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My biggest rat yet. Clean headshot from a window, in the dark, in a city alley.

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Hello all! So my "origin story" is in my only other post on the site, but basically when Covid lockdown started, rats started going bat**** crazy in my city (D.C.). They chewed holes in everybody's trashcans, killed random animals, killed eachother, threw garbage all over the place, etc. etc. I have a nice little garden I grow on my deck and decided to protect it. Settled on a slingshot and fell in love with the hobby/sport ever since.

Anyway, just got a nice clean headshot on my biggest confirmed kill yet from like 35' through a fence. Truly can for scale (keep in mind they are taller than regular cans). I just hate these ****ers and wanted to share.

*Edit: Forgot to add - Using a Scout XT and 9mm "Shatter Shot" ammo.
 

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Yup, hungry rats are bloodthirsty for sure... Since the covid scandal decimated the world economy, closing restaurants, leaving food rotting on the farms, etc. The cities that used to have all of those wonderful restaurants and dumpsters full of leftover food for them every day have dried up and gone out of business in many places. They closed all of the campgrounds along with the national forests here on the west coast again this week, so now, we have a bunch of critters looking for that easy meal in, around, and under our houses again...
 
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Reed Lukens said:
Yup, hungry rats are bloodthirsty for sure... Since the covid scandal decimated the world economy, closing restaurants, leaving food rotting on the farms, etc. The cities that used to have all of those wonderful restaurants and dumpsters full of leftover food for them every day have dried up and gone out of business in many places. They closed all of the campgrounds along with the national forests here on the west coast again this week, so now, we have a bunch of critters looking for that easy meal in, around, and under our houses again...
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Yes exactly. We have restaurants on the top and bottom of our street that have closed down as well as a pocket park across the alley behind our house that used to always have people in it eating and socializing. All those things going away made the rats go into psycho mode.
 
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ConcreteBlock said:
Ibojoe said:
That probably out weighs our squirrels here! Nice shot and hope you have many more!
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I'm actually surprised one this big slipped through my months of critter control, might have been checking out the territory from a nearby gang of rats.

Thank you!

great shooting mate i put a lot of ratsack down around the place for mice and rats, yet to shoot at one with a slingshot .we dont seem to have that bad a plague, but i dont live in a populated area like you do. i allways thought Washington DC wash a big clean city.probably because of the White House shows you how much a outback Australian knows cheers
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shoot those nasty critters! I wonder if you could gain a little accuracy by using a decent air rifle. We have guys here that know a lot about both. Questions are welcome.

BY the way a scout is a good choice for the job.
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Yeah an air rifle was going to be my first choice to tackle the problem but I decided hanging out my window with something that looks like a rifle in a city with a gun crime problem is a sure fire way to get a visit from the cops. Slingshot has done me well though, have probably killed 20+ since June.
 
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ConcreteBlock said:
SJAaz said:
shoot those nasty critters! I wonder if you could gain a little accuracy by using a decent air rifle. We have guys here that know a lot about both. Questions are welcome.

BY the way a scout is a good choice for the job.
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Yeah an air rifle was going to be my first choice to tackle the problem but I decided hanging out my window with something that looks like a rifle in a city with a gun crime problem is a sure fire way to get a visit from the cops. Slingshot has done me well though, have probably killed 20+ since June.
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20! That is awesome. Only a few thousand more to go. But hurry, they breed like, well rats.

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ConcreteBlock said:
SJAaz said:
shoot those nasty critters! I wonder if you could gain a little accuracy by using a decent air rifle. We have guys here that know a lot about both. Questions are welcome.

BY the way a scout is a good choice for the job.
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Yeah an air rifle was going to be my first choice to tackle the problem but I decided hanging out my window with something that looks like a rifle in a city with a gun crime problem is a sure fire way to get a visit from the cops. Slingshot has done me well though, have probably killed 20+ since June.
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20! That is awesome. Only a few thousand more to go. But hurry, they breed like, well rats.

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Hahahaha, yeah.... sigh. I'll tell you what though, they mess around on my property WAY less than they used to!
 
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