Ex-Rat

[collierboy]

Bird table raider meets a very fast JSB.

 

[Manthing]

Nice one.
Noticed one under my bird feeder this morning.
Might have to put the red light on the area tonight and see if I can splat the little bustards (there's never only 1.

 

[Half cocked]

Bird table raider meets a very fast JSB.

My favourite view of a scale tail, Prone.

 

[collierboy]

My favourite view of a scale tail, Prone.

Mine too, even though there was a bit missing on this one.

 

[Half cocked]

Mine too, even though there was a bit missing on this one.

What was that, the lower jaw?

 

[collierboy]

no, it only had half a tail.

 

[Half cocked]

no, it only had half a tail.

I never noticed with it being on flagstone Richard.

 

[Ystranc]

Nice shot!

 

[collierboy]

Yes it's a bit hard to make out in the pic.

 

[Half cocked]

Yes it's a bit hard to make out in the pic.

I don't know if you have seen the ban on shooting Magpies in Wales.
Going to spoil your fun mate.

 

[Ystranc]

We don’t get many here anyway, the crows tend to drive them off. Truth be known I don’t mind them that much.

 

[Big Red]

Got a Roderick myself on Tuesday, same thing, under the bird table………Missus thought the .243 was a little over the top though!

 

[Half cocked]

Got a Roderick myself on Tuesday, same thing, under the bird table………Missus thought the .243 was a little over the top though!

There can't have been much left of it.

 

[Ystranc]

Got a Roderick myself on Tuesday, same thing, under the bird table………Missus thought the .243 was a little over the top though!

Nice, a bit of a pricey round to pop a rat but nice all the same…Inside out?…. Rat jam?

 

[Half cocked]

Nice, a bit of a pricey round to pop a rat but nice all the same…Inside out?…. Rat jam?

Rat-a-two-eeee

 

[collierboy]

I don't know if you have seen the ban on shooting Magpies in Wales.
Going to spoil your fun mate.

Lucky for me that the people from round here hate maggies almost as much as they detest Packham. And the newbies wouldn't
know the difference between a magpie and a pork pie.

 

[Ystranc]

For a start, the ban hasn’t begun yet. I get the impression it’s a bit silly, driven by misinformation, we have a boisterous and active population of jays, they plant oak trees for me so I forgive them anything…they’re definitely not in decline around here.
Today after seeing this in this thread I made sure I counted the magpies that I have in the area and there were only two pairs. On that basis I really don’t feel the need to control their numbers.

 

[William Tell]

I've never shot a rat not in Norfolk anyway.
I would if I could but I've never seen a rat apart from the cat kill.
In Bedfordshire the milking cow shed the manger that was crawling. No3 garden gun made in Germany single shot smooth bore hammer pistol with a real long barrel.
You could fire a 9mm round as well. I'm talking about in the 60's so no smells of burning powder or clanging sirens.
Cartridges were white cardboard and free.
I have shot a few Covid and one Jay I wouldn't now.
Prince Charles did say everybody should go shoot a Magpie
didn't he. I had a sad accident with a very young Doe that had been left hiding in a rough fallen tree back stop area, where I had been shooting. Looking through my lens I noticed a face maybe a Rabbit I walked down and it was a new born.
Would be abandoned now I've interfered with it.
The RSPCA centre only two minutes away by car when I phoned them said let it die. Don't bring it here we won't touch it not allowed to. I was more than slightly surprised and disappiinted.
The acorn spreading thing with Jays is great. Actually round here are a lot of rough growing oak and whatever make trees. I started over thirty years ago collecting acorns and helicopters replanting in the hedge rows. I can't tell you how good it makes me feel to see so many oaks lining the road side.
Potted at first like a nursery then grown larger in bigger pots.
Some folk I give them to for their children. Have a child plant a tree.

 

[Ystranc]

You can still get them, often described as garden guns.

 

[Half cocked]

I've never shot a rat not in Norfolk anyway.
I would if I could but I've never seen a rat apart from the cat kill.
In Bedfordshire the milking cow shed the manger that was crawling. No3 garden gun made in Germany single shot smooth bore hammer pistol with a real long barrel.
You could fire a 9mm round as well. I'm talking about in the 60's so no smells of burning powder or clanging sirens.
Cartridges were white cardboard and free.
I have shot a few Covid and one Jay I wouldn't now.
Prince Charles did say everybody should go shoot a Magpie
didn't he. I had a sad accident with a very young Doe that had been left hiding in a rough fallen tree back stop area, where I had been shooting. Looking through my lens I noticed a face maybe a Rabbit I walked down and it was a new born.
Would be abandoned now I've interfered with it.
The RSPCA centre only two minutes away by car when I phoned them said let it die. Don't bring it here we won't touch it not allowed to. I was more than slightly surprised and disappiinted.
The acorn spreading thing with Jays is great. Actually round here are a lot of rough growing oak and whatever make trees. I started over thirty years ago collecting acorns and helicopters replanting in the hedge rows. I can't tell you how good it makes me feel to see so many oaks lining the road side.
Potted at first like a nursery then grown larger in bigger pots.
Some folk I give them to for their children. Have a child plant a tree.

You need to help the NHS William, your the only person known to be able to shoot Covid.