Random yet related photos.

[pullnshoot25]

Well, I got a new job not too long ago as a tutor/baby sitter to two teenage boys and since last Tuesday was Veteran's Day, I figured that it would be appropriate to take them to the range and teach them how to shoot (parents were OK with it... hehe).

Here is what our target board looked like after we were done.




Some of the stickers are a few stickers deep so not all the holes are showing, but after getting them used to the guns we toned it down and shot for smallest groups and such. It was really really fun!

Then tonight, I went out rat hunting again. Poor little bastards, I have just been on their tails like nobody's business. School and a girlfriend might solve it, but the urge to scourge the place of vermin is an overpowering one. As it is, I am on number 33 for second week (second week just started) and I feel that my dent in the population is still fairly minuscule.

Here are the pics from tonight.

I throw them on the road for the other vermin and carrion eaters to get.



Baby rat. Got him in the calf pen from about 3 yds.


Grandma rat. Got her from about 7yds outside the calf pen.

[Vinz]

Another neat exercise you can teach them is lead extraction and wound dress up. That way the Vulturs, Hawks and Falcons don't die of lead poisoning.

[kurac]

aren't those the endangered kangaroo rat native only to So. Cal?

[professionalcoyotehunter]

These are not kangaroo rats they don't have fur on the end of their tails so it is okay to shoot them they are not endangered. It is only a common house rat.

[pullnshoot25]

These are not kangaroo rats they don't have fur on the end of their tails so it is okay to shoot them they are not endangered. It is only a common house rat.

LOL he was being sarcastic.

It is bad to shoot kangaroo rats now? LAME! They spread Hanta Virus!

Anyone have a good way to concentrate the rats into one area?

[drewg13]

Great job with the kids and the rats. What rig are you using on the rats? Lets see some pics.

[Darklyte27]

how did you kill them?.. hopefully not with lead bullets..

[pullnshoot25]

I am using a 3C Maglite (total POS, walmart sells an even cheaper and better LED flashligh without the huge gaping HOLE in the center of the light) and my Sheridan C9 .20cal. I have killed so many animals with this gun I can't even count the number any more (it is at least 150 though)

Anyways, here is a picture of all the Sheridans in the house right now. All are from around the late '70s and early '80s. Top one is mine (the only Silverstreak, HAHA!), the next one is my friend Omar's, the next is my friend Andy's and the next one is my father's gun. I keep my friend's guns with me since they don't shoot without me anyways and it fills the rack... kind of like empty orbitals in chemistry

My gun has a Williams aperture and I just use the "ghost ring" setup when I am hunting at night and the peep inserted for accuracy during the day. The bottom Sheridan needs a scope/red dot since it lacks a front sight and does not have the holes drilled for the aperture.

[pullnshoot25]

how did you kill them?.. hopefully not with lead bullets..

Nope, just lead pellets. 4 pumps out of a possible 8 gives me the range I need without the probability of an inconvenient ricochet.

[Darklyte27]

Isnt that actually bad? Those endangered birds eating lead carrion will die an from lead poisoning?

hopefully someone can jump in and provide more info

[sorensen440]

There is nothing better then teaching new shooters to shoot to help our cause .

[pullnshoot25]

Isnt that actually bad? Those endangered birds eating lead carrion will die an from lead poisoning?

hopefully someone can jump in and provide more info

Not in the zone for the birds AFAIK so I don't care. Besides, the ban, if I am correct, was only in reference to bullets, not pellets.

[kurac]

try some peanut butter, put it on a stick or something so they have to reach for it

[pullnshoot25]

There is nothing better then teaching new shooters to shoot to help our cause .

Tell me about it! They are asking me when the next time we get to go is!

[devildog999]

Screw the mice, I wanna go hunt some coyotes