04-10-2016, 02:56 PM
The thing about these vermin is, even when shot with a very potent pellet (or whatever), they often move a lot, and even jump and run around, though they are no longer among the living. I remember when I was a little kid, my mom beheaded a chicken that was always eating her garden goodies. Tbat chicken, very much without a head, ran around and around in circles in our yard, to my amazement.
Rats often twirl their tail when shot, which some of the Brits that do youtube videos in large numbers of them helping farmers, chicken farms, etc, etc, try to eradicate these things, call "helicoptering".
Speaking of dieseling airguns, I was in Wal Mart in Hilo a couple years ago, when some neanderthal grabbed a brand new break barrel air rifle, cocked it, and then fired it (empty). These guns new come with a lot of oil in them, which most buyers know to clean out before they shoot their new airgun. This thing, I assume dieseling, was easily as loud as a .22 long rifle, and fired like that in a store. You can imagine the commotion that caused, and I saw Wally World people descending on the ne'er do well. Also, you are never supposed to dry fire on of these because of the violent action and reaction of the powerful spring inside. I think I would have made the dude buy the gun, and get out. But, that's just me. I would not buy a break barrel that had been dry fired, as it can break, or crack that spring.
Jon in Keaau/HPP
Rats often twirl their tail when shot, which some of the Brits that do youtube videos in large numbers of them helping farmers, chicken farms, etc, etc, try to eradicate these things, call "helicoptering".
Speaking of dieseling airguns, I was in Wal Mart in Hilo a couple years ago, when some neanderthal grabbed a brand new break barrel air rifle, cocked it, and then fired it (empty). These guns new come with a lot of oil in them, which most buyers know to clean out before they shoot their new airgun. This thing, I assume dieseling, was easily as loud as a .22 long rifle, and fired like that in a store. You can imagine the commotion that caused, and I saw Wally World people descending on the ne'er do well. Also, you are never supposed to dry fire on of these because of the violent action and reaction of the powerful spring inside. I think I would have made the dude buy the gun, and get out. But, that's just me. I would not buy a break barrel that had been dry fired, as it can break, or crack that spring.
Jon in Keaau/HPP
Jon in Keaau/HPP