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#75800 - 02/10/03 07:45 AM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
ltlCLEO Offline
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Registered: 06/15/01
Posts: 1119
Loc: brownsville wa.
How can anybody acuse the indians of taking too many rats???

Every indian nation has its own rat hatchery,they call them reservations!!

We used to play baseball with live rats as baseballs.Hard to pitch but you would be surprised how far into a field you can smack one with a shovel.

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#75801 - 02/10/03 09:42 AM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
BillyBob Offline
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Registered: 09/28/00
Posts: 243
Loc: Kapowsin, Wa
Is there a "Rat Weight calculator" out there, or is there a formula that we can use to adapt the fish weight calculator to rats? My scale only goes to 10 pounds, and I've shot some big ones over by the hanford nuclear range. It's pretty fun and it's really easy to see them little glow-in-the-dark suckers skittering across the open ground at night.
A huntin' buddy of mine said he was out there last year when he saw the Grandaddy of all rats. When he shot it, it began to charge him and he said he emptied his 18 shot .22 into it. He finally finished it off with the .44 pistol he was packin'. Woulda been nice to see just how big he was.
Make sure you take the big bore guns if you hunt Hanford.
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#75802 - 02/10/03 01:52 PM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
Steve Ericsson Offline
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Registered: 10/31/02
Posts: 541
Loc: Olympia, Wa
Obviously they are after the legendary Desert Rat. A little know, often misunderstood species very similar in legend to the Yeti. Not often seen, but when found and aproached can do massive damage. They must have an outbreak. Lights? Might work, rats seem to scatter pretty easily. I am thinking a red light so not so much glare. I am also thinking about NiteVision goggles, or a new night vision scope for the ol' .250 Savage. That oughta' do it!

DIE YOU RAT BASS TURDS, DIE!!! beer
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#75803 - 02/10/03 01:55 PM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
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Smolt

Registered: 12/28/01
Posts: 90
Loc: Sadly in Seattle
Hey I hear down in New Mexico people were killing so many rats that the government and the Native Americans came up with the Hantavirus as a scam to keep ther rest of us from taking so many. Any of you experts know for sure?

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#75804 - 02/10/03 08:12 PM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
Dave D Offline
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Registered: 10/04/01
Posts: 3640
Loc: Gold Bar
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#75805 - 02/10/03 10:29 PM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
gsiegel Offline
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Registered: 12/21/02
Posts: 183
Loc: Graham
Lead Thrower,

I believe I speak for all the "True Sportsmen" here. Your condoning that kind of party rat-hunting like in the picture is an embarrassment to all of us. Anyone on this board could tell you that if youre' gonna use 50 cal machine guns on rats NEVER do it in groups of more than six hunters! Makes it much too hard to figure out who shot each rat and proper tagging is impossible. Besides- party hunting for rats is illegal and anyone who says different is a disingenuous lunatic (but not you or me)!

GS
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#75806 - 02/11/03 10:18 AM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
Dave D Offline
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Registered: 10/04/01
Posts: 3640
Loc: Gold Bar
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#75807 - 02/12/03 07:36 PM Re: Any Rat Hunters out there?
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Registered: 09/08/02
Posts: 420
Loc: Seattle
When I was little, my dad had a rat infestation in the basement of one of his rental properties. A buddy of his went down there and did some street sweeping with .22 birdshot and cleaned up. Got a couple magnum sized ones too. Makes me wonder if there are any Boone and Crockett measurements out there for rats? It would be something to a display of record book rats next to the deer and elk racks at the sportsman shows.
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