I used my Dad's old model 68 Winchester 22rf single shot with peep sight. It was not a dump but a fenced in chicken lot that usually had corn left from feeding the chickens. I would set nearby and wait for dusk and they would come out to eat and then it was curtains for them. I still have that old rifle but no chickens or rats.
Who shoots garbage dump rats?
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Kelly Green
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When we were young'uns, my brother and I decided it would be fun to shoot rats in the hay barn. One evening after our parents had gone into town we got a flashlight, dad's .22 cal. revolver and a box of hollow points. There was rat-shot in the cabinet but my brother thought it would be a lot more fun to try and knock them off the rafters with solid lead.
Next day, dad called us into the barn. When we looked up there were tiny beams of light coming through tiny holes in the metal roof. We got a trip to the woodshed over that stunt. And I can tell you, patching a barn roof is no fun either.
Next day, dad called us into the barn. When we looked up there were tiny beams of light coming through tiny holes in the metal roof. We got a trip to the woodshed over that stunt. And I can tell you, patching a barn roof is no fun either.
Sebago Son
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I'll send you mine...
When I was a kid growing up in the Adirondacks Rat Shooting at the dump was a great social event. I can remember mounds of old green and red Remington .22 short boxes. We used to backlight them with burning rubbish...
We'd usually have to quit however when the Black Bears showed up to pick things over.
When I was a kid growing up in the Adirondacks Rat Shooting at the dump was a great social event. I can remember mounds of old green and red Remington .22 short boxes. We used to backlight them with burning rubbish...
We'd usually have to quit however when the Black Bears showed up to pick things over.
ohiobuckeye
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Those were good times...for us, not the rats...
I suppose the world is better off without the rat infested dumps that gave us so much shooting enjoyment, but it was a great way to spend an afternoon shooting up boxes of 22lr. Almost as much fun as an African safari.
I suppose the world is better off without the rat infested dumps that gave us so much shooting enjoyment, but it was a great way to spend an afternoon shooting up boxes of 22lr. Almost as much fun as an African safari.
absolutevil
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I remember making bunkers out of cardboard boxes or sitting in an old refrigerator to ambush the rodents. My memories are better then any African safari I could ever go on. It was a City Dump Safari !!!!
kalei
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Many moon's ago it was wrist rocket sling shots with marbles, at nite we used head lamps, taped our pants legs. My buddy had one run up inside his pans and we hauled him to the Dr.
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i have shot a few rats in my day but...in this area we would load up in a john boat and put in the appomattox river...it's infested with cotton mouths...we troll along the shore very slowly and shoot them out of low hanging bushes and tree limbs...two of us could shoot about 50 of them in a few hours....
Peter M. Eick
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30 odd years ago I used to with my 30/30 winchester. Lots of fun but sometimes those 30/30's would just punch right through. Pretty amazing to stand there and shoot 3, 4 or even 5 shots into a rat and just have it stand there taking it.
Gutpile Charlie
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It's probably been about forty five years since I've shot rats at a city dump. That really brings back memories.
The most memorable shoots would be on cold, crisp fall nights, after dark. Usually there were little fires burning all over the dump and that created that never to be forgotten odor....of a burning garbage!
If you would remain quite, you would hear the "tinkle" of broken glass and tin cans as the rats ran through the dump. Then just put a flash light on the "tinkle" and you would have one of them little buggers in the beam. Next, send him off to rat eternity and revel in that smell of rim fire ammunition.
(Do you guys remember what .22 ammo used to smell like? It not the same today. As a kid I used to pull the bullets and powder out of a rim fire and then ignite the primer. The best way for me to describe the odor was that of "grapefruit"!....Ah, just a little side note and digression........)
I think that days of rat shooting at the public dump are over for ever. I don't even know of one you could get into today...at night. My last experiences were at dumps in small, rural communities.
The most memorable shoots would be on cold, crisp fall nights, after dark. Usually there were little fires burning all over the dump and that created that never to be forgotten odor....of a burning garbage!
If you would remain quite, you would hear the "tinkle" of broken glass and tin cans as the rats ran through the dump. Then just put a flash light on the "tinkle" and you would have one of them little buggers in the beam. Next, send him off to rat eternity and revel in that smell of rim fire ammunition.
(Do you guys remember what .22 ammo used to smell like? It not the same today. As a kid I used to pull the bullets and powder out of a rim fire and then ignite the primer. The best way for me to describe the odor was that of "grapefruit"!....Ah, just a little side note and digression........)
I think that days of rat shooting at the public dump are over for ever. I don't even know of one you could get into today...at night. My last experiences were at dumps in small, rural communities.
Chubbs103
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We didn't go to the dump (we didn't have to). I used to watch for the rats to come to the hog feeder and shoot them with a pellet rifle. My dad told me he used to spotlight them around the corn crib and shoot them with rat shot from a .22 pump.
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