Rat down using bait box with bird seeds.

I shot this rat using a 0.177 Vixen short at about 30 yards. Placing bird seed inside a rat bait box made for poison baits (they don't eat poison bait) and a Harbor Freight driveway sensor. The bait box stops birds and squirrels from eating all the seeds.

When edited the video I could see blood spewing out below the ear and near the end of the video a much more challenging live target on the far right appears. However I would need sit down using a bench rather than standing using a tripod and better scope to have a chance to get that very small sized target at night or even in the daytime.



Slow motion of shot

Regular speed more complete video with a challenging target at the end.


PXL_20230218_085310766.jpg
 
Last edited:
I shot this rat using a 0.177 Vixen short at about 30 yards. Placing bird seed inside a rat bait box made for poison baits (they don't eat poison bait) and a Harbor Freight driveway sensor. The bait box stops birds and squirrels from eating all the seeds.

When edited the video I could see blood spewing out below the ear and near the end of the video a much more challenging live target on the far right appears. However I would need sit down using a bench rather than standing using a tripod and better scope to have a chance to get that very small sized target at night or even in the daytime.



Slow motion of shot

Regular speed more complete video with a challenging target at the end.


View attachment 333272
Does the harbor freight sensor send an alert to your phone? Please elaborate. I stare thru my nv scope for hours waiting on a rat, very tiresome!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Dr. Kralenstein
No it sends the alerts to a receiver that comes with the sensor. The webcam I use sends alerts to my phone, but it isn't reliable. False triggers with spiders and moths and doesn't always catch rat movements. The harbor freight also misses some rats but I haven't seen any false alarms.

1676940836333.png
 
No it sends the alerts to a receiver that comes with the sensor. The webcam I use sends alerts to my phone, but it isn't reliable. False triggers with spiders and moths and doesn't always catch rat movements. The harbor freight also misses some rats but I haven't seen any false alarms.

View attachment 334025
Love this idea