Way cool!

It's been awhile since I made any updates - simply because I haven't been seeing hardly any rats.  I think the neighbors must have started poisoning them.  Even the infested house next door hardly has any.  I shot one the other night - the only one I've gotten a clear shot at since I bought the night vision.  I know they are mostly gone because it is so easy to see them (when they are there) now. The nightvision lakes their eyes light up like a reflector hit by headlights.

So I took some pictures.  I won't win any photography prizes since I was balancing the gun in one hand and holding the iphone with another.  The auto balance and focus on the camera didn't really help either.

The first few are of my rifle with night vision attached. Then a few of the screen using night vision.  The target and kale plant are 10 yards away, the sandbags are 65 yards away ( I also bought a laser range finder).  The picture on the screen looks MUCH better in person than it does in these pictures.  I also unloaded an 8 round magazine at the target for fun.  Other than one crazy flier (the pellet probably had a bent skirt) they would have all been lethal shots on a rat.

+1 kill from the other night.

traps 75
shot 78
total 153

Hmm this was in my mailbox yesterday. Perhaps they'll clean away all the brush too.

Wish I could say it's been a slaughter around here (did I really just say that?) since I got the night vision but I've hardly seen a rat much less shot at or killed one recently.  Even the house next door that seemed to have millions under it at one time is clean. I think it is coincidence the people there moved out about the same time the rats disappeared or perhaps the landlord did an inspection when the people left and discovered the warren under there.  Someone had to have used lots of poisoned bait to get rid of them this completely. 

I haven't had a chance to inspect the trash by the bus stop though. That is their source of major food.

other news - the workers came and strengthened *some* of the walls along the stream.  Where they worked they cleared the brush but not anywhere else.  The far side hardly got anything cleared since my side of the stream got most of the work. There are now 3" wide shelves of concrete about 6 " above the high tide mark for them to run along when they return. 


It seems like the unlikely has happened and this thread has run it's course.  I didn't think I'd ever be rid of the rats.  IF I kill anymore I will definitely post.  I still go out most nights checking for them. 

Oh yea,

Our newly planted vegetable garden is doing well.

!!!!GAME ON!!!!

 

I hadn't seen any rats for well over a week.  The city is continuing work on the walls along the bank of the stream and I think they are displacing rats. I heard rats squeaking outside a little while ago so I grabbed my .22 marauder pistol with the night vision and 2 magazines.
Within the next 20 minutes I shot ***7*** of them and saw 2-3 others. The nightvision is great. Without light the rats don't know what's happening so they don't auto run away when you shoot one. My pellet rifle is also very quiet now.  The pellet hitting the rat is much louder than the report.
  One of the rats scared the crap out of me by running high speed into the side of my foot. I think I screamed like a little girl.   I was looking across the stream and had no idea that rat was near me. By the time I gained my composure it had run away.


edit:
Went back out after ~30 minute break and got 3 more!  10 in one night blows away my old record with traps.

traps 75
shot 88
total 163

Woohoo!  Better killing through modern technology!!

Wierd. I must have really caught a migration because I've only seen 1 at my house since the 10. Got that 1 too

The city has completely cleared  the bank on both side for 1/2 the area I shoot at now.  Looks like they'll be clearing the whole thing eventually as they move along with wall repairs.   No where for them to hide except their tunnels now.

Traps 75
Shot 89
Total 164

Nothing new to report but I found a new weapon to take care of the rats.  4-5 of these should do the trick:
http://i.imgur.com/uQJPsbd.gif

Nothing new to report but I found a new weapon to take care of the rats.  4-5 of these should do the trick:
http://i.imgur.com/uQJPsbd.gif

 

Nothing new to report but I found a new weapon to take care of the rats.  4-5 of these should do the trick:
http://i.imgur.com/uQJPsbd.gif

Yikes!  Lol!

Robble ever think of culling mongoose? See um everyday on Westside. Real big problem, see them stalking game birds every day.
See francolins paired up or with chicks, next day or week little guys are gone.
Thanks for taking care of Ala Wai how about Westside? Lol

Im down fir a mongoose hunt. Hawaii prairie dogs!

Im down fir a mongoose hunt. Hawaii prairie dogs!

Little bastards come in my yard all the time, lots of rocks on the lower slope.  They never sit still.  I would have to have a very good sniper hide and patience to bag one.

Better have the sights on them as soon as they appear.

We have trapped them before when they ate my wife's tree fruit.

Mongoose haven't yet given me a reason to hate them.  If the rats had not been eating our veggy garden I wouldn't have raged on them either.

Slight OT, but is a pellet gun overkill for cane toads? We have a dog and found one tonight. I'd rather not use the machete...

!!!!GAME ON!!!!

 

I hadn't seen any rats for well over a week.  The city is continuing work on the walls along the bank of the stream and I think they are displacing rats. I heard rats squeaking outside a little while ago so I grabbed my .22 marauder pistol with the night vision and 2 magazines.
Within the next 20 minutes I shot ***7*** of them and saw 2-3 others. The nightvision is great. Without light the rats don't know what's happening so they don't auto run away when you shoot one. My pellet rifle is also very quiet now.  The pellet hitting the rat is much louder than the report.
  One of the rats scared the crap out of me by running high speed into the side of my foot. I think I screamed like a little girl.   I was looking across the stream and had no idea that rat was near me. By the time I gained my composure it had run away.


edit:
Went back out after ~30 minute break and got 3 more!  10 in one night blows away my old record with traps.

traps 75
shot 88
total 163

I to have hit that high pitch tone, walking down the stairs at 5am,stepping on 1 frog and 2 frogs jumping towards me.it was a scream and a jump back on to the stairs lol.

Slight OT, but is a pellet gun overkill for cane toads? We have a dog and found one tonight. I'd rather not use the machete...

Heck, a good BB gun will take car of toads but a .177 pellet would be more humane.  Co2 cartridge type would be plenty.  I have a very good one I'm looking to unload. Also looking to sell my .25 but that's be way overkill for toads.

Little bastards come in my yard all the time, lots of rocks on the lower slope.  They never sit still.  I would have to have a very good sniper hide and patience to bag one.

Better have the sights on them as soon as they appear.

We have trapped them before when they ate my wife's tree fruit.

...
When I was a kid back in the 60's, mongoose hunting was why I got interested in guns.
My grandfather would clean fish and throw the guts out for bait.
I learned a lot of tricks from him for a successful hunt.

+3 tonight.  Heard several fighting/playing/fornicating/whatever's.  Anyway they were making a lot of noise. Look around with my night vision and there seem to be three or four of them. I shot one and the rest scattered. Little while later I heard them again so I went back out and I got two more. I didn't see any more after that -at least up until now.

Just great - get the rats under control and my barely English speaking neighbors appear to have bought about a dozen young chickens which they let free roam. Free roam into my yard causing my dog to go crazy.  Not even mentioning all the noise they make. I grew up with chickens so I also know what to expect when the roosters get a little older

I'm sure there are laws against chickens in town but it'd be tough to prove somebody owns them.

Might get more use out of the pellet gun after all.