Rat Vs Pistol

[RemyBolt 420]

Okay, this might seem amazing, and it is....because I'm awesome HAHA.

 

I have taken to wearing a thigh holster for an air pistol when ratting. Mainly because when you open a door, to a chicken shed and there's rats about the rats scatter, and it's crazy fun just shooting about like a loony. I do my best impression of a gangster street style shooting...which may explain why I've never managed to hit anything smaller than the wall or floor.

 

But the other day I was out and heard a little scurry when I was outside. Sounded to me like a rat in the gutter, I pull out the pistol and get my torch ready. Light on, zoom up to the sound, and see a rat. It freezes for a second. I squeeze the trigger with by best effort and I see the pellet fly. In the split second I do my best to psychically will the pellet to it's target, demanding "Fly true...my pretty" (got to love the Wizard of Oz). Like slow motion this pellet edges ever closer to the rat in the gutter. Surely the pellet was going to miss, like many thousands that have come before it out of the end of that same barrel. But alas the Fates were smiling upon this stories author, the pellet flew right at the rats head. Was there going to be any dip in the pellet's trajectory? Had I adjusted for the dip already? Was I the dip by trying to take out a rat with a pistol? Was the rat going to duck down and the pellet fly clean over is head? NO!!! The pellet flew true and it'd bowled the rat over in a cool summersault flip like from the Olympics. Okay, that bit was a lie. It smacked it in the head and it dropper like a stone. SUCCESS!!!

 

Could this moment have been any sweeter? For the first time in literally a whole tin of pellets, I have managed to bag a rat with my pistol! I feel like a legend. A pistol beast.

 

So I turn around and the farmer whose land I shoot on was stood about 15 feet from me. Evidently he had come around the corner of the workshop to the hen-house and had seen my Hollywood pivot, coupled with bringing the light up under my wrist (yeah I learned that one from X-Files as a kid), turning the light on, and the whole rat smash shot! Now he's telling everyone at the farm and in the pub that I'm some crazy pistol sniper kind of guy. I don't have the heart to tell him it was entirely luck. Totally screwed if I can live up to it again.

 

Just thought you guys would appreciate me telling you this. For those of you whom like to pretend you're a Hollywood hero and whip out a pistol to smash rats when they scatter, it's great fun and who knows, one day you might even hit something. If I can, then anyone can!

[si brown 8,486]

Your mental

[Underdog 2,337]

All that and no picture ?

 

Well done all the same.

 

Like a spot of pistol hunting myself.

 

U.

[walshie 2,804]

Thigh holster. Oh FFS.

[Jonjon79 13,340]

That's f***ing awesome

 

Nice one

[ratbuster 807]

The reawakening of John Wayne the second ! Did I shoot five times or six times, boy........ ( Dirty Harry)

[walshie 2,804]

I can imagine him practising in the mirror before he goes out. "You squeaking at me?..... You squeaking at ME?"

[David.evans 5,323]

MENTAL is the only word

atb

[bigmac 97kt 13,730]

I can imagine him practising in the mirror before he goes out. "You squeaking at me?..... You squeaking at ME?"

:rofl:

 

:thumbs:

[walshie 2,804]

[shropshire dan 467]

Haha quality

[villaman 9,979]

Fcuking classic

[j j m 6,479]

quality man