Could this kill a rat ??

Question

Okay so ive got a old air rifle the b2 custom i know its a crud rifle but still, ive got loads of rats in my shed , could it take them out it devolops 10 ft/lbs and it fires around 550 fps ( feet per second )

THANKS :)

BTW PEOPLE IT IS .22 CALIBER

Answer 1

this will do it without a problem with the right shot. I've killed squirrels all day long with .177 cal at 550fps so in a .22 that will be more than enough

Answer 2

Yes if you are less than 20 feet or so and you hit it in a vital area.
Traps work well.
This is how I removed the rats from a barn.
Fill a 55 gal drum half full of water, pour a glass of used cooking oil like vegetable oil that smells like French fries on the water. Now drill a small hole about a foot down on either side, then run a stiff wire through the barrel. Next get a used empty paper towel roll and glue corn kernels to it with Elmers glue then run the wire through the paper towl roll so it sits in the middle of the barrel above the water. Then lay a board from the ground or wall to the top of the barrel.

The rat will smell the corn and the cooking oil and crawl up the board and try to jump down to the baited paper towel roll and fall off into the water. The oily surface will make escape impossible and it will drown.
I would not try this where small children can get to it.

To you rat lovers; Rats are nasty creatures and carry diseases.
They eat poultry eggs, do property damage and are a nuisance. They have been known to chew on infants and the incapacitated elderly.
They were a major reason the Black Plague killed tens of thousands of humans.
If you love them so much, go buy a pet one!
The only rat I won’t kill on sight is a pet one or one in the woods. They have no place running around our homes and building.

Answer 3

It would take a good shot but yes. With a .177 at about that speed I ...retired... many starlings as a kid. You can get some of the hunting pellets or penetration pellets that will mushroom or penetrate deeper. Try it out on some soup cans they are harder than a rat but will give you an idea of how it will work in killing them, and give you the target practice you might need. Take not how the distance you are still getting good penetration ... and I have heard of the rat/trap/barrel before and it should work good.

Answer 4

I would definitely recommend as a minimum, a good pump action pellet rifle to take out rats. You don't want a bunch of injured ones running around taking each other out because they are bleeding. A rat feeding frenzy would be awful, you wouldn't want that.

Or would you........

Answer 5

It should, but you ought to get some rat traps as well and put them on any horizontal rails too. That in itself is fun. Just be sure to screw the traps down. Nothing is worse than having to go searching for a rat trap after the rat runs off.

Answer 6

A much better & more effective way is to use a 22 caliber long rifle rimfire to solve your problem.*

Answer 7

you might want to go the rat poison route on this one. I tried to kill a snake in my dad's shed with an old Benjaman bb gun when I was a kid, and the bb's ricocheted all over the place. To quote the movie A Christmas Story, "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

Answer 8

I have hit a chipmunk with 550 and it got up and ran away, unless you hit it in the eye, the rat will laugh at you and go about its business. I recommend a good pellet gun or a .22 that has rat shot.

Answer 9

I dont know if it will kill it, I have seen some monster rights. But if you shoot it in the head, it should stun it, giving you time to cut off its head. Or just buy a rat trap.

Answer 10

Hey, if it's all you got then go for it! You think bb's ricochet then try using ratshot......giggles.

I have a blowgun that I use on everything from rats to tree rats and it has not let me down yet.