Best I have to compare with that is taping flashlights on our rifles
and going out to the city dump at night to shoot rats.
We used to go a neighboring quarry rim, in the late-50s/early-60s, and shoot rats while they were sunning themselves down below on the rocks. It was quick and ugly, each time, and although the populations would rebound in spring/summer, there was no rat problem in that village. Just a very few smart rats. And the local cats got them.