hey, what you doing?", says the guy who looked like he could have been on year three of an ongoing lifelong batu binge.  Not the kind of guy I'd want for a next door neighbor.
"Killing rats, just got one a couple minutes ago."
"You live here?"
"Couple houses over there"
"You can't be here. Anyone say you could?"
"Nah, didn't figure anyone would mind me taking out rats"
"Well, I don't know if you killing rats or people"
I'm thinking, "really?"
"I don't think this little air gun is gonna kill anyone"
"Don't care. You gotta go before I call the cops"

Although I'm thinking he probably has more to hide from them than than I do I pick up the tripod and fusion and head home.  Kinda sucks.  Hundreds of rats over there and the guy wants to keep it that way. Else he just like giving the white boy trouble. 
I don't even know if he lived there but I don't care for no trouble.

you probably were shooting at his "friends"

Good thing your air rifle was not one of the AR or tacti-cool look alike models.

I am sure there are a lot of places on the mainland where kids can have fun with those, but if a neighbor saw one in the backyard shooting in Hawaii, or like you were doing................

Probably good it wasn't my marauder rifle either.  It's huge and could really scare someone. 

 Looking back now, The guys words were "ok" but he said them with some attitude. At least they weren't attitude with cursing and physical threats.   If he lives there he was in the right to tell me to leave.  He could've  been nicer about it though.
 I wonder if there are any laws against having trash piled up like that outside of rat proof cans.   It really does create Heath and vermin hazards.

Oh yea, new pistol arrived a short while ago.  Had it shipped to work since it required a signature.  Now I want to go home and play with it.

Doubt it would be a good idea to unpack it here at work.

Completely off topic but discovered something pretty dang cool (and a little unsettling) about my neighborhood.  It is riddled with caves not far below the surface.   Google "moiliili caves". I found it fascinating. There are videos of people checking them out.

I dunno man, caves spook me, and that looks too much like it hooks up to a sewer.

you've got to go through a sewer to get in the caves.  I bet the "KING" rat is down there somewhere.