Shooting in/around shed without damage

[paps]

G'day blokes,

A mate of mine has a property with an abandoned shed (big storage shed, not "garden shed") on his rural Victoria property and is having trouble with rats.

Has tried poison where he can but it doesn't seem to have taken, and he can't put it in a lot of the places because of other animals.

He's looking to get into shooting as a solution, but if shooting around the shed and it's deck and so on where the rats hang out, he doesn't want to be blowing holes through all the wood in order to get the rats.

Will a .22 be too much for this?

Never been rat shooting so no sure if they will over penetrate and cause damage, or if it should be right.

Thoughts? Or other suggestions?

For the moment we're talking strictly a rat gun so that's all it need do.

[Dylan.m]

Id be care full with shooting a 22 like that they do ricocade like all bullets and your going to brake some thing for what you want id use a air rifle, Stoger does a really good air rifle for about $350 i got mine for about $280 couple of years ago so hunt around see what deal you can get. mine shoots a inch at 34m using barracuda projectiles so that really sufficent for shoot rats.

though your really never going to shoot enough rat to justifiy it, why don't you make a wooden box with holes in it so the rats can get into it and nothing else, they love rat sak it really a fatle attraction so put it some where really exessible and leave it and they will find it.

You might also be better off getting a pest guy in if your still having trouble,

[Gregg]

.22 will definitely damage timber if shot head on.

Ricochet would also be a concern like Dylan said if he's shooting in doors.

Another vote for an air rifle here too...

[paps]

Thanks for the feedback guys, I'll pass along the idea of an air rifle to him.

though your really never going to shoot enough rat to justifiy it, why don't you make a wooden box with holes in it so the rats can get into it and nothing else.

I'm just playing messenger here so don't have the full story. The short version was poison wasn't doing the job...

He's keen to shoot regardless so trying to kill two birds with one stone too here I think...

[Dylan.m]

.22 will definitely damage timber if shot head on.

Ricochet would also be a concern like Dylan said if he's shooting in doors.

Another vote for an air rifle here too...

i think he will get sick of it though i really seriously suggest make a box with some holes in it and put poision in it that way you won't be killing any thing else. theres a lot easier things to hunt then rats plus if you got a shed near your house and it infested with them sooner or latter there going to move on the house so id do my best to kill them all off in one massive hit there not bunnies you don't let them live for sport.

[Aster]

I think he will get sick of it though

Sick of shooting? Blasphemy

[Hardcast]

This is what you need ol mate, when we moved to this house the neighbors had a pile of junk in the back yard and rats used to come over
the fence, run along the top rail and head for an Almond tree in the back yard,..... Good off hand practice.
Not powerful enough to go right through the galvanised iron cladding.
.22 Feinwerkbau.

[Dylan.m]

I think he will get sick of it though

Sick of shooting? Blasphemy

Rats are too smart i had a friend once who kept them as pets, you may get a couple then the rest will wisen up really quickly and you will never see them again.

[rigatoni]

.22 Feinwerkbau.

Interesting stock profile on the front of that? Looks a bit like a heavy bench stock?

Wouldn't be on an air rifle though of course... ?

[Guliver]

Before my Father in-law popped off, he used to let me use his 4010 shot gun with what he said were rat shot cartridges, not sure exactly what the cartridges were. Heaps of fun, didn't damage the shed walls and it's very hard to miss. This was around the pig sheds.

[on_one_wheel]

.22 Rat shot.

[beerd]

.22 Rat shot.

Hmm, that's clever.

[AlphaGenesys]

.22 ratshot and a rifle for that only. I herd stories of good .22s being rooted from rat shot. Maybe something like a single shot Lithgow. Open sights sounds like it would do the trick.

[Member-Deleted]

Shot heaps of rats in our shed with rat shot, I would recommend safety specs as I have quiet a lot of the stuff buried in my arms from ricochets. And at close range(1ft and under) It can go through tin.
My best is 4 rats in one shot with the stuff so see if you can beat that one.
And I use a savage 24 for them with iron sights and have for years but she still shoots better then me

[Arth]

My best is 4 rats in one shot with the stuff so see if you can beat that one.

How much spread do you get with these things?

[Member-Deleted]

How much spread do you get with these things?

These were huddled together inbetween two bits of tin and must have been 30cm away, with all four of there heads occupying the space of a 50 cent peice

[Aster]

These were huddled together inbetween two bits of tin and must have been 30cm away, with all four of there heads occupying the space of a 50 cent peice

Still, four at once is a ripper of a shot.

[Hardcast]

I remember the old guys talking about Rat shot, but have never used it,

Can you still buy it, ? Wondering how it would go at close range, (6.0 mtrs) on parrots in the fruit trees, or Mina birds.
I've got an old Lithgow that's nearly shot out.

[keen]

These were huddled together inbetween two bits of tin and must have been 30cm away, with all four of there heads occupying the space of a 50 cent peice

Leave that bit of the story out.

Bad ass