Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Particularly like the 5p solution!

Good to see that the site is still a source of help.

Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I'll look into both.

Any suggestions on the best method to empty the cylinder in order to make the change?
I really don't fancy shooting off that many shots.....

cheers

Dave

So it has been a long time since I last posted here but the S410 and the TDR have been doing valiant service on the pest control front in the meantime. I have found though that the S410 seems to have developed a leak in the valve (old style ball rather than the newer T bar) in particularly cold weat...

Yeah we seem to have it round us this year again (West Berks). Shot one in the garden with the dreaded mixy just yesterday - blind in one eye, scarring round the nose. Definitely not as alert as it should have been. There do seem to be a lot more rabbits around though this year, I suspect this is li...

yeah these are big, fat, glossy well fed rats. Think they enjoyed the mild winter too. In the barn there are wacking great bags - as in several cubic metres, like the ones you get full of gravel from builders merchants but bigger, - filled with some sort of grain/feed. Looks like small shiny peanuts...

Just a couple of shots from recent trips up to the farm. I had found a few weeks ago that I didn't need to go up after dark to see them around - middle of the afternoon on a Sunday worked as well Anyway, took the opportunity to pop along a couple of evenings for the 7 to 10pm shift to catch them as ...

urgh, messy.
That is why if possible I prefer to shoot them on an absorbent surface, less washing down afterwards!

Definitely a dead rat though

Thanks for the positive comments guys. Don't know why but ratting is always so satisfying, well assuming you actually get some Was out last night and found this one wandering around in the orchard. Bit of a bruiser, as that is my size 12 for scale rats_EL1.jpg Really ought to try an get up to the fa...

So far this winter I had been happy that the mild weather had kept the rats in the fields and out of our garden. Well mostly, I am not kidding myself they aren’t around! However that changed on Saturday when I went out to the chickens in the morning and I noticed a couple of new holes had appeared u...

So I have been meaning to get down to the pheasant feeders for a while now but never quite making it. Always a reason that got in the way but finally managed to get Sunday afternoon set aside. Headed out mid afternoon and took up position behind a large oak tree that sits about 25 yards from the fee...