...I just introduced a rat to my Henry Golden Boy.
With an angular trajectory pointed just near the corner of its shoulder the 30grn projectile pushed the vermine's lungs clean through it's left eye socket leaving a coagulated mixture of mucus and blood a foot away from the body of the pesky little demon.
Every year before winter it's the same old thing, fucking rats move in to a more favorable area where food is in close proximity and shelter is easy to come by, like my fucking deck.
But rats make for great targets, the kill zone of a rat is small, it ranges from the shoulder to the ear. Even grazing the top of a rat's head just above the eye won't kill it due to the skull structure and cavity shape where the brain is situated. The ultimate kill zone is a direct on trajectory to the area between the eyes but rats do not sit still for more than a few seconds so rapid, situation processing is imperative.
Just think of the principles behind the "3-5" second "run and drop" rule where a soldier on the battlefield has 3 to 5 seconds (normally) to up himself and run to another spot before the enemy can mentally process his target's actions before firing. Minimizing lag time in the mental process requires a more acute, reflexive sense of awareness...guys who train for these situations have a honed reactive response and can let loose a lethal rnd in about 1.5 seconds.
When sniping rats 1.5 seconds is the usual target time before they fuck off. Rats also feel more comfortable with their environment when there's a lot of birds on the ground. They guage the ambient danger level by the relaxed movement of birds.
For all who are interested I will be submitting regular kill updates as well as "postmortem" details per to the emulsion of internal body fluids and contents.
NOTE.. something that may be of interest to most everyone here is the variations in consistency of the coagulant when internal organs are violently blended with, say, intestinal fluids/contents, lung mucus and rat hide when a rat receives a rnd 160° rear of it's head into the tailbone/spinal area where the flight path of the projectile interfers with everything inside the rat and exits the upper torso and head region. Fuck, there's something artistic about a rat's intestine that is hanging out of it's nose. Take a picture for a longer lasting memory of it, one day you'll look back on it and think, "FUCK I'M A GOOD SHOT".
Stay tuned FAGGOTS there's more to come. I'll even offer up some good recipes so as to make good use of the kill.
When I was a teen we would take our .22 rifles to the dump and shoot rats. It was cool because as soon as the eagles saw us coming they would start to gather for the free meals. This was in Alaska, eagles love garbage dumps and they loved us!
@Portmanure ....here, I've got 3 crows that have been with me for 40 years, the same guys, and whenever my rifle goes off they know there's food waiting and they sound off. Normally crows take right off when they spot a firearm but not mine, they know it's feeding time...I get a lot of pigeons and squirrels too.
I was 10 years old and staying at my grandparents house when pop asked me to have a rat killing. They were destroying his corn crib. Eating the corn as soon as he put it in there. There was a tunnel under the crib where they ran in and out of a hole in the floor of the crib. I would lay on the ground with a single shot 22 rifle and a box of 22 shorts. When a rat would drop down out of the crib I would blast it! What Fun! Then I would reach under there and pull the rat out. I had about 8 or 10 of them lined up for pop's inspection. Went to the house for a snack and a break. When I came back out I Jerked the door open on the crib to watch the buggers scamper away. Nothing moved. I was thinking, "what is going on? Where are the rats?" Then I saw it. A huge copperhead! It seems that the snake wanted to do the same thing I was doing. I up and shot the snake. I had to. I didn't want it to bite my grandpa! I couldn't stand for that! Besides, pop said he'd pay me a quarter for every rat I nailed. I didn't want ol sneaky snake messing with my profits! LOL. Pop was Very surprised at all I had done that day. He expected me to get maybe 4 or 5 rats. Haha he couldn't believe how many I got!
ICEMONKEY....what the fuck, are you that sick in head where you want pictures of oozing brains and split skulls, or eye ball perforation and blown out asshole along with pics of underbelly vivisection the length of the rat's body that caused it's intestine to unravel as it's scrambling for the cover of my deck until the intestine snagged a protruding root which caused me to inadvertently smash the fucking literal shit out of it with a square shovel and even caused it's right side eyeball to make contact with the left side eyeball...I can't believe you're that psychologically disturbed and borderline necrotic to the point of DEMANDING photos of such life changing gore...what's your Rorschach rating?
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Pop was Very surprised at all I had done that day. He expected me to get maybe 4 or 5 rats. Haha he couldn't believe how many I got!
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Good one
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