21 January 2008, 19:44
butchloci miss rats
years ago there used to be little township dumps all around. every one of them was full of rats. Best time a guy could have was to go out in the evening and shoot up a hellova bunch of ammo on rats. Now the dumps are all closed and centered "sanitary landfills" have taken their place. They won't let you shoot the rats there. Sure wish we could be less sanitary.
21 January 2008, 20:12
B-23Not sure if we are talking about the same little critters or not but my dad and I used to shoot what we called, atleast in our area, sage rats. They really looked nothing like a sewer rat. They looked like prairie dogs but smaller. Farmers would gladly let us shoot them because they could wreck a field in no time. We shot them by the hundreds. My dad and I bought a case of 22lr 5000 rounds! By early summer we were out. My little 9422 would get smokin hot but it never missed a beat.
21 January 2008, 22:30
seafire2I remember my time living in the Twin Cities, where old timers would talk about going out to the dumps in Edina, West Bloomington & Golden Valley back in the 1940s and 1950s to shoot dump rats...
now those same areas are where the upper crust of suburbia lives...
But considering corporate America, and the number of them that are attorneys, etc... seems that there are no more rats there now than there was back in the 40's and 50's....
you just can't shoot the 'professional' rats is all....
22 January 2008, 00:53
butchlocquote:
you just can't shoot the 'professional' rats is all.
25 January 2008, 20:04
ray in seattleThe best times.......back in the early 60's, used to visit King Co. landfills out east of North Bend (Seattle area)....go in there after dark, a beehive of eyeballs staring back at you, rats, mice.....behold, a flashlight taped to a Win. M61 pump .22 rifle and a Colt Huntsman .22 auto........great times now gone. r in s.
25 January 2008, 21:12
seafire2Ray,
I remember when I was stationed at Madigan Hospital in the late 70's and good old I 90 wasn't complete thru North Bend there....
Back when North Bend was definitely a Logger's Town, instead of a suburban bedroom town like today....
I sure miss the Washington State that existed in those pre yuppie days...what a heavenly place, with really great people...
Just goes to show how 'progress' sure can ruin a lot of wonderful places...