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And, a Rat from the Whack-A-Mole Gallery "Carnival Shooting Gallery Duck Chain" of rats,... the Whack-A-Mole Rat Chain.
In the first image, on the left side, is a white'ish item immediately below the backstop, on center to the backstop. That is a Rats belly fur, from a Rat that I popped on that horizontal backstop path, that I described above. The second image is that Rat.
From about a week ago:
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Moke said:
This is the backstop of a 35' patio shot. It is two landscape timbers that are turned 4"x4" to create stackable "logs" (big box purchases). On top is two courses of fence boards to create an 18" tall backstop. This creates a backstop that is sort of like this -> __|
I stapled a piece of grid wire in as a triangular filler between the vertical and horizontal that makes a grid tunnel. I cut a pass through to cleanly dump a spoonful into the tunnel.
The Rats very frequently enter this target range from either side, and use the horizontal flat wood as a path from one side to the other, like the Duck chain at the carnival shooting gallery.
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The Rats run along the two baseboards, on that horizontal/vertical interface rat path. The hardware cloth creates a triangular tunnel
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This is that range, above, ^. The backstop is to the left of the image. I call it the Whack-A-Mole Gallery due to the frequency of shots at Gophers popping their heads out in front of the backstop,... that and plenty of rats too. It is my wifes wild bird feeding station.
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Nice setup! The one I’ve built at my weekend account is pretty much the same .. I’m going to put inside my back stop box a bag of rubber mulch,the wall holding the mulch in behind will be carpet .. featuring an awning .. the awning will give the rats confidence and a false sense of security…also helps funnel them to the bait set faster with less skepticism.. I took what I’ve learned with my setup and incorporated it into that one
 
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I like it. The rats in my area love bird feeder seeds, but the birds clean it out each day. Using this idea I can shield the seeds from the birds but let the rats eat it. Small downside is I have to shoot through the wire, might hit it if my aim isn't good. I like using seeds because they last a long time and ants don't eat it. I think I use some chicken wire I have already.

Should I shoot the rats with a low power <12fpe 0.177 or use my 0.25 with a Polymag at 900 fps to blow them up?
 
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BlackICE said:
I like it. The rats in my area love bird feeder seeds, but the birds clean it out each day. Using this idea I can shield the seeds from the birds but let the rats eat it. Small downside is I have to shoot through the wire, might hit it if my aim isn't good. I like using seeds because they last a long time and ants don't eat it. I think I use some chicken wire I have already.

Should I shoot the rats with a low power <12fpe 0.177 or use my 0.25 with a Polymag at 900 fps to blow them up?
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I’d say that’s all relevant to ur backstop… go with the 12 fpe to “err on the side of caution” …feel out the situation .. take some practice shots with a paper rat cutout behind the wire and train soo when the time comes to pop one , you can do so with surgical precision..
 
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BlackICE said:
Nothing but dirt hill as a backstop. But I guess I have to be accurate enough to go through the about 1" holes in the chicken wire so a head shot with the 0.177 would be more than enough. Then again a 50fpe .25 hitting the wire would probably still hit the vitals with a lung shot.
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Be ready to patch the chicken wire. I had pretty heavy wire fence around part of my veggie garden, but my target is beyond that....both my ... .22 and .25 took care of that issue.
 
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Yes, definitely to the 1" opening chicken wire, as opposed to the 1/2" grid.
I had that piece of the grid in my hoarding scrap pile, and grabbed it. Today, I get to rummage through my neighbors hoarding pile for some larger grid.

Nothing changed overnight. The bait pile is still there. This means that perhaps they are not comfortable with new things; highly likely. Or, I've already cleaned them out, for now; they'll make more.
 
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My backyard rummage sale revealed this piece of wire fence material.
It is a 2"x4" grid pattern. I propped a piece of 1.5" wood up behind the grid and shot it a half dozen times without hitting the grid.
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And in deeper rummaging, I came up with some remnants of galv. corrugated steel, for an awning.
This is just spring clipped into place until it plays out a bit. The galv. corrugated steel angles outward like a real roof even in this temporary rigging. It probably even stinks of rat already.

remember,... key words here: scrap stock from debris pile
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Alright,.... I added the 2"x4" grid this morning, and then started thinking about that grid perhaps being too large, and making the bait accessible to Coyotes. This went on until I finally did something about it.

I wanted to reduce the size of the opening in the grid to a smaller size, but not have to buy any new wire fence material.
To that end,.... I took my angle grinder and cut off an end of the fence material. It amounted to 4 vertical rectangle sections wide (four sections, 2" wide).
I then took that piece of cut-off stock, and turned it 90º, perpendicular to the main wire grid, and wired it in place. This reduced the profile in the feed area to a grid opening of 2"x2"
New bait loaded.

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look towards the center of the image to see the reduced grid. It is towards the center of the grid works. It is marked with the black wire ties on the corners of the added grid.
 
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And, just like that, an update.

My wife had just given her birds their evening feeding. She was putting it away in her storage box, when she saw the Rat enter onto the base board that leads to the wire grid and bacon; entering from the right. It got to the wire grid, and stopped, and jumped to the dirt floor, and started eating seed right where it lies.
By the time I got out to stalk it, (yes, stalked, with a standing shot while leaned into the house), it was already on the dirt. It was facing away from me, but at a 3/4 profile from the rear.
It flopped its tail a couple of times, then went still.

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