Last Stand at Packrat Gulch

[TRnCO]

pack rats are bad news. I'm so glad that they are far and few between around here. My nephew in KS. has entered a one day contest for the last two years, to see who can kill the most in one day. He and his team killed 47 last year and 43 of them this year. Didn't even place in the contest. Winning teams brought in over 100 rats, in one day.
Had a back hoe burn to the ground at work because of them and also had to replace all the plug wires on a truck because most of the wires got chewed by em.
I've got a picture that a buddy in KS. sent me earlier this spring showing a hood open on his neighbors truck that wouldn't start. When they opened the hood the whole engine compartment was packed completely full with milo heads.

[rondog]

Pellet rifle, gitcha one.....

[Bailey Guns]

Good shoot!

I vid of you firing a revolver into your open hood would be comical.

I know...it sounds like "ammo" for the "WTF were they thinking thread". But I thought it thru pretty well. It was only .22LR bird shot. Barely penetrated the body of the rat. Didn't think it would damage the car and it didn't. Damaged the rat pretty badly though. I'm happy that at least it was an instant, humane kill.

[Bailey Guns]

Use red vines for bait. That will get them

The candy? I used peanut butter and he didn't take it. Works really good on mice.

[Richard K]

Take one of your wife's nylons, put a fist sized ball of moth balls in it and tie it somewhere in the engine compartment. They are attracted to the hoses and wires since our friends at the EPA have banned the use of silicone as a mold release and manufactures now use vegetable oil.

[Bailey Guns]

We tried: mothballs, dryer sheets, traps, soap (Irish Spring?) and a few other "tried and true" methods. He ate the mothballs, used the dryer sheets for laundry, bathed with the soap and ignored the traps.