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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: jdb on March 21, 2009, 03:10:00 PM

Title: killin gopher's the hillbilly way
Post by: jdb on March 21, 2009, 03:10:00 PM: I have this beat up old benjimin air rifle that was missing the rear sight and I also had a simmons scope in pretty bad shape. well with a little super glue, some cardboard shims and hillbilly engineering I cobbled togeather a ugly ass rat killin machine. I sighted it in at 10 yards and it grouped 3 shoots into about 3/4 in which aint bad concidering the 10 pound trigger. took it out and killed 2 sage rats at about 25 yards. the .20 caliber is a noticebly better killer than my sons .177 and its quiet enough it dont bother the nieghbors. overall I'm pretty happy with it. may even have to look at buying a decent scope and real mounts.
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Post by: Big10gauge on March 21, 2009, 03:40:04 PM: In about 5 weeks we'll be making our annual trip to Oregon for a few days of blowing up Sage Rats. That's a kick in the pants. Can burn up a lot of ammo. :mgun2:
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Post by: bowhunterforever on March 21, 2009, 06:24:31 PM: Sounds like a good backyard gun! :hunter:
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Post by: blindpig on March 27, 2009, 05:54:19 AM: I would love to see a pic of that rifle. :chuckle:
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Post by: rasbo on March 27, 2009, 06:37:11 AM: Ive got one without a scope .177 kill the crows that get in the feeders.
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Post by: MuleySniper on March 27, 2009, 09:09:29 AM: Shooting sage rats sounds like a blast. The only thing around my place we can plink at are the starlings. We used to shoot them with the Gamo or RWS, but now we have graduated to a .22 with shorts :chuckle: They are actually pretty challenging to hunt. They are not as abundant as they are in the cities, they will spook real quick and we wont see them for a couple days. Actually right now, while they are nesting is the best season around our house.
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Title: Re: killin gopher's the hillbilly way
Post by: jdb on March 27, 2009, 08:23:28 PM: Quote from: blindpig on March 27, 2009, 05:54:19 AM
I would love to see a pic of that rifle. :chuckle:
you have to see it in person to fully appriciate the full hillbillyness of it :chuckle: but it killed 3 more rats today.
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Post by: ducks55 on March 28, 2009, 05:34:41 PM: post a pic of it lol i wanna see this thing
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Post by: T_L_S on April 07, 2009, 11:47:03 AM: :yeah:
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Post by: wazzuhunter on April 07, 2009, 07:17:44 PM: When I a youngster, my grandpa used to pay me to shoot sage rats in his alfalfa feeds every spring and summer. I made a blind out of a huge cardboard box, with fold out windows on each side. I would set it next to the holes and wait for the rats to poke their heads out of their holes. If nothing showed up, I would do my best impression of a sage rat peep and try and call them out. :chuckle: Calling sage rats never seemed to work though. :bash: Those were the days.