Ratting

[stoxs]

Now that is sweeeeeet. I want one just for the fun of it. Nice one stoxs

 

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more fun than sex on the beach !!!

 

just be carefull it dont work to well in a greenhouse!!! a real pain!!!

[Le Sanglier]

Just a quick note to say that I never used my ferrets on rats. has anyone else?

ps I loved my ferrets so no bad stories.....please

[swinny]

I've a logun s16 i could sell lol

[the verminator]

smoking them to terriers is the most fun. second is a air rifle, bait up with peatnut butter as rats love it and have to eat it on the spot as they cant carry/drag it away

[dexta]

About 20 years ago we had a local terrior pack called the norfolk rat catchers who used a hunting horn to gee them up. we used a big bowser full of water and flooded them out,we had about three hundred one morning, lots of terriers.great fun.also have used a scud,any sort of portable 2 stroke engine with a oiley mixture and put the exhaust down the holes

[stoxs]

old farm i used to wok on had some vintage cars.

 

The fella used to turn the mixture screw up on a rolls royce and pipe from exhaust down the holes!

 

At least they went in style

[Pat Ferrett]

If I use the terriers is there any risk of them becoming ill from being bitten ?

[oldwoodcutter]

An old pal of mine,sadly now in that big compartment in the sky,used to have use of a big shed on a farm overrun with them.

One day he saw a rat on a high shelf in the corner of his shed,as he was unarmed,he grabbed a handy length of 2 x 2 and as he was about to swing it the rat jumped into his face,and its claw somehow took his eye out.

Ive always been wary of a cornered rat since then.

[Pat Ferrett]

Sponsored ratting competition for arbtalk members, Winner gets glory. A bounty for each rat, or pay to kill. Money goes to childrens trust

 

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Now that would be a fun day out

[waz77]

I used to do a lot of ratting with the terriers, used to get 100+ a week for years. Easiest way was to go round late in afternoon and block the holes up with feed bags, then wait till after dark about 9pm and go back with pack of terriers, flick the lights on and there would be several hundred rats all trying to get down the few holes they had unblocked, mad action for a few minutes before they were all gone. Ferrets will bolt rats if they are any good but can take a fair mauling. Smoking them out is fairly effective. Rodenators are illegal to use on live quarry in this country, not to mention being unsporting.