Are rats and squirrels territorial? My first 🐿

[Healthservices]

My baby Uragan's first 🐿. I notice I am seeing less and less rats. As I take them out. I know that there are squirrels moving in from the neighborhood as I never saw them before nearby. I knew it was just going to be time before they came over. Sure enough, today I found one in the yard as I came home. It almost jumped into the pool as it flipped about. I knocked it in the noggin at 20 yards with a .22 hades.

 

[Guest]

Good hit. Hot day, he bled a lot. If you want them to stop in their tracks aim for the base of their skull where it connects to their spine.

Yes, pretty much every animal you can name which is not a herd/pack animal is territorial and pack animals are territorial as well.

 

[Ezana4CE]

My baby Uragan's first

. I notice I am seeing less and less rats. As I take them out. I know that there are squirrels moving in from the neighborhood as I never saw them before nearby. I knew it was just going to be time before they came over. Sure enough, today I found one in the yard as I came home. It almost jumped into the pool as it flipped about. I knocked it in the noggin at 20 yards with a .22 hades.

I really like the look of the synthetic stock on the Urugan Compact. Thats a good looking rig.

 

[Healthservices]

Thanks Ezana4CE,

I think this is the first time I got something with the bug buster. I normally have the compact hawke attached to it or the uragan attached to the atn. But I was debating keeping the bug buster since I rarely hunt with it. And during the day I tend to target shoot. The bug buster is not something i grab for when target shooting. I really like shooting the Uragan. So lite, accurate, easy to shoulder...

Allen



Compact Hawke attached to Uragan compact

Compact Uragan attached to ATN... lol

 

[Healthservices]

Thanks Cornpone I will remember that next time. Hopefully it means I will be seeing some 🐿 in the afternoon. Maybe i should have let it feed in the bird feeder, go back and invite the rest of his family.



Allen

 

[Ezana4CE]

@Healthservices The ATN looks HUGE on there. Do you intend to use that setup? If so, do you think you will limit your shooting with the ATN from a tripod or a table? What's your impression of the Bug Buster compared to your Hawke Compact?

 

[Healthservices]

Ezana4CE,

I generally get rats at night but normally it is attached to the sk19. So I can get a quick follow-up shot with the semi- auto. But i have got a few with the Uragan and the atn. 

As far as the bug buster vs. Hawke compact. I tend to go for the hawke as I target shoot in the daylight hours but it tends to be in the late afternoon. The bug buster does not have ir. I like the hawkes' retical for target shooting and it has a little bit more magnification for target shooting. The bug buster's retical covers my target but I tend to have a very small target. As i mentioned this is the first time seeing a 🐿 with the bug buster. Pretty large target for the retical and 🐿 was easy to spot and target thru the scope.

 

[Healthservices]

The atn is heavy. And I tend to shoot from the table when I shoot with it. But with the uragan, it is easier to shoulder than the sk19.

 

[Calbarry]

Good shooting. I'm sure you are aware of the problem California ground squirrels can cause. The fleas they carry have been known to carry bubonic plague. I shoot lots of them on my permission but I never get anywhere close to them. I don't even get close enough to take pictures. Paranoid, overly cautious? Probably, but I'm not going to take any chances. 

 

[Healthservices]

I have dogs, part of reason i do what i can to keep them away. They are picked up and also bagged and tossed in trash as soon as they are popped.