Dixiejack
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Who shoots rats at your local garbage dump or landfill and what do you use to shoot them?
Who shoots garbage dump rats?
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charlie sherrill
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We don't have the dumps like we used to. DEQ and EPA put an end to that. Back when we did when I was younger I popped many a rat into eternity with a .22 pump. The ultimate "pop up" target.
Wow, that question brings back memories. The dumps of my youth are long gone, probably for the better, but we used to plink them with an old Remington single shot .22. I know one guy who liked to use an old German MP-40, a/k/a Schmeiser, 9mm. That was some kinda rat killer!
sipowicz
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When I lived on City Island as a kid, my dad would take us at dusk to the dump between the island and Pelham Bay...he'd badge the guard, and we would park down the road and open the car doors for rests...then as it started to get dark, the rats would come out of the woods and cross the road to the dump to eat...we would have the headlights on and me and my brother would blast them with our .22s...once one got killed the rest came to feed....by the end of the night, there would be a pile of rats in the road...good times good times...
mgjohn
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Not been rat hunting in many a year. As stated above all the good rat hunting places have been cleaned up.
Have used 22 rifles and pistols, shotguns, a varied selection of class 3 weapons ( 9mm Sten gun, M16, American 180, Uzi ect)
Had a buddy several years ago that wanted to get some property out in the county and start his own trash dump, capture some rats and have weekly rat hunts. He never went forward with the idea.
Have used 22 rifles and pistols, shotguns, a varied selection of class 3 weapons ( 9mm Sten gun, M16, American 180, Uzi ect)
Had a buddy several years ago that wanted to get some property out in the county and start his own trash dump, capture some rats and have weekly rat hunts. He never went forward with the idea.
20 years back we used .22's and shotguns. The .22 was the most fun if you had a decent spot light. The shotgun worked every time good or bad light! Sadly I dont know of anyplace that has open landfills or one you can take a gun to.
It was a LOT of fun.
It was a LOT of fun.
Smith357
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Back when I was just a young whippersnapper some 40 years ago my friends and I hunted rats in the dump with BB guns and home made spears. I use a Crosman 760 pumper and a broomstick with a large sharpened gutter nail epoxied in the end. We used to kill hundreds at a time yet never put a dent in their population.
GRIZZLYBEAR
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It has been years since since I went rat hunting. They closed all the prime hunting areas (dumps/land fills) in our area years ago.
We hunted them with .22 semi-autos (rifles & pistols), .22 Hornets, shotguns, hunting rifles, etc. The hunting was the best a night when the dump was set on fire to burn the trash as the light from fire made spotting and hitting the little critters a lot easier.
Those were the good old days!!!!!!!!!!!!
We hunted them with .22 semi-autos (rifles & pistols), .22 Hornets, shotguns, hunting rifles, etc. The hunting was the best a night when the dump was set on fire to burn the trash as the light from fire made spotting and hitting the little critters a lot easier.
Those were the good old days!!!!!!!!!!!!
bubbiesdad
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I can also remember as a child watching the pigeon shoots at the courthouse on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Good thing you didn't have rat shoots at the public buildings.
Many politicians would have been in danger of getting hit!
tyusclan
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I've never shot them at the dump, but when I was a kid I used to shoot'em off the wood stack at home with my BB gun. 
alabamabarry
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I' from north Alabama...we did not have a dump we had black birds...my dad had an old savage auto..sawed barrel off(was full choke)..killed hundreds...
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absolutevil
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I got arrested, well not really arrested, when I was about 10 or 12 years old for shooting rats on the dump. Me and my buddy were walking to the dump with our 22's when a police car stopped us on the way. We had to ride to the police station where they called my Dad who came and picked us up. We din't get in any trouble, they gave us our guns back and my Pop just laughed. The other kid with me was the mayors son. Years later I got hired by the same police dept. and one day I remembered that day so I searched the old files. Darn if I din't find the file on that after all them years, it was so funny and it made me think of the days when I was a kid.
seagill
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They told me stuff like that would stay on my "permanent record" but I didn't believe it!
This is a thread for my memory lane, it has been 30 years since I used rats for target practice. It wasn't really a dump but a remote location the county used to discard brush and trimmed tree limbs. I used a Ruger Blackhawk in .357 and a M1 30 carbine. That was some great fun.
Steve
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50 years ago they would put road flares into something at the dump in Hobart, IN and a lot of men with .22s and .410s would shoot rats. My dad was one of the .410 guys with an old (then) single shot. I wish I had that shotgun.
I worked with a woman who claimed to be a Peta member. I asked her if her house was full of mice and rats.
She said NO!
I told her she wasn't doing her part... I really think she was considering it.
I worked with a woman who claimed to be a Peta member. I asked her if her house was full of mice and rats. She said NO!
I told her she wasn't doing her part... I really think she was considering it.
DGNY
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Dump Shooting
Brings back memories of the dump off Sandpit Rd on the Niagara escarpment. We shot the rats with ~150 gr surplus 30-06 ammo from Lake City 1943, then 13-15 years old.. Rifle was a Springfield '03-A4 [not a typo] that had a [memory?] Springfield gov't sporter style stock [M1922M1 "Issue"] and a 50s receiver sight [yes, D&T'd].
My ears still ring, as we initially used no hearing protection. Later used empty .38 Special cases stuck in ears.
Those days were long ago and vehicular access was in '31 Ford Tudor!
Regards,
Dyson
Brings back memories of the dump off Sandpit Rd on the Niagara escarpment. We shot the rats with ~150 gr surplus 30-06 ammo from Lake City 1943, then 13-15 years old.. Rifle was a Springfield '03-A4 [not a typo] that had a [memory?] Springfield gov't sporter style stock [M1922M1 "Issue"] and a 50s receiver sight [yes, D&T'd].
My ears still ring, as we initially used no hearing protection. Later used empty .38 Special cases stuck in ears.
Those days were long ago and vehicular access was in '31 Ford Tudor!
Regards,
Dyson
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feralmerril
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In the 1950s we had a village dump anyone could go to. Shot rats at it, and dad would throw bottels in the air for me. I got pretty good at it for awhile.
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