Rats

minktrapper

Anyone any idea how to lure rats out of a waste pile of plastic so I can shoot then before I go in with poison.

dodderangler

Ferrets!
No better buachaill

rowa

a big lump of smelly half rotten bacon, or peanut butter, the smell attracts them.

Sika98k

Burn the plastic,environmentally very unfriendly but no plastic,no rats.

deckycoop

its not the best fun but its very effective.. in a bucket mix up some bread and milk.. leave it out in a nice pile close enough to plastic. do this for 2 or 3 nites. each nite make less mix. after 2 or 3 feeds they will go crazy for it..;)

nite 4 mix up a batch of bread water and a few hand fulls off cement...:rolleyes:... once they come out to eat they will wolf it down.. with a belly of cement they wont go very far... :pac:

gozunda

Live trap works for me every time....

Invincible

I saw a video on Fieldsports last week, he heated some Nutella in a bowl and added some vegetable oil, mixed it up well and poured a trail of it near the rat run. Within a few mins a rat appeared which he shot with an air rifle.

minktrapper

Great replies.Keep them coming.Saw another one this evening got no shot off though.

Eddie B

Air rifle and lamp at night, smoker made with a chainsaw, or a bunch a good terrier's and a couple a volunteer's to pull back plastic and debris!!

Snake_Doctor

I had a Rat at the end of my lawn that the Kids had seen a few times, I got an old Bird feeder, its basically a wire "pipe", flattened one end of it, squashed a hard boiled egg into it (shell off). Then got the grill, heated it up and poured some dirty rasher oil all over the egg. I then hung it at the end of the lawn off the fence, suspended about 3 inches off the ground so basically the rat couldnt take the bait away. Following day, saw the rat running along the back of the fence and stop dead as soon as he smelt the bait. I got my air rifle, out the kitchen window, waited for it to go up on its hind legs to the bait for a nice clear shot and sent it to rat heaven.

anthonyos

another one i have heard of from the ald lad is to grind glass up in to a powder with small shards in it and mix it up with butter the rat will eat the butter and die of internal bleeding..

Vizzy

...... rat poison ?

4200fps

perno is a must for them

minktrapper

Poison.No fun.Saw a rat this evening sitting on his ass beside plastic heap.Just about to let him have it with 410.He took off.And they can run.Let him have it just as he was about to hit the heap.Missed I think.He back tracked but was a little bit wobblely and disappeared.Saw another one stick his nose out between a pallet let him have it.Don't know if I hit him though.I will use 3" magnums tomorrow night.

crackcrack30

Went at a pile of plastic a few years ago behind the house with the hurl in hand........left the back door open......big mistake:eek:

4200fps

A Jack Russel be the best guy for the job. Our old one used to run for them snap them and move onto next not wasting a second. I seen him kill as many as 10 in the space of 2mins. He played with the last rat

nice1franko

Vizzy wrote: »

...... rat poison ?

Too unimaginative. Looking for plots involving ACME contraptions and/or rockets.

greengrasscork

The smell of a ferret in where the rats are drives them out running for their lives have heaps of timber in the shed here and often few rats in it so just let the ferret into the timber give him 5-10mins stand at door with terrier or lurcher (on a leash so they dont snap the ferret) and snap snap bye bye rat

minktrapper

They didn't stick out their heads tonight.God bless my wee 410.