Cage Trapping Rats,then What?

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

I got rats in back garden and want to cage trap them due to poultry,small kids and a teacup Chihuahua.

When their caught how do you guys kill and dispose.

 

I have air guns here at the moment,but I was wondering is there a air pistol powerful enough,as it would be quicker,quieter and discreet .

I'm surrounded by properties all round,mines housing association and they put boundary fences up inches off the private homes when built,and the rats use it as highways.

Once I have cleared them at home,I then will move the traps down to my allotment as there's rats there to.

Oh and a online supplier of decent cage traps would be brill to.

[trenchfoot 4,243]

an air pistol should do the job. put the pellet in back to front though. Try these guys for traps. Always had good service http://www.fourteenacre.co.uk/

 

Good luck, but you may find that those traps end up permanent fixtures

[1Wally 204]

an air pistol should do the job. put the pellet in back to front though. Try these guys for traps. Always had good service http://www.fourteenacre.co.uk/

 

Good luck, but you may find that those traps end up permanent fixtures

 

Just out of interest. Why put the pellet in backwards?

[trenchfoot 4,243]

 

an air pistol should do the job. put the pellet in back to front though. Try these guys for traps. Always had good service http://www.fourteenacre.co.uk/

 

Good luck, but you may find that those traps end up permanent fixtures

 

Just out of interest. Why put the pellet in backwards?

 

It acts like a more like a hollow point pellet. Transfers energy to the target, rather than just passing straight through, useful when using something as low powered as an air pistol

[nod 285]

Get a sack and place over the entrance of the trap, let the rat run in and whack it

[ratbuster 808]

Yes JM,at short range it works really well, I'm sometimes surprised at what range they still stay accurate. Give it a try and you will be surprised as well.

[trenchfoot 4,243]

Does it work with air rifles as well?

it does but never use them at range. only point blank for finishing stuff off

[Neal 1,930]

I've rarely had to worry about my aim with the ones I've trapped in my garden...they usually try to get hold of the end of the barrel. Someone else told me about it and I thought they were winding me up. Not all of them, but a fair percentage.

[ratbuster 808]

As you guys say: the proof of the pudding,............

 

I shot these in a piece of pine to see what would happen, using a <12 fpe air rifle.(we don't have a restriction on the output of our rifles, so comparing is a little more different when shot from a FAC version)

 

Rifle used : BSA Supersport in .25 doing 150 meters per second ( around 500 fps) with 18 grains Norica " Apache " pellets (rather soft lead) giving something in the region of 10 fpe. Shot from 7 meters, accuracy was the same , either way I loaded the pellet, penetration wasn't.

 

Penetration is about half of that, if pellet is loaded tail to head, compared with the other way round. The skirt however will complete wrap itself around the head, so giving off all energy to the target .(that's what we were looking for in shooting the rats in the cage )

 

Pictures shows two retrieved pellets and the original model

 

[ratbuster 808]

Or you could use one of these "things " (ihmo you have to be rather quick to catch a rat coming out of the trap )

 

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[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

Yeah I'm not going to faff around with sacks and hitting it,then hitting again to see if it moves etc,when I can see a pellet hitting it's head.

[Born Hunter 17,956]

Just use fenns.