OHHHH. that was fun. We used to get them, (the rats) in the pig barn. Man we had that nice little repeater 22 and we would sit on the rail in the front of the barn. Sit there quiet for a couple of minutes and it was great shooting, especially if a couple kids held flash lights. I wonder why we didn't turn on the lights. That was rural NW Iowa in the late 1940's and farms did not have electricity yet. The only electric appliance the farm might have had was a battery powered radio. I wonder how long it is going to take for these rat abatement people in DC to recognize that with the street smarts of the Norway Rat, and it's ability to live under concrete floor, in the sewers and every other conceivable bit of space, plus the ability to make about 10,000 descendants in a year or two, that they have an impossible job.

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