Using Pellet Guns to kill Rats. Good idea or awesome idea?

[Dream]

Does anyone here have experience with air rifles? I have small problem with rats right now. The snap traps I've bought rarely work.

I'm planning to buy an air rifle with pellet ammo and killing those bastards with headshots like something out of Modern Warfare. Looking at a 800 fps rifle ($50) right now with .22 cartridges. The only thing I'm worried about is missing and damaging something indoors. Would it really put bullet holes in my house?

Is this a good idea or awesome idea?

 

[RoJoHen]

I am so glad I have never had to deal with rodents or vermin of any kind.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I dunno, but I wish I'd had a pellet gun when I found a mouse trapped in my sink the other day. Would've been quicker than drowning it.

 

[RoJoHen]

I dunno, but I wish I'd had a pellet gun when I found a mouse trapped in my sink the other day. Would've been quicker than drowning it.

I would have released it outside.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I dunno, but I wish I'd had a pellet gun when I found a mouse trapped in my sink the other day. Would've been quicker than drowning it.

I would have released it outside.

So it could just come back in and shit everywhere? Or end up being someone else's problem? They're vermin. If I find a mouse in my residence, it must die.

 

[RoJoHen]

Mice are too little and cute to bother me.

 

[Dream]

Okay here are my choices for airgun. Advice needed.

Daisy Model 880 or Crosman 760 Pumpmaster

Which is the better weapon for rat killing?

 

[scotpens]

Before you start shooting the little fuckers, it’d be a good idea to clear the room of breakable objects, pets and children.

 

[Dream]

Before you start shooting the little fuckers, it’d be a good idea to clear the room of breakable objects, pets and children.

No kids. No pets. I'll do something about the breakable objects.

Planning to pratice shooting in my backyard a few times before doing the real thing with the rats.

I was inspired to go the pellet gun route because of this article:

(Warning: There is pic of dead rat)
http://www.aaanimalcontrol.com/blog/ratinhouse.htm

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't have mouse/rat problems because my cats are good little hunters who won't suffer a mouse/rat to live.

 

[clint g]

I don't have mouse/rat problems because my cats are good little hunters who won't suffer a mouse/rat to live.

This is the best solution. A good cat will clean up the problem in a couple of weeks

 

[Kelso]

Buy better rat traps and/or bait them better. I'm an exterminator, rats are not hard at all to get rid of with traps.

Even if you succeed in shooting them with the air rifle, they may not die immediately. Having dead rats in your walls gets very stinky... and the smell can last for 6 weeks or more.

 

[RobertVA]

Some urban and suburban jurisdictions have ordinances that prohibit discharging firearms other than in a firing range or in defense off immediate deadly threats. Probably applies to things like bows, slingshots and pellet/bb guns indoors and outdoors.

 

[Dream]

Buy better rat traps and/or bait them better. I'm an exterminator, rats are not hard at all to get rid of with traps.

Any suggestions on how to use traps better? I use the Victor traps and peanut butter as bait. I'm willing to try them for a little while longer befoe going Rambo on the rats.

Some urban and suburban jurisdictions have ordinances that prohibit discharging firearms other than in a firing range or in defense off immediate deadly threats. Probably applies to things like bows, slingshots and pellet/bb guns indoors and outdoors.

I looked it up the my state's laws and pellet guns aren't considered firearms in my state. They can legally be sold by stores and bought by anyone over 18.

I'll try to find out more online.

 

[SeerSGB]

Okay here are my choices for airgun. Advice needed.

Daisy Model 880 or Crosman 760 Pumpmaster

Which is the better weapon for rat killing?

Go with the 880, I've used a older model Daisy similar to it years ago to take out rats when one of the neighbors abandoned barn lead to a rat problem for us (poison, traps, cats, you name it couldn't stop the fuckers) and it was a solid air rifle till I over pumped it. But I suggest you practice a lot before you use it; and be prepared for the rat to crawl to unwanted places to die unless you get a clean kill.

Personally, I'd go with a C02 pistol and pellets.

 

[Kelso]

Buy better rat traps and/or bait them better. I'm an exterminator, rats are not hard at all to get rid of with traps.

Any suggestions on how to use traps better? I use the Victor traps and peanut butter as bait. I'm willing to try them for a little while longer befoe going Rambo on the rats.

Peanut butter is good. The traps I like are called Trapper T-Rex Rat Traps. They're awesome, but I don't know how much they cost. If the rats are tripping the traps but getting away, you definitely need better traps.

The traps are best placed where the rats are running along walls or other surfaces- you'll see their dropping where they run. And don't move or disturb the traps if you can help it, rats are timid around new objects. You have to give them a few days to get used to the trap being there.

Or, if you can find where they are getting into the house, you can plug the hole and just bait them with a rodenticide on the exterior. Just don't bait them if you think they might still get inside or you'll run into the dead-rat-in-the-wall problem again.

Whatever you do, good luck! I hope it works.

 

[Dream]

Peanut butter is good. The traps I like are called Trapper T-Rex Rat Traps. They're awesome, but I don't know how much they cost. If the rats are tripping the traps but getting away, you definitely need better traps.

The rats are eating the peanut butter but the traps haven't gone off/snapped in a while.

Where is the best position to put the peanut butter on the yellow square plastic cheese thing? I've always put it in the middle. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

Go with the 880, I've used a older model Daisy similar to it years ago to take out rats when one of the neighbors abandoned barn lead to a rat problem for us (poison, traps, cats, you name it couldn't stop the fuckers) and it was a solid air rifle till I over pumped it. But I suggest you practice a lot before you use it; and be prepared for the rat to crawl to unwanted places to die unless you get a clean kill..

What kind of pellets did you use?

Does it matter? I've been reading online and people have talked about flat pellets, hollow pellets, and pointed pellets.

 

[ares93]

I'd say go with the pointed pellets. And make damn sure its a high powered air/pellet rifle. Those chinese 50$ ones on ebay wont work.

Although i've never had a rat problem. We did have a wild dog at my relatives' house.
Vicious bastard. After it bit a three year old, about two dozen of us went out in two man teams and killed it. One of the most irresponsible things I've done in my life. It looked like a scene from bloody Rambo. Some of those people wouldnt be able to hit the damn dog if the barrel was shoved up its arse.

Me and my partner eventually killed it. For any animal right nuts out there let me point out that it was practically painless. It was dead withing ten seconds of the first shot.

I never found out if it was rabid or not. It didnt look like it. But it was definitely sick. Had its fur falling out an everything. Probably did it a favor.
FYI, My partner was a copper. So it was a sanctioned shooting.

 

[SmoothieX]

I've hate vermin problems the past couple years. Craisins work really well as bait in the hardware store traps. Whatever the exterminator uses is obviously better.

You should try what my wife does: give it cancer, pump it full of drugs to make the tumors glow, snap its neck, then take out most of its organs. They end up dead every time that way. But, that's just her day job.

We had a little fun playing who can catch the most mice a couple years back when we had a bad infestation at the house. She won hands down when she ran one through with the poker when it crawled out of the fireplace. Made my previous work with a 2x4 that morning look downright sloppy in comparison.

 

[spooky spice]

killing those bastards with headshots like something out of Modern Warfare.

Is this a good idea or awesome idea?

This is a ridiculous idea. It will not be "headshots", or anything like Modern Warfare.

Put the game down and call an expert to deal with the problem, or get yourself a cat.