I used to shoot them on night shift at brize norton

On night shift used to go out on patrol with the team that kept the aifield clear of rabbits/hares and rats. They used 12 bore shot guns, so guaranteed to hit them with 'something!'

Posted By: Cheltenham_Canary on March 11th 2015 at 12:19:31

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Rats!!! (General Chat) - Chicken, Mar 11, 10:17:00
- 3 options (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Mar 11, 12:01:08
  - My uncle who was a farmer (General Chat) - Chicken, Mar 11, 12:14:29
    - Shotgun i think. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 11, 13:11:42
    - I used to shoot them on night shift at brize norton (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 12:19:31
      - RAF: A Life Without Limits (Unless You're a Rabbit) (n/m) (General Chat) - CWC, Mar 11, 12:28:51
- *sensible answer warning!* (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 11:44:00
  - I think the OP said the council were taking care of it... (General Chat) - Pixelman, Mar 11, 12:23:16
    - Correct - the council came last Monday and this Monday (General Chat) - Chicken, Mar 11, 12:31:47
      - yup - we also put our bird feeders away.... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 14:46:38
  - yay! A pile of rotting dead rats in your garden! (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Mar 11, 11:54:35
    - They always expire underground from poison/fatal pellet shots (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Mar 11, 12:09:38
      - Not true (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 12:15:23
    - Strange but we've not found any....... Seemed to have just left (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 11:59:41
      - There's always a delay with poison (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Mar 11, 12:14:12
        
        What happens is, they have to cut themselves , then the warfarin stops the blood from clot (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 11, 12:56:59
        
        The poison most used for mice at least these days works differently - it actually (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Mar 11, 12:26:04
        
        Took a week or so from putting the bait down and to 'having no rats' (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 12:17:29
  - Thanks Chelts (General Chat) - Chicken, Mar 11, 11:52:56
    - We havnt found any at all..... Really strange, they seemed to have up and left. (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 12:04:02
  - I tell you what you need (General Chat) - norway, Mar 11, 11:48:00
    - I know...... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Mar 11, 11:49:26
- My old next door neighbour used to take pot-shots at rats with an air rifle (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Mar 11, 11:15:05
- Great book by James Herbert. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pit, Mar 11, 11:04:58
- Many years ago I was in a warehouse when... (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Mar 11, 11:04:05
- theres only one way to get rid of a mole blow its bloody head off (n/m) (General Chat) - eddie, Mar 11, 10:55:43
  - my cat gets them. To my knowledge none have come back from the dead yet and (General Chat) - Pixelman, Mar 11, 11:11:32
  - A neighbour of mine tried that. Shots went through a fence and made holes in my car (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Mar 11, 10:59:00
    - You sure you hadn't got jiggy with his missus Larrald? (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 11, 11:48:55
    - bloddy jasper carott got a lot to answer for (n/m) (General Chat) - eddie, Mar 11, 11:01:32
      - HA HA. I know what you mean. I used to have that sketch on an album (n/m) (General Chat) - Larry Hagman, Mar 11, 11:03:15
        
        can't beat jasper carrott that sketch has me in stitches (n/m) (General Chat) - eddie, Mar 11, 11:32:18
- bury an old oil drum and hinge the lid (General Chat) - CWC, Mar 11, 10:52:46
  - Jesus. That's some cold shit. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:56:35
    - It's from Skyfall (n/m) (General Chat) - Verity Lines, Mar 11, 10:58:49
      - Oh. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:59:55
        
        lolf (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Mar 11, 11:05:26
- Put a sign up NO RATS with a picture of a rat with a red line through it. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Mar 11, 10:42:04
  - get both, job done. Plus you can call the police if the rats trespass (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Mar 11, 11:06:41
  - or buy a mongoose (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Mar 11, 10:44:54
- Next door started getting rats in the garden when they put a duck-pen in, and got ducks. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:35:48
  - Bit harsh but I actually was given similar advice with mice. Cook one of them alive. No (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Mar 11, 11:26:53
  - Strewth. (n/m) (General Chat) - bird table, Mar 11, 10:48:55
    - Bit strong hentut? (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:49:25
  - Well, they're not there any more. And Dad didn't live there, he just turned up (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:48:01
    - She was lucky he didn't burn her alive in petrol (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Mar 11, 11:27:23
    - thinly veiled I... (General Chat) - Pixelman, Mar 11, 11:10:12
    - Probably a serial killer anyways (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Mar 11, 10:57:27
      - Probs. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:59:32
    - vvv reply to Adster. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Mar 11, 10:48:49
  - I reckon I'd have started planning to move house if I witnessed that (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Mar 11, 10:46:19
  - Your neighbour doesn't sound like my kind of person (n/m) (General Chat) - Adster, Mar 11, 10:41:06
- Initiate an anti-rat hate campaign on social media. (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Mar 11, 10:34:22
  - Roland Rat had Rat Fans (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Mar 11, 10:38:45
- flame thrower (n/m) (General Chat) - Jumbo1, Mar 11, 10:28:26
- There's a rat in me garden what am I gonna do? (General Chat) - bird table, Mar 11, 10:22:47
  - Good use of public money (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 11, 10:39:26
- Air Pistol. (n/m) (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Mar 11, 10:20:32
- move home (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Mar 11, 10:17:52

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