“There are a lot of them now. They even walk on the verge and on the road, it ‘rattles’. You also hear when it hits. Then you hear ‘thud’. Every shot is almost a hit. Out of a hundred rats I hit about 98.”
“It’s not like you can shoot them all in one round.” Many rats take shelter in their holes, but come back later. “Then you see them sitting with the other dead rats.” In a second round later in the evening, more specimens are killed. The proceeds of the evening are 170 rats. “My record is 360 dead rats, but then the two of us shot. Then we ran out of bullets and we went home.”
He does not leave the dead rats behind, but takes them with him. “I clean up about eighty percent.” He does not find them all, but the remainder is eaten by birds of prey, crows and seagulls. “We give that back to nature. When I drive by again the next day, they are all gone.”