Rat Killing Done Wrong

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I was at my brother's over the weekend. Early Sunday evening he was feeding his animals and I was on his back deck watching to make sure he did everything correctly. The back deck is elevated about 12 feet above the ground.

While he was feeding, 2 large rats came out of a shed where he keeps some feed. They scampered around for a couple of seconds and each of them went inside a hole at the base of the concrete foundation of the shed. The holes were about 12-14 feet apart. In a couple of minutes, one of them stuck his head out of the right hand hole.

I checked to make sure my brother was nowhere around and I reached inside my pocket for my trusty Glock 19. When I moved to get the Glock, the rat went back inside. I waited a minute and he stuck his head back out. I put the front sight on his little head and waited to see if he would come on out. It was only about a 10 yard shot but his head was a little target.

I decided to try him and I squeezed the trigger and sent 115 grains of ball right through his skull. One shot, one kill, Carlos Hathcock style.

My brother finished his feeding and came on the deck with a scoped .22 rifle. We were watching the holes, him on the right, me on the left. In a minute or two, another rat stuck his head out. I told Mark to go ahead and get him. He shot and immediately at the crack of the rifle, something struck my cheekbone...hard.

I said Damn! and Mark looked at me and asked what happened. Then he said I was bleeding. I reached up and wiped the blood and the piece of whatever had hit me. I guess it was a piece of the bullet or a piece of the concrete foundation. Whatever it was, it hit and hit hard.

It bled quite a bit and was a little sore for while. The scary part was it was very close to my eye. If it had hit my eye, it would have been bad. Of course we both should have used eye protection. But, I just pulled the Glock out for one shot. Mark was only taking one shot. What could go wrong with just taking one shot? This...

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Glad things were no worse than you've posted Larry...…..seriously this could have turned out MUCH differently and I'm sure you realize that. Thanks for posting this experience on here.
 
Had a piece of a Lucky 13 green bullet come back off my swinging target and stick in my leg once. That stuff sucks
 
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Funny how we only notice something is a stupid idea until we are shown its a stupid idea. Glad you were not hurt worse or permanently
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
First we have to suffer through a picture of your ass bit spider wound. I let you off the compound for ONE week end and you subject us all to this....sheeeeeesh…..
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Billy, just a different cheek, that's all.

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Geezer I was killing rats with an air rifle when I was 12.

Dad worked at a power plant. When I was 8 or 9 he took us to the dump they had. He took a shot gun. He was killing rats the size of house cats.


Now when the get that size they ain't stupid. I had one get in the house and it would never take a baited trap. I was home one day, just me. I heard cellophane rustling. It was the rat. I eased back to where I keep a pistol loaded with rat shot. I eased back around the corner. It had its back to me. Good. I popped it. The damn thing was so big it took up all the space on a dust pan.

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Geezer said:
All of these snarky comments and not even one word about my superb marksmanship for hitting a tiny rat's head with a plastic handgun, a Glock at that, in the inferior 9mm.
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You sure it wasn't a bit of concrete that went through the rat's head, instead?
 
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BatteryOaksBilly said:
First we have to suffer through a picture of your ass bit spider wound and now your mug shows up with a hole in it from a rat assassination. I let you off the compound for ONE week end and you subject us all to this....sheeeeeesh…..
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@BatteryOaksBilly,
As soon as the reassignment surgery is a success, please put him (? :eek:) in a long timeout.
 
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I think it was concrete that got ya. Bullets don't bounce off of concrete as far as I know. I shot my dad's 38 S&W (sometimes known as 38 Short) at a tree stump when I was a teenager and the big slow 158 grainer came right back at me, just missed my head.
 
Geezer said:
All of these snarky comments and not even one word about my superb marksmanship for hitting a tiny rat's head with a plastic handgun, a Glock at that, in the inferior 9mm.
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We figured it was just a luck shot. If you had repeated it, well then it would have been something. :D


Suddenly, I'm remembering a scene described in the book, Catch-22. ;)
 
Amps 13 said:
Funny how we only notice something is a stupid idea until we are shown its a stupid idea. Glad you were not hurt worse or permanently
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\Yes, exactly.

Reminds me of this past week of school, the first week of school - a young man was flirting with a girl on the second day and had a pen in his hand. In their flirting around she smacked his hand, the one holding the pen. The pen went into his eye.
This guy, who I taught last year and really is a great young man, very respectable and mature, had to get a 10mm cut in his eye fixed.
Theyre saying he might need a cornea transplant, but that no matter what happens, his vision wont get any worse...its currently very blurry, hard to see out of.
He just recovered from a basketball injury to his knee which meant he missed this football season but he was all set to go for basketball season...yeah, his high school sports days are done.

We do things every single day that if one SMALL thing was changed would change our lives.

Im glad that @Geezer is ok, especially since a couple inches (at most) could have meant his eyesight.
Crazy stuff.
 
Dang man! Glad it missed your eye. This is a good example, if it was a .22 fragment that hit you, how rimfire rounds can hold their energy when they ricochet back at you.

Edit: I meant to say small caliber rounds not rimfire rounds in my post above. Brain farts can be bad sometimes.
 
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I'd say you're a candidate for plastic surgery. And while they're working on that nose maybe they could repair the wound for free. <snicker>
 
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Thanks for sharing this, would have been easy NOT to post it.

 
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"It's a rat writ, writ for a rat..."
 
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Are you sure that rat didn’t just walk it off and thank his lucky stars it wasn’t a .45 ACP?
 
So that's what a rat turd at 900 fps will do.:eek: Good shootin with the Glock. Glad you are ok. I'll bet you think twice about chootin a rat next time. :D
 
I RO'd the Mission 22 3-Gun match a couple weeks ago. The stage was such that I ended up standing about 10 yards from a shotgun knock down target (~4" square plate). I got hit with shrapnel/splatter/birdshot ricochet by just about everyone of the ~85 shooters that day.

Anyone that's been around competitions involving steel targets at pistol/shotgun distances will have a similar story.

Eye pro isn't optional!
 
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