I would welcome feedback to my bloggs. My main hobby is shooting and fiddling with, airguns. I would like to hear from anyone with interests in anything to do with country matters. For example, trees, lurchers,birds, pubs, good beer, homemade beer,building a summer house, shooting rats, catching moles, photography, walks , making walking sticks, even fishing , which I don't do but would like to catch eels.
The other day, whilst our lovely neighbours were away, I hung around their chicken house with my new air rifle because I'd seen two rats feeding on the chickens corn. I eventually saw one as it left the wooden feed trough and it hid from me under the nest box only it didn't hide well enough and I shot it with a .177 pellet. It was a big fat rat. Very satisfying!
The rain has stopped so I'm going out to the river side to practice with my air rifle which is , for those interested, a Weihrauch HW 99S. I have another which is an HW 95 in .22. Both these guns are, in the Weihrauch tradition,very well designed and made and are a pleasure to shoot.
About Me
- Watercolours
- Builth Wells, Mid Wales, United Kingdom
- I am retired and 'though able, at last, to do more or less what I wish, I feel I am wasting the few years of life left to me. that is the reason for starting this Blog, so that I might communicate with other humans with perhaps similar interests or perhaps opposing interests. I'm 80 years old but still a child at heart.
1 comment:
Your mention of rats struck a chord, Mick. A couple of years ago we were plagued with a family of rats which made their home under my workshop. They were attracted by cattle feed that was left all over the place by the farmer. I didn't have an air rifle at the time (I do now though) so I set a big steel trap but only tied it down with string.Next morning it was gone! Under the shed coplete with rat, I think. Next one, I wired to a step ladder with fencing wire and sure enough, when I lifted the ply sheet I had shielded it with, there was a big grandaddy of a rat, caught by the legs, spitting and sqealing at me with amazing ferocity! Scary! I hit him several times with a lump of 4"x2" before he quietened down. I still have a lot to learn about rat control! It occurs to me - what is the most humane way to get rid of rats? Traps? Poison? Shooting, surely?
Dave
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