Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house? (Read 288754 times)

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #380 on: August 02, 2015, 08:05:24 PM »
Saturday night got 1 by my place and 7 by the trash.

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about to go out again

Edit: +1 from my porch. Shot em and he fell in the water and started swimming.  A follow up shot put him on the bottom.  Tide is out so stream is low.

edit2: +1 from porch  205 total

8/6 two last night.  207

someone has put out a 50 gallon fish tank on the ground right where the rats congregate at the trash.  Don't want to chance hitting it so haven't hunted over there the last few nights.
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robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #381 on: August 06, 2015, 11:44:12 PM »
+3 tonight. 210.

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #382 on: August 08, 2015, 01:44:27 AM »
somebody got a mini dvr to record stuff..  (also redid my crosshairs)


pulled the trigger and realized I didn't have a pellet loaded.. so had to bolt one in.  That's why the crosshair left it for a few moments.
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oldfart

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #383 on: August 08, 2015, 08:15:53 AM »
+3 tonight. 210.
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Gee ....some guys have all the fun
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robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #384 on: August 08, 2015, 10:05:25 PM »
holy crap.. This would be perfect over by the bus stop.  well, except for the noise.

Edit: you have to watch the video to understand why it's so badass.


« Last Edit: August 09, 2015, 03:18:19 PM by robble1 »

Tom_G

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #385 on: August 08, 2015, 10:12:02 PM »
holy crap.. This would be perfect over by the bus stop.  well, except for the noise.

Meh.  I am far more impressed seeing you head-shot the little fuckers than I would be watching you spray-and-pray them to death.
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Barrett808

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #386 on: August 09, 2015, 09:38:05 AM »
Hey Robble,
Got one of those full autos, used to blast rats stealing bait  fishing eastside. Tom's right about power, but seeing BBs  spark on blue rock at night and ricochet in the vermin holes is so much fun. Great for making palu with crabs. Lol
Good for blowing feathers off feral chicken's butts roosting  over your truck at night too. Gotta teach vermin to behave. Lol
BB gun is OK for myna sized birds. Would only teach your rats to be gun shy. Mongoose forget it. Still thinking about getting a decent pellet gun. Just rather drill bigger critters but you are bad influence. Lol
Keep it up.  Happy hunting
:shaka:

Oh yah it's pretty quite don't want to bother fellow fishermen.

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #387 on: August 09, 2015, 03:17:00 PM »
I'd be willing to sell my marauder .25.   It's overkill for my purposes.  should kill anything you'd want to hunt with an air gun. I have it tuned down right now but you can tune it up to pig killing strength.

also is the full auto you mention the same one in the video? have you modded it?  The one in the video is modded to 1200 shots per minutes at 900+ fps on those bb's.  that guy can really tear something up.

Hey Robble,
Got one of those full autos, used to blast rats stealing bait  fishing eastside. Tom's right about power, but seeing BBs  spark on blue rock at night and ricochet in the vermin holes is so much fun. Great for making palu with crabs. Lol
Good for blowing feathers off feral chicken's butts roosting  over your truck at night too. Gotta teach vermin to behave. Lol
BB gun is OK for myna sized birds. Would only teach your rats to be gun shy. Mongoose forget it. Still thinking about getting a decent pellet gun. Just rather drill bigger critters but you are bad influence. Lol
Keep it up.  Happy hunting
:shaka:

Oh yah it's pretty quite don't want to bother fellow fishermen.

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #388 on: August 12, 2015, 02:15:24 AM »
Between last night and tonight I got 4 rats by my house and 4 rats over by the trash cans.  +8

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Drakiir84

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #389 on: August 12, 2015, 07:12:04 AM »
Between last night and tonight I got 4 rats by my house and 4 rats over by the trash cans.  +8

Total count 219

Holy shit.... fucking Rat Jihad in full effect lol.
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Tom_G

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #390 on: August 12, 2015, 12:07:06 PM »
It occurs to me that this could be a life-long activity. 
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Bcspy

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #391 on: August 17, 2015, 11:06:18 PM »
Took a big one out today. Was in a jaw snap trap. Took 5 shot with a high power sniper airsoft rifle. Not good to shoot him so many time until he expired. Need to fine a better trap or super high power one shot rifle.

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #392 on: August 17, 2015, 11:51:44 PM »
Took a big one out today. Was in a jaw snap trap. Took 5 shot with a high power sniper airsoft rifle. Not good to shoot him so many time until he expired. Need to fine a better trap or super high power one shot rifle.

Airsoft isn't meant to be lethal.  A cheap springer pellet gun could do it one shot.



Got to hunt a little tonight.  In 5 minutes shot 3 behind my patio.

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« Last Edit: August 19, 2015, 12:53:41 AM by robble1 »

Jl808

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #393 on: August 18, 2015, 07:13:32 AM »
I think here is a market for rat infested real estate now thanks to this thread!!! 
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robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #394 on: August 18, 2015, 08:39:10 AM »
I think here is a market for rat infested real estate now thanks to this thread!!!

Honolulu has always been a hot market ;)

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #395 on: August 19, 2015, 12:53:23 AM »
+ 3 off the patio.   225

about half the time I remember to turn on the recorder.  Can't do anything with the video while wife is home though.

Thursday 12:15am +2.   

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Thursday night 11:15pm.  +1

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Bcspy

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #396 on: August 21, 2015, 12:51:08 PM »
Got my 2nd.

Bushido

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #397 on: August 21, 2015, 06:41:15 PM »
Been following this thread for awhile now and must say, this sounds like too much fun. :shaka:

robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #398 on: August 22, 2015, 08:40:37 PM »
Been following this thread for awhile now and must say, this sounds like too much fun. :shaka:

I'm certainly having more fun than my wife thinks I should.  Actually, she hates me doing it.

+2 to tonight.


I've always had a problem with the tins of pellets being banged around in shipping and messing up a large percentage of the pellets in a tin (besides the pellets not all being perfectly the same from the factory).   A skirt that is even bent a tiny bit can throw off accuracy by an inch or more at 10 yards.

So I started hunting for *true* "match grade" pellets.    It took a long time to find them but www.anschutznorthamerica.com carries RWS ammo - both pellets and .22 cal bullets.
They were more expensive than the ones I ordered from amazon but at least shipping was cheap.  When I got the box that had the tin of pellets I found an extremely good packing job.  I haven't found a single bent skirt yet (amazon tins sometimes as bad as 50%). Considering this the pellets are actually cheaper there than at amazon on a per pellet price.amazon.   The pellets themselves were obviously high quality too. No die marks or shards of lead hanging off. Regular pellets are not nearly as smooth nor are the weights exactly the same pellet to pellet (these seem to be).

It has done wonders for accuracy.  Where before when target shooting I'd usually have at least one "flyer" per 8 count magazine, these nail the same hole over and over.  I haven't missed a rat yet since using these pellets.

I suspect their .22 cal bullets are just as high in quality if any of you are looking for primo small caliber ammo.
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robble1

Re: Can I kill rats with an air pellet gun in the stream by my house?
« Reply #399 on: August 31, 2015, 11:56:43 PM »
Haven't got to do much hunting lately but +1 tonight.

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