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CB 22Lr 710 fps is more than enough to kill those rats. Shine em at night.
Norway rats (warf rats) around the docks get those beady red eyes when the light reflects back at you. Report back to THR on eye color of a barn rat. We need to know what the color is.
375 H&H.... oops. 22 only... okay. Hey those furry rodents are pretty tough to kill on the spot. You hit them and they run somewhere and die (I think) or they morph into more rats. Hollow points a good choice.
I have found that for close-range flushing-from-cover, the best medicine is Winchester Super X .22 shotshell from a levergun. Since shot won't cycle a semi, the lever is your fastest and best bet.
Stingers kill humanely (hey rats have feelings too). But the other guys are right about "whatever shoots best in that gun", because you have to hit them first.
From experience I'd like to suggest you shoot very carefully! Depending on your skill level you may discover rats, particulary 10-14" long can be hard to kill. Head shots are the only certain way they die on the spot. If injured, in addition to being inhumane, they will crawl into a tiny little spot and die. In about 3 days you will have a heck of a stink and more food for other rats. You could create a worse problem than what they started out with!
Since you said that the shots will be 10-50 yds, there is no way that CB Longs, shotshells, or any type of 22 short will be accurate or deadly at 50yds. A standard velocity hollow point would be my suggestion for this particular application.
I'm with you grandpa. Use standard veloctiy hollow point ammo (high velocity if it shoots well in your rifle) and aim carefully. My experience is that they don't die easily unless you make a good hit.
With as much fun as we've all related from past rat-sniping experiences...I'm going down to the County Landfill (small, rural Kentucky County) and ask if they'd mind me picking-off a few of the unwelcomed varmint rodents. My scoped Volquartsen Superlite should be just the ticket. It's fun, it's beneficial, it's great practice, and it's one of the few critters I can shoot without feeling obligated to EAT. Standard velocity HP (Federal) will be my ammo of choice. Oh! If I get continued permission it might be JUST the excuse I've been looking for to buy a .17 M2 of some sort. That flat-shooting little fireball should be a PERFECT rat caliber.
At close range the Winchester shot shells (#12?) are highly effective. I've never had a rat or mouse even twitch afterwards. Not a real high sample population, but still...
I dislike the CCI shotshells. Rodents still twitch & flop.
Any 22 , shooting rats with a 22 is loke shooting deer with a 50 bmg. I have killed hundreds of them with an old dasy 880 BB gun, man it slays them. Shoot them in the front sholder, or if you are that good right between their eyes. Happy rat hunting, it is a blast. Remember to recycle them and feed them to your dogs. LOL
oooo, if they were up close 20 yards or less, I would say that nifty bird shot... i use to use it all the time in the barn for the rats... great stuff... I just don't think it would work to well at any sort of distance
I had a relative that raised chickins. There were two barns, so he alternated "cleaning house". When he sold off the birds in a barn he would let me come in before they stripped all the "litter".
My .22 single shot and shorts...bad juju for rats. I'd haul a trash bag full out with no problem!
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