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For the shooters: Recommend me a small bore silenced shotgun for vermin control?


Chris Wilson

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My 12 gauge is too noisy and OTT for rats, so I am looking for a really quiet smaller bore shotgun for rats and close up rabbits. Ammmunition price and how quiet it is are important. Snob name value and beautifully carved stocks are wasted on me ;) Ideally would like a semi auto like my Remington 1100. Speaking of which I need a barell with far less choke than the full choke currently on it, and a used one would be fine, any good places to look for one? Thanks.

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A pre charged .22 air rifle with a decent scope is much better for pest control IMO. Especially if you have a firearms license.

 

Something like a BSA Ultra Multishot, which is compact, powerful, accurate and silent. You'll be looking at £500 for a full second hand setup, which isn't bad compared to a shotgun, especially when you factor in dirt cheap ammo (though I'm sure an inventive chap such as yourself would be able to make his own.)

 

http://www.bsaguns.co.uk/airgun_ultra.php

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I have a decent air rifle, but these rats are on the run most of the time, so a moving shot with a scope on a .22 is beyond my abilities, I am CW, not Wyatt Erp ;) I'll have a look at .410's with suppressors, but i do like my semi auto, although not as much as when i could load eight BB cartridges up the spout and let rip ;) Thanks. I have a 9 mm "garden gun" but cartridges are a fortune and throwing pebbles is probably more effective.

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.22 ratshot isn't a .22 pellet or projectile, its a case that is crimped down after filling it with lead shot, makes a shotgun out of a .22 rimfire but allows you to nail birds or rats running allow rafters without risking putting ruddy great holes in the roof with a 12bore (which i've done)

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Please tell me you have used your 12 for rat killing?

 

Was there anything left?

 

On another note, I have rabbit issue at my place loads of the buggers. Gun licence a massive deal to get? Costs ect.

I have had my licence for 30 years, so i have no idea what level of beurocracy one has to endure to get one these days. The local firearms department sent out renewal applications with no pricing on them, and with none on their website. They then paid for lots of extra staff to man the phones to tell people what amount they should write on their cheques. I would have suggested rather than have some banal recorded announcement to wade through about data protection and being a "diverse" force, they put the price on a recorded announcement instead, or on their web site, but didn't flog a dead horse... I wish you luck ;) The cost of a suitable cabinet and alarm system may well exceed the price of the gun(s). A shotgun can be anything from £50 to £150,000 if you want to impress the Royals at some shindig.

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A pre charged .22 air rifle with a decent scope is much better for pest control IMO. Especially if you have a firearms license.

 

Something like a BSA Ultra Multishot, which is compact, powerful, accurate and silent. You'll be looking at £500 for a full second hand setup, which isn't bad compared to a shotgun, especially when you factor in dirt cheap ammo (though I'm sure an inventive chap such as yourself would be able to make his own.)

 

http://www.bsaguns.co.uk/airgun_ultra.php

 

Love the look of the Ultra in Black :thumbs:

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Put up a board with some peanut butter spread at 6-8" from the floor, the rats reach up to eat the peanut butter and just pick them off with a good .22 when you have a pile of rats at the bottom of the board the others climb on top to get at the peanut butter. My rats love peanut butter, they used to anyway.

 

Oh and +1 on the BSA multishot :) I even have a nice leather parker knoll recliner to relax in while the little buggers try out the peanut butter. A good weirauch silencer on the BSA makes it deathly quiet, add on a red lamp and an ice cold beer and you will have a happy few hours. My feed costs have dropped a lot since employing the above.

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