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Buy a thermal scope and mount it on an air rifle. Bye Bye rat. SJC

Either dead or at the Chiropractor!

Not to rain on anyone's parade; Past generation farmers use to say, if you see one rat, you have ten.

try mixing corn meal and baking soda...they eat it and die

In our old house, we had a rat from hell. Chewed holes in between cabinets in a island and chewed the drain tube for the washer. The water on the floor was how I found the holes from cabinet to cabinet. Traps set upstairs and in the basement. No luck. Few weeks later, dishwasher wouldn't work. Prick chewed wires. Added hardware cloth under and throughout the entire dishwasher. Still couldn't catch the bastard. I was home during a rainy day, and heard him in the dog food bag. Set up with the pellet gun, and a hr later I had my chance and missed. Left one chewed hole under the cabinets open open, and left a trap there, finally after almost a month of trying to kill this thing, he messed up and the trap got him. Called him Rat bastard. Thing had a PHD in pissing me off. But I won't the war.

Bees have settled in. Carrying pollen into their new home, this morning.

We are only a couple weeks from June, and the next week looks like some kind of rain everyday with highs in the 50's. I've got standing water in 4 spots on the lawn where I cannot take my zero-turn mower without getting stuck. Of course the grass loves it and is getting close to a foot high. The lawn looks like crap. And usually we have the garden in by now, but right now it is a mud-pit. With rain every day and night it is never going to dry out. And with temps staying below 60 degrees, the soil temp is not going to allow anything to germinate anyway. I have experienced this once before and almost all of the seed rotted because of the cold and rain. There I feel better now having got that all off my chest.....Ha-ha-ha-ha. Anybody else finding this weather to be challenging?

Pretty much any politician for that matter.

I think that is not the right deer. These two are correct.

I think I found it.

When it rains hard around here it is a pretty good bet the local Turkeys will be coming out of the woods and heading into more open areas. I believe they feel the rain and wind in the woods makes for conditions that take away to some extent their keen senses, I think they feel safer in open areas where they have good vision of their surroundings. I have these guys patterned pretty well. Bottom line, if I still hunted Turkeys I would be hunting the edges of woods on rainy days. Al

Trouble is I never see him at night Always during the day on my blink cam

I would not think he would be very healthy even though he got out of the trap. As mentioned above it is pretty much guaranteed that he is not the only rat, a pair can multiply into many in a short time. Here on the farm I am in constant battle with rats, mice and chipmunks 365 days out of the year, animal feed draws them in like a magnet so it is never ending. I use every tool there is to control them and keep numbers very low, traps, water bucket traps, poison, guns and dogs. Al

Mus have been scarce, so I put some bird seed in strategic locations to draw them in. It didn't take long before a mus was in the crosshairs. SJC

I have my camera under the deck never see him at night , always in the day and always just one i caught him in a rat trap today and thought I had him caught him right around the neck ! bastard pulled out !!! wonder if he will die ?? or will he come back

In my shirt sleeves. Settled on a tree limb. Now in a new hive body on new beeswax. Nice gentle Italian swarm.

With some affordable 1280 resolution thermal scopes becoming available I decided to liquidate some optics and purchase one if the price was right. Got a NocPix Ace S60R a few weeks ago and mounted it on the Barra .177 PCP rifle to get acquainted with it hunting mus around the abode. Holy freaking awesome Batman. SJC

He would feed Wolc's clan by himself. Al

I finally got the clock on the stove set .

Biggest I've laid eyes on was my neighbors daughter 219 lbs dressed deer. 330 plus pounds is enormous.

That’s pretty interesting. I’m glad it includes the chest girth. 47” is huge. The largest that I ever measured (since G-man first introduced the importance of that measurement here maybe 10 years ago), was 43-1/2”: Our youngest daughter named this busted up 3.5 yr old 6 pointer taco. He certainly made lots of them. I’m guessing a bit over 200 lbs field dressed.

Happy Birthday Tim!