So we went to my family cabin this weekend. One of the old cabins on our property here in Montana is in horrible disrepair. It is full of huge pack rats making nests and running around.
That's a tale for a different post. We decided to kill some of these packrats and brought 2 of my .22lr guns I.E. a Ruger 10/22 with a scope well sighted in and a Kel-Tec plr22 with a red dot sight well sighted in.
My buddy and I were able to kill and hit pack rats with the Remington Thunderbolt ammo that I brought, but even after being hit they would keep on running, squirming, and suffering.
At one point we had a pack rat down and were shooting it multiple times at point-blank range and it was still alive and moving.
I know .22lr is obviously not that powerful of a round, and I also understand that these pack-rats are big. That said, I can't believe pack rats could withstand shots from a .22 multiple times unless there is something wrong with the ammunition that I might not be thinking about?
I've shot rats before with .22 and never had this problem. My friend and I were astonished! Now I also admit, that I haven't fired Remington Thunderbolt into pack rats before so maybe that's really bad ammo to use for that?
Does anyone else here have any suggestions of ammo to use for this? Maybe someone has a smililair experience with pack rats, and maybe these pack rats are just insanely tough?
Something just seems off to me though like there is a problem with the ammo. Any suggestions are welcome?
That's a tale for a different post. We decided to kill some of these packrats and brought 2 of my .22lr guns I.E. a Ruger 10/22 with a scope well sighted in and a Kel-Tec plr22 with a red dot sight well sighted in.
My buddy and I were able to kill and hit pack rats with the Remington Thunderbolt ammo that I brought, but even after being hit they would keep on running, squirming, and suffering.
At one point we had a pack rat down and were shooting it multiple times at point-blank range and it was still alive and moving.
I know .22lr is obviously not that powerful of a round, and I also understand that these pack-rats are big. That said, I can't believe pack rats could withstand shots from a .22 multiple times unless there is something wrong with the ammunition that I might not be thinking about?
I've shot rats before with .22 and never had this problem. My friend and I were astonished! Now I also admit, that I haven't fired Remington Thunderbolt into pack rats before so maybe that's really bad ammo to use for that?
Does anyone else here have any suggestions of ammo to use for this? Maybe someone has a smililair experience with pack rats, and maybe these pack rats are just insanely tough?
Something just seems off to me though like there is a problem with the ammo. Any suggestions are welcome?