This one seems to work pretty good.
A couple medium sized ones.

HW50S-.22, L3-9x33 EFR, sub zero or something laser light.

Usually I'll get 5-8 in a hours time around the farm. They won't stand in the green light long and you have to be fast on the trigger. A plus is you can see there eyes back in their hiding spots and pick them off inside them.
They also disappear and stay that way once you get a couple.

FVA very cool. What's the average distance? And how about FPS on that rig?

Distance is 5-30 yards. The rifle shoots right at 600 fps-JSB 14.3 gr. Jumbo Exacts.
They whomp when they hit and the rats are tough critters to kill without getting back in their holes.

I grew up on an acre full of orange trees in southern california, and we had a good crop of roof rats that would get into them at night..

Of course I had a crossman pump with a flashlight taped to the forend, and a little 3x scope. jacklighting those suckers when they came over the telephone lines was big fun for a kid.

I killed hundreds of those critters at night on a freind turkey farm with a Daisy 880 pnuematic...avg. distance was about 20 feet..it worked very well indeed.
One of those very few critters I can kill en masse with no conscience....

Makes an adult feel a bit like kid in my case,LOL. I got my 12 year old nephew into it. He uses a Sheridan I gave him and does pretty well.

We don't have enough for that but once in a while you hit one and it goes into distress squealing and all of a sudden there are rats running all over like some movie.

I would love to help you out killing rats, I hate them,
mice too. Sometimes I wish someone had a rat and mouse problem,
I'd do the eradication for free.

Every cloud has a silver lining,LOL.

Wow does this bring back some memories from my teenage years working in a grain elevator in northwest Ohio. Thanks FVA for sharing

Vid using a night vision camera to hunt rats. Looks like fun. There is a vid showing how to hook it up also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMlRWMqLXM&feature=fvwrel

Thanks for the links.
That is a sweet set up.

I have a rat pistol.



The .177 Crosman Destroyer pellets do wonders on rats. In fact I just killed four last night in the chicken coup.

Chalk up two more for the rat pistol. They made a nest on top of the coup.

Hello Winnie1300 rat pistol sounds interesting.Nice.