What caliber for Gambian rats?
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El Tejon
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.22 Hornet?
I knew there was a reason I still have a rifle chambered in .22 Hornet! See, I can justify anything.
"El Tejon, why do you have a .22 Hornet?"
"Rats, giant rats. Of course, they probably will be killed by the winter, but if not, I stand ready."
I knew there was a reason I still have a rifle chambered in .22 Hornet! See, I can justify anything.
"El Tejon, why do you have a .22 Hornet?"
"Rats, giant rats. Of course, they probably will be killed by the winter, but if not, I stand ready."
Texas9
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???
3 lb, 35" rats?
.50 BMG. No less
3 lb, 35" rats?
.50 BMG. No less
Justin
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Anyone who's seen the first season of Dave Attel's Insomniac knows that the best weapon for these would be a suppressed 10/22.
Diesel man
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56 caliber or 62 caliber musket smoothbore will do the trick.
hankdatank1362
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Huh... I thought they shot some other, larger critter on Insomniac, like groundhogs or somehting (of course, a 3 lb. rat is a big critter!)
Remember Bad Boys 2?
"These ain't no normal breed of rats."
"Well what kind of breed are they?"
"Big mother -$%&*ers!"
Remember Bad Boys 2?
"These ain't no normal breed of rats."
"Well what kind of breed are they?"
"Big mother -$%&*ers!"
armoredman
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R.O.U.S.?
SoCalShooter
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meh a big rat is capabara, but these things look kinda tasty, I would say just get a hatchet or stick and beat'em and eat'em. But if you really want to shoot them use a .22lr pistol.
Troutman
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No joke. Rats can get huge. Once up in N.Y.C., on 5th Ave. overlooking Central Park, in those Co-Op's. I was down in the basement of this Co-Op where the workers (doorman, porters) stay for lunch, breaks. Their was a animal that looked like a cat, walking on a sewer pipe, above head, leading out to the street. It was no cat, but a rat. It was not afraid of humans. It had a De Niro attitude. "You talking to me!' "You Talking To Me!"
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Wow.... I thought the rats in South America were big.........
35" *** lol. What the hell do they eat? I guess someone been flushing steroids down the toilet?!
35" *** lol. What the hell do they eat? I guess someone been flushing steroids down the toilet?!
Reading the story, the rats were brought here to be pets (?). They've been linked to a desease similar to smallpox. So far, nobody has died here from this disease, but there have only been a limited number of cases.
That said... who would want a 35 inch rat as a pet?
That said... who would want a 35 inch rat as a pet?
Art Eatman
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The disease problems mentioned in the article, along with past articles of the environmental problems caused by imported species, give me a serious case of the willies. As far as I'm concerned, any foreign animal should only be allowed in a zoo. And I'm not even sure it's all that wise for the introduced game species, for that matter.
Art
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Regarding Insomniac, Dave rode around Pre-Katrina New Orleans in the back of a pickup with a SWAT sniper picking off Nutria (I think that's how it's spelled) in the canals. Nutria are an invasive species of large rodents that destroy the local environment.
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Art Eatman said:
Hey now! Leave my Ringneck Pheasants out of this!
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Rats tend to have long tails that could about for much of that 35 inches....
svtruth
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My father
was stationed in the Phillipines in WWII.
Somebody/thing was stealing his chocolate.
He lay in wait and scared the whole camp when he shot the rat, so .45acp works fine.
was stationed in the Phillipines in WWII.
Somebody/thing was stealing his chocolate.
He lay in wait and scared the whole camp when he shot the rat, so .45acp works fine.
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Introduced critters
The opposite is usually true, if the introducee doesn't just fail to make it and dies off. Think of: English sparrows and starlings, the European Rock Dove, aka the "city pigeon," aka the "flying rat," German carp, those darn new ladybug beetles that bite humans, Scotch pine (grow nice in the US, just in a corkscrew ) kudzu vine (aka the plant that ate Texas,) or African bees. All of these were brought to the US deliberately, for various reasons, in the belief that their presence here would improve the situation.
When organisms are shipped 'round the globe, and let loose, something bad usually happens. It's bad enough by accident (think lamprey eel, or zebra mussels, or emerald ash borer, or elm bark boring beetle, or Norway rat) but when people do it deliberately??? Thinking that it was a Good Thing??? Ye Gods & Little Fishes!
One of the few introduced foreign organisms that have been a success from the human point of view. I grant you the Chinese Ringneck, as the exception that proves the rule.
The opposite is usually true, if the introducee doesn't just fail to make it and dies off. Think of: English sparrows and starlings, the European Rock Dove, aka the "city pigeon," aka the "flying rat," German carp, those darn new ladybug beetles that bite humans, Scotch pine (grow nice in the US, just in a corkscrew
) kudzu vine (aka the plant that ate Texas,) or African bees. All of these were brought to the US deliberately, for various reasons, in the belief that their presence here would improve the situation.When organisms are shipped 'round the globe, and let loose, something bad usually happens. It's bad enough by accident (think lamprey eel, or zebra mussels, or emerald ash borer, or elm bark boring beetle, or Norway rat) but when people do it deliberately??? Thinking that it was a Good Thing??? Ye Gods & Little Fishes!
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scout26
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Since no-one else has said it yet.
"Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure."
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deerslayer79
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see if you can get your hands on a AH-64 or maybe an A-10
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