Rats in my loading room.

[M. M. Wright]

Anyone else have trouble keeping the rats from eating the SPG lube out of their grease grooves? I use about foot long pieces of 1x6 boards to set my lubed and sized bullets on after running them through the sizer. Sometimes I have several boards stacked up with my 44 bullets on them. Then there are the big .458 or .461 bullets in several weights so normally I have bunches of bullets sitting around. Lately I started having bullets scattered around the benches or on the floor with most of lube gone and tooth marks in the lead. Tried some mouse traps baited with peanut butter but they would just be sprung and licked clean. Got out a couple of small leg hold traps and baited them up with peanut butter. Caught a big one. About 10 or 11 inches without the tail. A couple of days later I got another about 8 or 9 inches. These were white footed pack rats.
Guess I'll have to start keeping my bullets in metal cans with lids. Today I started to grind the venison I killed a couple of weeks ago and the cutter blades from my antique meat and coffee grinder are gone. Nice shiny piece of steel. I doubt it is possible to find a replacement but I can make one in probably 20 hours or so but I hate rats!

[AJMD429]

I keep mouse-traps set.

[BenT]

Your going to have to start running a trap line. The fall brings mice into the basement , where I have set up a trap line. It's a lot work , get up at the crack of dawn and check the trap line before I go to work.

As far as rats go , get a standard rat trap and screw it to a support post or wall at a height where the rat has to stand on his back legs to eat and you it get them by the head.

[J Miller]

M. M. Wright,

Sounds like you could go varmint hunting right in your own shop. Them rats are as big as a couple of my cats. Eww.

Joe

[pwl44m]

I'm with You Mr. Wright, don't have time for Rats in the Man Cave. I had Walnut media stored in gallon baggies in a cabinet, talk about a mess. Caught one rat in a live trap which the Cat ate. Hope You catch em all.
Perry

[Bill in Oregon]

And here I thought this was going to be a thread about Democrats ...

[2X22]

And here I thought this was going to be a thread about Democrats ...

Drat, beat to it!

[El Chivo]

Caught one rat in a live trap which the Cat ate.

and those live traps are pretty big.


Actually, the droppings make excellent filler.

[Canuck Bob]

Don't you need permits from the EPA to harm rats? The furry germ factories are knocking on Alberta's door!!!!

[awp101]

As far as rats go , get a standard rat trap and screw it to a support post or wall at a height where the rat has to stand on his back legs to eat and you it get them by the head.

That's genius! I wish I'd known about that trick when we had them a couple of years ago...

[M. M. Wright]

Connibear traps suspended by a string work great too. On the big ones they catch both ends. Set flat on floor or ground they are jump traps.

[Sixgun]

MM,
No rats in the loading room. We have cats and our dogs are "ratters". Don't even have any in the barn.

The only rats I deal with are the big variety---about 6' tall and weigh close to 200. Some even weigh close to 300. They are all over here.........where I work. --------Sixgun

[Mokwaw]

The mice and rats have started moving in from the fields here since starting getting cold. I use some stuff called RATMAX made by Enforcer Products. Little poison pellets in separate bags, just cut a hole in the bag and the rats do the rest. Stuff works great, and best thing is the rats and mice disappear and they don't STINK once they die. I get it at the local hardware store.