..rat meets Predator Poly Mag.22 ... short video ... innards on the outside

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Loving my RTI Prophet Performance Compact .22. Shooting predator Poly Mags at 930ish FPS and devastating. It's a small rat and I couldn't believe the gore when I got the flashlight on it a body length away from the breakfast plate. Wish I had some Poly Mags for Taipan VL .25!!! 

This wee lad measured 10" nose-to-tail.

Setup:
Red LED 5' above the restaurant
doorbell camera triggered by cell phone
peanut butter and chocolate plate
13 yards
sitting at my kitchen breakfast bar
house blacked-out




https://youtu.be/3iFGsZZVUyA



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Gory? Yes, but the outcome of a .22 Polymag traveling 930 fps from a compact Prophet at 13 yards versus that little field mouse is hardly surprising. I honestly was expecting to see a fat New York looking rat turned inside out. Congrats on hitting the little bugger though.
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Fortunately the "fat New York looking rat" is not in my backyard ;) 

Show us your trophy rat.
 
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Gory? Yes, but the outcome of a .22 Polymag traveling 930 fps from a compact Prophet at 13 yards versus that little field mouse is hardly surprising. I honestly was expecting to see a fat New York looking rat turned inside out. Congrats on hitting the little bugger though.
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Fortunately the "fat New York looking rat" is not in my backyard ;) 

Show us your trophy rat.
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I haven’t set out to shoot rats yet. I hardly see any. In fact, the last rat I saw I clubbed with a baseball bat after it literally flew off of a rancher’s tractor as it chewed on a wire while he was repairing his starter (the problem wasn’t the starter). She was around 6”-9” long minus her tail and was heavy enough that when I picked up her pregnant corpse her tail broke as I carried her off. That was a rat. We see plenty of little field mice in these parts. I have only shot one mouse in my life and that was with a Crossman pneumatic BB gun inside of my home some years back. It pissed me off and I wasn’t thinking of taking pics of it. I just wanted it gone. Posted about it a while back in a somewhat comical thread.


If you truly want to see an animal I’ve shot and killed within the same range as your mouse it’s not hard to find in the hunting thread forum. It’s not much to brag about, although I personally enjoyed the experience. If I offended you I apologize. The title threw me off. I didn’t mean to poop in your cereal. To me “rat” and “mouse” are not synonymous, but I’m usually delighted to see both of them dispatched, especially in and around homes and farms. 
 
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Its 10"

Cereal is still good :)

It's either a really big mouse or a small rat I don't care either way it's dead
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We have two cars with underhood insulation chewed up by rodents so I am pretty bent on getting them.
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Wow! I wouldn’t have guessed it was that long. Which scope did you use on your Prophet? And at which magnification?

That’s no good. When I saw that rat fly off the tractor after chewing into a live wire I got a good sense of what they can do to wiring. Heard plenty of stories of them chewing up vehicle wires. We have that problem with them coming out of the cold most winters. For vehicles that don’t move often I started putting poison blocks or bait stations under the hoods and on the ground around the undercarriages. Have you tried that? 
 
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Great shot! DIE YOU LITTLE $#@%!

Oh yeah, peanut butter works better than anything I've found at attracting those pests.

Fyi, if you want to keep those dang pests out of your car, put some bars of Irish spring (leave them in box) in your car underneath the seats, and if you can, zip tie one somewhere it wont get too hot underneath hood. Keeps them out. They hate the smell, smells good to me and it works. Haven't had a rat or mice in my cars for years. I change them out about every six months.
 
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