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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Now I iust gotta decide if I wanna go all Rambo

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You'll shoot your eye out ...
 
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