Thread: Hi all, new in here, Rat advice please?

Hi all, new here.

Been shooting a few rats at my brothers property, lives on a farm which has more than it's share of rats, which are getting into his home, and making tunnels everywhere. He is not allowed to use poison, anyway he has pet cats and chickens which seem to peck at the baby rats, not to mention farm dogs running around.

Does have a gas powered trap which basically explodes their heads, got around 50 so far with this.

Have a few questions hopefully someone much wiser than me can help me with!

Any tips on attracting Rats, example food? Seems bread, chook and cat food do "okay" so far. Would love to know of anything irresistible to rats.

Have read Rats don't see Red. Tried chucking red cellophane over the bright spotlamp which helped a little, may try it on my small cree torch, as I'm only shooting up to 15 metres max. Using .22 slug guns around 20 ft lbs, too much I guess, but it's what we have. Using heavier grain pellets, certainly make one hell of a thud when they hit them.

I realise they have intense hearing and sense of smell, seem to be quite a hard prey to get, as they move so fast.

Any hints or tips from you guys? Keen to get as many as we can, as there are plenty of them round.

Cheers for any hints or tips.