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WI: Record Rat Hunt in Wisconsin in 1957
Gun Watch ^ | 14 May, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 05/27/2016 10:38:56 AM PDT by marktwain

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Vermin must be controlled, one way or another. Perhaps after the old, canny, hunter and expert shot dies, his Identity could be revealed.
1 posted on 05/27/2016 10:38:56 AM PDT by marktwain
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This reminds me of the Woody Allen fake documentary “Sweet & Lowdown” where the main character’s favorite hobby is going to the dump to shoot rats. He even takes a girl there on a date!


2 posted on 05/27/2016 10:50:44 AM PDT by Boogieman
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If the date enjoyed it, she would likely be a keeper.


3 posted on 05/27/2016 10:51:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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Great vermin hunting story.

My nephew's boss owns thousands of acres of apple orchards here in E. Washington state.

In the summer months when the fruit is bearing, we'll drive through the orchards on ATV's and plunk the ground squirrels with .22's and the occasional magpie with .410's.

Lots of fun.

4 posted on 05/27/2016 10:53:02 AM PDT by PROCON
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I have (in the past)hunted all manner of vermin and edible game on or near dumps. But not in this day and age.


5 posted on 05/27/2016 10:58:32 AM PDT by umgud
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Shot so many dump rats when I was a kid in Northern Iowa I quit counting. Great way to train. Now days we shoot jack rabbits with AR’s No season, no limit.


6 posted on 05/27/2016 10:59:27 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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Darn. I was expecting a different sort of ‘rat.


7 posted on 05/27/2016 11:03:24 AM PDT by Noumenon (Destroy Islam and its followers. The civilization you save may be your own.)
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I can’t say she enjoyed it. Especially not the part where he threw a dead rat in the car with her!


8 posted on 05/27/2016 11:06:19 AM PDT by Boogieman
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it didn’t work?

2012 Wisconsin Presidential Results

99.9% Reporting
Candidate Party % Popular Vote Popular Vote Electoral Vote
Winner B. Obama (i) Dem 52.8% 1,613,950 1


9 posted on 05/27/2016 11:09:16 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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How many of those rats did he eat?


10 posted on 05/27/2016 11:14:23 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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We need more opportunities for our young folk.


11 posted on 05/27/2016 11:25:50 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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None. Rats are supposed to be quite good, though. I recommend the book “Coming out of the Ice” by Victor Herman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Herman


12 posted on 05/27/2016 11:26:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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If I’m ever starving in a Siberian gulag, you bet I’d eat rats, and be happy to get them.

Until then, I only shoot what I intend to eat. I understand that rats and other vermin should be destroyed, but I personally don’t indulge in the pastime. I don’t say that nobody else should, only that I don’t care to.


13 posted on 05/27/2016 11:52:59 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: DIRTYSECRET

To eat rats? Or to get shooting practice?


14 posted on 05/27/2016 11:54:23 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Hah...

Never had an hostility to rats until I had two young children. Then suddenly the sight of a rat caused me on a deep lizard level to want to kill them...all of them.........ugh...knuckles dragging on ground.

So while on an objective level I get the dislike of sport killing (share that myself), with rats I think I could enjoy a 2 hour film of rats being shot and killed. It would be most satisfying seeing them dispatched and I Have a natural fondness of rat killing dogs.

I think there must be some survival instinct based on northern European family history. No idea why that is the case, but it is. Also never felt anything like it until I had young kids, then ...wow it was like a switch turned on.


15 posted on 05/27/2016 12:43:52 PM PDT by Frederick303
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On some level there is a instinctual human drive to kill rats:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXTiYQzzbB8

Having it I would guess it dates back to the middle ages and the black death, or.....it relates to the danger that rats display to young children. So if you have young kids and you see a rat, there is a danger there, they will chomp on them if hungry.

In any case though I would cheerfully kill any and all rats and feel quite fine doing so. I have not had to do so though, but find this aspect of atavistic behavior rather interesting.


16 posted on 05/27/2016 12:55:26 PM PDT by Frederick303
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I appreciate your tolerance. It is a quality in short supply today!

Coming Out of the Ice is a fantastic read. It is a great companion to The Gulag Archepelago.

As I grow older, I find myself leaning in your direction. It is a natural progression.


17 posted on 05/27/2016 12:57:22 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Frederick303

“I think there must be some survival instinct based on northern European family history. No idea why that is the case, but it is. Also never felt anything like it until I had young kids, then ...wow it was like a switch turned on.”

I have noticed a similar effect while teaching women to shoot. Many say they could never shoot another human.

Then I ask: What if they were attempting to kill or rape your child?

The answer is always a savage “I would kill them!”

I have never noted a hesitation. I believe the response is hardwired in.


18 posted on 05/27/2016 1:01:34 PM PDT by marktwain
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Vermin must be controlled!

The really big rats are located in the D.C. (District of Corruption) area.


19 posted on 05/27/2016 1:46:46 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Some moderator has removed my tagline)
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I recommend the book “Coming out of the Ice” by Victor Herman.

There was a movie, King Rat had a POW(George Segal) selling rat meat.

20 posted on 05/27/2016 2:28:58 PM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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