The young tree rat decided to take a nap on my tree.....

[qball]

I was in the middle of making my coffee and saw an orange blur/movement in my tree. Calmly walked out to the garage and grabbed my dream-tac compact and went to the rear corner of the house. At first I thought it took off but then through the scope I realized it is at the same spot just very well blended in. It was just taking a nap, I can see it was curled up with it’s eyes slowly closing and opening. put the crosshair on the forehead and pop, nap extended indefinitely! Watched the pellet knocked it’s head back and it even did the upside down hanging from headshots. Then it dropped to the ground and flopped around.......only down side was the wife said the kids saw it flopping on the ground and she had to tell them that the squirrel is playing......OPS! Thought they were busy.



it was hit with a crosman 7.4 pointed pellet at 25 yards flying at 670fps, found the pellet half way down the body and right under the hide! Love it!!!

zero expansion with the harder Crosman pellet but it’s dead dead still. 

 

[BackStop]

Nice shot on that arboreal rodent! What was the distance?

 

[qball]

Nice shot on that arboreal rodent! What was the distance?

sorry, should of mentioned that. It was 30 feet in the air and 25 yards from where I was standing. 

 

[triggertreat]

Good deal...Kids need to learn as well.

This reminds of one very similar that was sleeping on a branch at roughly the same range midday . I did a H/L shot and the pest never even woke up. It flopped to the ground and never even twitched. I think it was a 34gr MKII used.

 

[Ranchibi]

Nice shot and pics! So nice to have a static target and the wife sure is a quick thinker!

 

[Longfellow]

+1 on the Crosman 7.4 gr pointed pellets. If your gun can shoot them, they're a sleeper. A former housekeeper of mine swears by them and after I modded her 1377 for accuracy, it will do 0.50 groups at 10 yards. She's happy w/ that.

(Now, if I can just talk her into getting a shoulder stock for it........).

 

[qball]

Good deal...Kids need to learn as well.

This reminds of one very similar that was sleeping on a branch at roughly the same range midday . I did a H/L shot and the pest never even woke up. It flopped to the ground and never even twitched. I think it was a 34gr MKII used.

I agree, my younger one is 3 so I understand but my son is 8......a different battle I guess. At least the wife is cool with me shooting them since our roof(3 years old) will be heinously expensive to fix and not to mention the new solar panels. 

Nice shot and pics! So nice to have a static target and the wife sure is a quick thinker!

Definitely, these are dumb suburban tree rats that got use to people think they are cute and feed them! Yeah, she definitely was quick. However this isn't quite the first time this has happened. 

+1 on the Crosman 7.4 gr pointed pellets. If your gun can shoot them, they're a sleeper. A former housekeeper of mine swears by them and after I modded her 1377 for accuracy, it will do 0.50 groups at 10 yards. She's happy w/ that.

(Now, if I can just talk her into getting a shoulder stock for it........).

Crosman makes surprisingly consistent pellets even thought they look like crap sometimes. The pointed pellets are definitely a little better after 25-30 yards compared to the hollow point. I bought a ton because they are cheap and all my guns shoot them really well! 

 

[JohnnyPDX]

+1 on the Crosman 7.4 gr pointed pellets. If your gun can shoot them, they're a sleeper. A former housekeeper of mine swears by them and after I modded her 1377 for accuracy, it will do 0.50 groups at 10 yards. She's happy w/ that.

(Now, if I can just talk her into getting a shoulder stock for it........).

Nice to know those are a "sleeper" pellet because I have two barrels that shoot those decently. That pellet is about the only worthwhile one I ever find at a local store.

 

[JohnnyPDX]

@qball
Nice opportunity that you took and succeeded with. The Missus handles 'situations' quite well. LOL

 

[Blackpaw]

@qball nice work. Years ago, the first time I heard “tree rats” I thought they were real rats living in trees.

 

[Longfellow]

Crosman makes surprisingly consistent pellets even thought they look like crap sometimes. The pointed pellets are definitely a little better after 25-30 yards compared to the hollow point. I bought a ton because they are cheap and all my guns shoot them really well!

My original 1377 burned in a shed fire back in 1999. I replaced it 10 years later. At the time I figured pointed pellets were my best bet for penetration given the velocity they have. This was way before I did the whole 9 yards modding to it. Out of all the pointed pellets I tried, Crosman 7.4 were the best. I like Crosman pellets too.

That 1377 I got 11 years ago is my 'new' 1389 of today. Still going strong. Killed 3 female hosps w/ it the other day. Does need a little black Marks-A-Lot touch up around the trigger guard every so often.