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Old 12-23-2019, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Cookeville TN
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I have chickens and with chickens come rats. I've tried air rifles, and even a .22 rifle, but they mostley come out at night and I need to hold a light--hard to hit a rat at night with a rifle. I am thinking of getting a small caliber pistol , either .22 or .17 HMR - does anyone know of any models that would work? I am not looking to buy a $400 pistol, I would like something cheaper--a semi auto or a revolver would be OK, it just needs to be fast. I am asking coz I don't know pistols/revolvers in this caliber. Thanks
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Old 12-23-2019, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Idaho
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You can get a Heritage .22 Rough Rider for about $120 and use CCI shot shells for your rats.
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Old 12-24-2019, 09:58 AM
 
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Pick up a cheap revolver at a gun or pawn shop, use snake shot, done.
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Old 12-24-2019, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Wartrace,TN
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A cheap pellet gun would do the trick. https://www.crosman.com/airguns/air-...?powerplant=23

If you buy a pump model it would be under 50 bucks and all you'd have to buy is a box of pellets.

Another idea is to get a rat terrier type dog.
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Old 12-24-2019, 01:04 PM
 
Location: Lost in Montana *recalculating*...
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When I was a kid and lived at our family farm in Ohio my uncle had an an old Stevens O/U .22/410 rifle with a flashlight taped to the barrel.

I shot a lot of rats and mice in the barn with that using .22 shorts

Outside I’d tip over bales and whack em with the .410

I have that gun now.
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Old 12-24-2019, 02:31 PM
 
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I have around a hundred various birds.


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Old 12-24-2019, 02:37 PM
 
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I have a flashlite mounted on my .25 cal air rifle. It lights up the back yard out to 40 yards or so. With a scope you can't miss. Just be sure to use a red or green lens ( I just did mine with a magic marker), the animals don't seem to be bothered by that color light.
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Old 12-24-2019, 03:30 PM
 
Location: The Triad
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Best pistol for rat control?
I gotta go with the Duke.



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Old 12-24-2019, 03:46 PM
 
Location: When you take flak it means you are on target
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I have a flashlite mounted on my .25 cal air rifle. It lights up the back yard out to 40 yards or so. With a scope you can't miss. Just be sure to use a red or green lens ( I just did mine with a magic marker), the animals don't seem to be bothered by that color light.
^^^ This.

You can buy 1000 lumen green lense CREE led lights for like $7 online. Either mount it on a rifle, or use it "harries" method with a pistol.

Rough Riders are nice guns. But nothing more fun than a Browning Buckmark with a suppressor and red dot and infra red with NVGs.
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Old 12-24-2019, 04:21 PM
 
Location: WMHT
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Thumbs up Mousetrap Monday

I assume you already follow Mousetrap Monday on youtube?

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I have chickens and with chickens come rats. I've tried air rifles, and even a .22 rifle, but they mostley come out at night and I need to hold a light--hard to hit a rat at night with a rifle. I am thinking of getting a small caliber pistol , either .22 or .17 HMR - does anyone know of any models that would work?
Before you completely write-off all longarms, consider the "Henry Garden Gun" loaded with rat shot. The unrifled bore eliminates the "doughnut" pattern issue that comes from firing rat shot out of a rifled barrel.

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But nothing more fun than a Browning Buckmark with a suppressor and red dot and infra red with NVGs.
I'll keep the NVGs, but swap in my integrally suppressed Ruger MkIII and rail-mounted IR laser.
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