Does Coyote Urine repel rats?

I’ve tried a few things….Uncle Ned’s whiz, and other non poison repellants. Like DimeBrite said👆they don’t last long…maybe a month or three depending on the rain.

Traps…both snap and live/humane are indiscriminate.

I also don’t wanna use a poison because of the feathered predators around….so I just added a scope for my pellet gun ( cuz my aging eyes suck and I couldn’t hit shit with the iron sights.)

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Now I iust gotta decide if I wanna go all Rambo

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Breck said:
While effective, those are hell on your rifling.
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how effective are they? i love the idea but at a practical range for hitting a rat without spooking it first? i can't picture what those pellets could kill if they spread out much, and if they don't spread out much - with a target the size of a rat don't you need to be as accurate as you would be with a regular projectile? and if so - isn't a regular projectile the better option?

the enemy i have in mind is a little bigger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushy-tailed_woodrat
 
M_D said:
I’ve tried a few things….Uncle Ned’s whiz, and other non poison repellants. Like DimeBrite said👆they don’t last long…maybe a month or three depending on the rain.

Traps…both snap and live/humane are indiscriminate.

I also don’t wanna use a poison because of the feathered predators around….so I just added a scope for my pellet gun ( cuz my aging eyes suck and I couldn’t hit shit with the iron sights.)

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Now I iust gotta decide if I wanna go all Rambo

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What year is that Crosman?
 
dflett68 said:
will just state the obvious since no one has: if you have an outdoor cat that's worth a damn, you won't have rats.
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My DIL's mom run a hobby farm and they all did 4H. She swears by her barn cats. She doesn't have possum problems either. Pretty much free roam animals.
 
dflett68 said:
how effective are they? i love the idea but at a practical range for hitting a rat without spooking it first? i can't picture what those pellets could kill if they spread out much, and if they don't spread out much - with a target the size of a rat don't you need to be as accurate as you would be with a regular projectile? and if so - isn't a regular projectile the better option?

the enemy i have in mind is a little bigger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushy-tailed_woodrat
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When I was a kid, my good buddy had a barn on his property that had a small population of rats. We would spend afternoons with his dad's single shot bolt action .22 rifle loaded with shot shells. The longest shots we took were probably within 20-30 feet. Killed the rats dead. If I remember correctly, we checked the spread on a piece of cardboard and there was around a 6" to 8" spread at that range. His dad paid us a bounty of $0.50 per dead rat, which was pretty good money for a kid in the '80s.
 
M_D said:
I’ve tried a few things….Uncle Ned’s whiz, and other non poison repellants. Like DimeBrite said👆they don’t last long…maybe a month or three depending on the rain.

Traps…both snap and live/humane are indiscriminate.

I also don’t wanna use a poison because of the feathered predators around….so I just added a scope for my pellet gun ( cuz my aging eyes suck and I couldn’t hit shit with the iron sights.)

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You'll shoot your eye out, kid ...
 
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When I was in high school, a couple neighbors and I would spend a Saturday afternoon at the town dump shooting rats with our 22s. The fun was always short lived because after shooting the first few, the rest of them became really skittish and only showed themselves for fleeting seconds. Oh my, the things we country boys occupied our free time with.
 
Watch some rat trapping videos…
Rats are smart and they send out the youngins to make sure the coast is clear and/or food is safe to eat. And they can get to be a pretty good sized too.

If ya go the cat route…
Don’t over feed ‘em or they get lazy and just wanna sleep.
 
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M_D said:
Good question…I dunno…late 90’s/early 2000’s.

It’s a Pumpmaster 760
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What's the serial number?

Post-July 1975 (Date-Coded Serial Numbers)
Starting in July 1975, Crosman began encoding the manufacturing date directly into the first 3 or 4 digits of the serial number (typically located on the pump tube or receiver): [1, 2, 3]
    • First 1 or 2 digits: Indicate the month of production (1 to 12, or sometimes letters like N for November or D for December).
    • Last 2 digits of the prefix: Indicate the year of production.
    • Example: 1179 or N79 means November 1979 (11 = November, 79 = 1979).
    • Example: 1076 means October 1976 (10 = October, 76 = 1976). [1, 2, 3]

Pre-July 1975 (No Standard Date Codes)
Guns manufactured before July 1975 do not use a standard date-coded serial number system: [1, 2]
    • Before 1950: Most Crosman airguns lack serial numbers; any numbers present are usually factory repair technician marks or initials.
    • 1950 to July 1975: Serial numbers were used primarily for warranty tracking rather than dating.
    • Model 760 Exception: For certain vintage models like the Crosman 760 Pumpmaster made between 1966 and July 1975, a short stamped number on the pump tube end cap (such as "16" for January 1966) can sometimes indicate the date. Otherwise, dating requires comparing physical features (such as wood vs. plastic stocks, receiver materials, and safety or cocking styles)
I have one from August 1978 that I am rebuilding. I had one before but my nephew wrecked it in '88'
 
_WW_ said:
What's the serial number?

Post-July 1975 (Date-Coded Serial Numbers)
Starting in July 1975, Crosman began encoding the manufacturing date directly into the first 3 or 4 digits of the serial number (typically located on the pump tube or receiver): [1, 2, 3]
    • First 1 or 2 digits: Indicate the month of production (1 to 12, or sometimes letters like N for November or D for December).
    • Last 2 digits of the prefix: Indicate the year of production.
    • Example: 1179 or N79 means November 1979 (11 = November, 79 = 1979).
    • Example: 1076 means October 1976 (10 = October, 76 = 1976). [1, 2, 3]

Pre-July 1975 (No Standard Date Codes)
Guns manufactured before July 1975 do not use a standard date-coded serial number system: [1, 2]
    • Before 1950: Most Crosman airguns lack serial numbers; any numbers present are usually factory repair technician marks or initials.
    • 1950 to July 1975: Serial numbers were used primarily for warranty tracking rather than dating.
    • Model 760 Exception: For certain vintage models like the Crosman 760 Pumpmaster made between 1966 and July 1975, a short stamped number on the pump tube end cap (such as "16" for January 1966) can sometimes indicate the date. Otherwise, dating requires comparing physical features (such as wood vs. plastic stocks, receiver materials, and safety or cocking styles)
I have one from August 1978 that I am rebuilding. I had one before but my nephew wrecked it in '88'
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In 1991 crossman made a 25th anniversary model with a wood stock and forearm. I bought each of my sons one these . My older son still uses his to shoot rats from his kitchen window. His neighbor has a serious rat problem that allows him practice with open sights to stay sharp for muzzle load seasons.
 

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My sister, in high school, got a "Skinner box" for a science project to train rats. (Skinner was a total genius wackjob scientist in his day). Anyway.... she got these "hooded rats". She trained them using the Skinner box to do a very speciffic dance..cool science project.
But the rats also became our pets. They never bit us, they did seem to enjoy being petted, and they were just plain fun to play with. When you have had a Hooded Rat as a pet, it makes a difference regarding how you view all the other kinds of rats.
 
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