What Gun For Giant Rodents?

[45King]

TallPine wrote:

How about a recipe for socialists ...?

[satire ON]
Here ya go:

1 socialist (dead or alive)
50 gals. lye
50 gals. hydrochloric acid

In a ceramic tub, slowly blend the lye with the acid. Insert the socialist (preferably dead; the screams can be nerve-wracking) and let simmer for two days. When done, flush down nearest sewer drain, or use it as "soup" for other captive socialists. One 150 lb. socialist can feed nearly 2000 socialist captives.

[/satire OFF]

 

[Mike Irwin]

"In a ceramic tub, slowly blend the lye with the acid."

Uh, you know, it's been a LONG time since I took chemistry, but I do remember that:

Lye is a strong base.

HCL is a strong acid.


Mix a strong base and a strong acid together, and they neutralize each other.

With your soup, you'd end up with a lot of hydrogen gas given off from the reaction, some oxygen, a lot of released heat, and some sodium chloride formed...

 

[kentucky bucky]

If you have rats that big it's time to MOVE !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BigG]

Would Brenneke slugs in this one do the job?

 

[Justin]

I used to bullseye wamp-rats back home with my T-16, they weren't much bigger than 3 meters.

 

[Sven]

 

[Bigjake]

Rabbits aren't technically rodents

correct sir. a little bit of useless knowledge left from my ffa days- rabbits are lagomorphs, which is roughly translated to "hare-shaped" in greek. just a little FYI


i wish we had these things around here, i love explodin varmits!

 

[NewShooter78]

In New Orleans, and surrounding areas, the local po-po's had bounties for Nutria tails. You needed a certian type of comercial licsence if I remember correctly, but if you could preserve the tails and bring them in they'd pay you cash for them. And its not like they aren't everywhere. Any place there is a drainage canal, there are nutrias (not to mention actual waterways). And silenced .22s are the only silent killer of these rodents. I once put one down with a shanked golf ball that skipped across a pond right into the base of the things neck. It wasn't pretty.

 

[V-fib]

Dr Rob, they are called “fish†cause most people that eat them are catholic and the church has to keep the “don’t eat meat on Friday†Catholics happy since they would eat them anyway.

Anyone see Dave Attells show “Insomniac†when he was in New Orleans? They have cops that ride nightly in the backs of pickups with suppressed .22’s and another cop holding a spotlight and they shoot the nutria along the waterways cause they cause so much damage to the canals. Nutria was originally brought to this country for their fur.

Squirrels are rodents too and lots of people eat them. If these animals were in my area I would at least try them. They would probably be pretty good.

 

[gunsmith]

SO,any updates?

are giant rats stalking down in the bayou?

 

[VaughnT]

Well, it's an interesting problem we're facing here.

Not knowing the specifics of the capybara, I would hedge my bet with a large, heavy bullet. If you have to punch through thick skin like on a boar, you want to PUNCH through.

Of course, if they are thin-skinned, a .223, .243 or .270 would suffice. Range to target would have to be factored in, but I'm confident in that selection.

One question I have to ask, however, is how could this creature have made it in to Texas, the land of guns and men, and we not hear about it before now? More importantly, how could any good Texan on this board sit idly by while the second invasion from across the border takes place? Remember the Alamo!!

".....when we should be packing full-auto, preferably Belt-Fed!!!" Burt, Tremors II.

 

[Strange1]

We got those in downtown Detroit.

I was in Florida, we had cockroaches that were as big as a small dog too!

 

[HunterGatherer]

I was in Florida, we had cockroaches that were as big as a small dog too!

dem's palmetto bugs


lmao

 

[telewinz]

Well, I'd use my giant mouse gun against them. Fairs fair. Your real name isn't Willard is it?

 

[ChickenHawk]

telewinz, I can't believe you just did that!

I was just reading this thread and was getting ready to post, "Funny no one has thought of a mouse gun!!

Oh, well,

ChickenHawk

 

[MicroBalrog]

Jumpin Jiminy...if those things are invading Texas, and if they compete with armadillos...

Lawdog is in BIG trouble.

 

[grnzbra]

Hey, can someone catch a few mating pairs and bring them to PRNJ? It would be great to watch the reactions of the limousine liberals here on Little Jimmy McGreevey's sandbar. Once they start wiping out their flowering ornamentals, they'll hire an outfit of professional hunters from New Hampshire to hunt them and pay them a couple of hundred dollars a head, as they did with the deer. (But they wouldn't consider selling special hunting licenses for them to actually make a little money)

By the way, rodents are family (or genus or one of those words) rodentus while rabbits are lepus (Remember that classic movie, Night of the Lepus?). Rabbits toes are 4x4 (front and back) while rodents are 4x5.

 

[SDC]

Here's what we have.. . just in case

 

[morganm01]

Insomniac with Dave Attell, in the New Orleans episode Dave went rat hunting with a group of guys from the city, they sat in the back of the p/u truck with rifles and spotlights and cruised the city canals.....looked like fun!

 

[admar2]

10mm of course.

 

[Bruce H]

Claymores.

 

[Strange1]

dem's palmetto bugs

taste like chicken

 

[Matt G]

Moved to the Hunting forum.

 

[Mike Irwin]

"Jumpin Jiminy...if those things are invading Texas, and if they compete with armadillos..."

I think you should probably be more worried about them mating with armadillos...

Imagine that... a large land tank!

 

[MicroBalrog]

I suggest we all send Lawdog an S&W 500, just in case...