The Hunt

    We have a rat problem.  Rat Ratus is roaming the backyard with his friend.  These two rodents are attracting friends and I can't stand it.  So I bought a couple of pellet guns and invited a friend over for a Saturday Night Barbecue.  We ate our dinner and while our wives talked we took to target practice.  It was getting close to night fall, the time when my short four legged friends would roam the wires above my backyard.  They must have known something was up.  The first one stopped next to the telephone pool and stared down at us.  I'm sure what he saw were two guys with two sticks pointing at him.  I waited for Chris to take the shot, he had the scope so the shot was his.  (We had worked out an efficient plan for the kill.  One would take it down off the wire with one shot, and then the other would run over and place a second pellet in the head.  At that point I would toss the kill into a pillow case, run upstairs and feed the dead animal to my snake. No waste no haste)  Chris didn't take the shot for the animal took off and Chris was unable track it with the scope.  I took a shot as it ran by but totally missed.  Chris pulled out his C02 hand gun and fired a few shots but the animal had already disappeared into the bushes.  It was now getting really dark.  But before we called it a night a second one appeared.  This time Chris was ready.  He had something in the middle of his scope but he thought it was a branch shadow, well until it took off running.  It happened so fast he didn't get off a shot.  As it ran down the wire I tracked, got a bead and fired.  It flew off the wire with a horrible death scream and into the bushes.  My wing man turned to me and said "You fuckin, got one, I don't believe it"  By this point I was reloading the rifle for the head kill.  This was supposed the job of the other person who didn't take the shot, but oh well.  After reloading I went in for the carcass.  But I couldn't find it,  It had did what I feared it would do.  It must have crawled away and died.  I searched  for the body for the next few days but didn't find anything.

...........I've killed more rats and mice in my lifetime then you'll ever know.  DNAX trained me to be a killing machine.