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Terry and I headed out to one of our permissions that has been plagued with rats. This particular property has a barn that's well over 100 years old and adjoined to a chicken coop. The barn is packed full of stuff, wood, old furniture and piles of construction materials. Initially we had gone to check the place out and at the time were unprepared for such close quarter type pesting. After returning from our first inspection we proceeded to setup our guns for low power, around 12 fpe and zeroed at 15 yards.
I setup my Brocock Atomic XR that I turned down to 12 fpe outfitted with a CVLife Eaglefeather scope and the OneLeaf NV100 clip on that has worked really well for me from past experience. Terry configured his Leshiy Classic down to 15 fpe and outfitted it with the Sitemark Wraith mini that he's only used a few times before.
This barn really only had one good spot to hang out and wait for the rats to start coming in as the sun was going down. Thankfully we found an old sofa that we cleared off to give us a nice comfortable spot to sit.
The action started out really slow with one rat coming in and running by just to the right of where I was sitting. They looked to be sticking close to the rafters around where the wall meets the corrugated metal roof.
After a few minutes I spotted another one to the far right corner of the building, with the IR light they stick out like a sore thumb with those shiny eyes.
Right after I hit that first one a few more scattered and Terry was able to get a solid hit on one that was up in the rafters to the left side of the building.
It turned out to be short night as I was pressed for time and had to get back, still we were able to get 9 rats down in just under an hour. We will be heading back, I need to bring some different camera gear so I can document a little better with video. Both guns worked really well for this type of pesting, for me it was nice to just get out as I'm still recovering from my accident.
I setup my Brocock Atomic XR that I turned down to 12 fpe outfitted with a CVLife Eaglefeather scope and the OneLeaf NV100 clip on that has worked really well for me from past experience. Terry configured his Leshiy Classic down to 15 fpe and outfitted it with the Sitemark Wraith mini that he's only used a few times before.
This barn really only had one good spot to hang out and wait for the rats to start coming in as the sun was going down. Thankfully we found an old sofa that we cleared off to give us a nice comfortable spot to sit.
The action started out really slow with one rat coming in and running by just to the right of where I was sitting. They looked to be sticking close to the rafters around where the wall meets the corrugated metal roof.
After a few minutes I spotted another one to the far right corner of the building, with the IR light they stick out like a sore thumb with those shiny eyes.
Right after I hit that first one a few more scattered and Terry was able to get a solid hit on one that was up in the rafters to the left side of the building.
It turned out to be short night as I was pressed for time and had to get back, still we were able to get 9 rats down in just under an hour. We will be heading back, I need to bring some different camera gear so I can document a little better with video. Both guns worked really well for this type of pesting, for me it was nice to just get out as I'm still recovering from my accident.
