Air Rifles and rats

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Myself and 'Sniper Gnome' have been out almost every night this week on pest control at a variety of locations. SG is very pleased tonight as he won the lottery; although I don't think £5.20 is going to get him far in getting a new gun.... maybe we should set up a gofundme page or something... still he seems happy enough with his 15 year old BSA Superten having just had our gunsmith reseal and tune it. Our SKAN Chronograph has it running at an average of 11.2ftlbs, more than enough.

We both use Nitesite Vipers, with my new one being the RTEK version with the integrated recording. As requested by some people, here are the highlights of tonights shoot. A lot of these shots were standing up and these things move fast and are very hard to hit at times. It being a farm, bait doesn't really appeal to these rats as there is plenty of food about.

A total of 17 on Friday and 36 on Saturday! We are really hitting them hard at the moment as poisons don't seem to be doing much this year. Pellets this week have been the JSB Diablos and the Crosman Pirhanas both of which do an excellent job.

At some point in the near future we will be running some basic pest control courses; a bit of work in our 'classroom' and on the shooting range, and then out for few hours rat shoot. These will be open to anyone once we have the details worked out. Keep an eye on our facebook page.