If your apartment isn’t too high up, just get a BB gun, sit out on your balcony, and hunt over bait. This can be endlessly entertaining. It probably wouldn’t make any difference in the rat population, though.
BB guns typically won’t kill a rat. Need to step up to a pellet gun or a very high power BB gun.
This can be endlessly entertaining.
Came to Brooklyn from San Francisco for a week, great time, son was 8 daughter 6 wife there, all of us laughing watching the rats box each other while we were waiting for the subway.
I read once that NYC used to have a handful of sharpshooters on pigeon patrol. It was their full time job. Starting just before dawn, they would walk the downtown streets armed with match grade .22 rifles and pick off pigeons roosting on ledges.
They were said to have never even broken a window and were able to keep the pigeon population in check.