Rat purse nets

[Gaz_Lurcherlad 382]

I’ve just been given a bit of ferreting gear by a mates grandad and there’s some I presume rat nets as the mesh is very very small about an 1inch has any one every used rat nets surely they will run straight through them 

[Netmaker 904]

I have made a fair few rat nets wouldnt like to think i was the one taking the rat out of one orrible things they are

[Gaz_Lurcherlad 382]

2 hours ago, Netmaker said:

I have made a fair few rat nets wouldnt like to think i was the one taking the rat out of one orrible things they are

Air pistol would be best job lol I won’t be picking them up alive 

[TOMO 24,838]

2 hours ago, Gaz_Lurcherlad said:

I’ve just been given a bit of ferreting gear by a mates grandad and there’s some I presume rat nets as the mesh is very very small about an 1inch has any one every used rat nets surely they will run straight through them 

are they full size 3 foot and above long....rat nets are normally shorter.....i read years ago of folk using baked bean cans...both ends cut off...and a ladies tights atteched with a rubber band....it sounds a good idea but ive never seen it in action

some guys have small mesh size for catching young rabbits in summer.....very handy on pest control jobs......

[Gaz_Lurcherlad 382]

37 minutes ago, TOMO said:

are they full size 3 foot and above long....rat nets are normally shorter.....i read years ago of folk using baked bean cans...both ends cut off...and a ladies tights atteched with a rubber band....it sounds a good idea but ive never seen it in action

some guys have small mesh size for catching young rabbits in summer.....very handy on pest control jobs......

No very small 1.5 to 2 foot mate 

[TOMO 24,838]

4 minutes ago, Gaz_Lurcherlad said:

No very small 1.5 to 2 foot mate 

be for rats then..

[Netmaker 904]

i made them about 14" long 3/4" knot to knot

[The one 8,395]

i just used a 1inch plastic ruler to get the mesh size and just over a foot long 

[foxdropper 17,092]

I think the tights thing was promoted by Plummer ,that well known portrayer of porky pies .

[forest of dean redneck 11,183]

2 hours ago, foxdropper said:

I think the tights thing was promoted by Plummer ,that well known portrayer of porky pies .

Happy shopper pies ?

[vfr400boy 3,112]

7 hours ago, Gaz_Lurcherlad said:

Air pistol would be best job lol I won’t be picking them up alive 

My mate uses um just step on the rat no need to shoot itv

[pengelli 365]

i can remember k p s nets from devon listing rat nets in their catalogue from years ago think they were made of hemp 

[Leeview 787]

On 15/12/2020 at 14:13, TOMO said:

are they full size 3 foot and above long....rat nets are normally shorter.....i read years ago of folk using baked bean cans...both ends cut off...and a ladies tights atteched with a rubber band....it sounds a good idea but ive never seen it in action

some guys have small mesh size for catching young rabbits in summer.....very handy on pest control jobs......

used the soup tins with stockings before tights were ever heard of and they did work, the rats bolted and got so far down the stocking it just held them couldnt get out of them by going backwards and we just hung them in trees until we had finished and ferrets retrieved this was very early 60's,we just cut the stocking and dropped the rats to terrier pups knotted the stocking ready for the next time

[TOMO 24,838]

7 hours ago, W. Katchum said:

I got some somewhere they are just a bit of netting but Om a wire hoop you peg to ground over hole, ever really used them tho 

do you mean wire netting on wire hoop ...or string netting on a wire hoop....

the wire netting on a hoop acts like a flap...so rabbits ..rats cant hole hop...keeps them above ground for the dogs or guns

[Bosun11 537]

We used to use the tin can and tights combo years ago.

It works ok, you just gotta have different sized cans for different sized holes.