 You can handle these eggs, yeah Yeah, we'll go ahead and get those eggs out Don't want a rat steal nose No No, I'll never want that And then if you come out here and save those eggs from those mice, I mean rats they You might scare them away. I think I am that's what I'm going to try to do Welcome back to the channel y'all I've got a crazy video for you here today because we are going rat hunting in the backyard It's unfortunate that I even have to say that but yes our chicken coop has gotten infested with rats We live in the woods as you can see and there's field rats that are coming out of the woodworks this year for some reason They're getting up around the house and obviously having a chicken coop I've got that feed But with chicken wire in the bottom But there's still open areas where they can crawl right in there and they were getting a feast at night I recently got out the thermal binoculars just to kind of check that Check out what's going on in the backyard and I discovered a ton of rats up in the chicken coop So typically some rat traps might get the job done if you got a few Maybe some rat poison, but we have a lot of rats and it just so happens that I'm a hunter I have an ir scope I have thermals and I have an amazing pellet gun that can get the job done on these big rats So I've got my air force air rifle the condor ss That is perfect for taking out backyard squirrels or any other pests and I've used it a lot over the last couple years The only problem is I need a picatinny rail on my condor Which I don't have but it just so happens. I live close to air force air guns They're right here and around Fort Worth and burleson, Texas So i'm just going to make a trip down there and they are going to fix me up with a picatinny rail and even clean My rifle out and it turns out I had some Dirt doppers that got in there that were uh They're crusting up the inside of the barrel. So they hooked me up got me fresh All clean barrel. They they put on the irscope. We even sited in The the condor right there and we got it dialed to 20 yards So shout out to air force for getting me hooked up on these parts now. This condor is a 25 caliber Pellet gun so it is bigger than a 22. It's bigger than your typical 17 caliber that's on a regular pellet gun. This thing will absolutely pop You know, I've got raccoons possums all the typical backyard pests that you think of So on top of my air force rifle, I've got the sight mark wraith, which is an ir scope It records 4k and I've also got an upgraded ir light which is made by Sniper hog. It's a company out of texas southern texas and they make these really solid lights that Light up everything under a hundred yards and probably the coolest piece of outdoor equipment that I own that we're going to be using Is my pulsar accolade to thermal binoculars There's no escaping these you might be able to hide From the ir but you ain't hiding from the thermal so When these rats are scurrying around tonight, I'll be able to track them And I'm going to be using the wraith and the accolades in tandem to get on them and hopefully take them out Oh, yeah, you're posing What you doing in there? Looks like she's been in the coop. She's got strong shavings Did you get an ice cream sandwich? Oh my goodness, where's mine? Well, it's so big. I thought maybe you guys could split it. Do you think you could split it with dad? Sorry dad Nope, it's a hard no. That is a hard no. We're gonna take out some rats tonight We're gonna take out the rats tonight honey. I'll let you take the first shot You want to? Really? You might you might have to deal with some mosquitoes I mean I would love to Sweating out here, but I think it's actually gonna be really fun I would honestly rather take out the armadillo that's messing up my flower bed because I'm on vengeance about that Listen, that's still a possibility. Okay. We could get a two for one tonight We got a hole right here in the wall where the the rats are they're going in there They're getting the condensation off the the copper pipe And they're drinking off of it We're gonna get everything set up up charging all batteries right now um After dark, it's usually right after dark They start coming out so Let's let the fun begin All right guys, here we go Oh, they they literally they can hear me talking The sound of my voice just made them Skedaddle for their hiding under it Some of them are starting to come back Some of them are up in the trees. We got us nuts This is nuts about two inches high So if I would have had that knowledge about an hour ago We would have about four rats down But that one was literally inside of the coop and I shot through the chicken wire I think they're wising up. I don't think there's gonna be any more really come over At least we for sure pop The first night was crazy. There was rats running around everywhere. I'm getting crazy close to these rats I mean, I'm talking like 10 12 yards And I'm missing I'm like how am I missing these things? I'm so close I finally figure out that I am shooting low, which doesn't make any sense But with some experimentation, I figured out that the pellet is still rising at 10 12 yards So at 20 yards dead on but I actually have a hold over if it's around that 10 12 yard mark So once I figured that out, I was ready to go for night number two So we are on night number two But godly they're smart man. I was hearing them like chirp communicate with each other It was interesting. They're loud. I mean they're They're like little grizzly bears. We're ready to go y'all. Wraith is charged up. Binos are charged up This air tank you hardly have to replace the air in it. It lasts a long time, especially when I'm shooting on low setting So it's all good to go. The only bad news is I don't have any beer Ran out of beer and it's the weekend just started Oh, well serious operations going down. Let's get some rats So after a few nights of doing this, I got dialed and then I never had to leave my back deck I just sit out there. I had a little rest a little cushion and I just pop them from the top Well, the sun has risen And I think we have knocked down the populations Significantly, this is one of the big ones that was inside of the coop that I got Throw this guy into the woods I actually ended up getting three rats and the last night's hunt These things are smart guys and they Literally knew when I would start to come outside. So over the period of about a week I had to adjust the times that I went out So I couldn't just go out at like 10 or 11 anymore. They would like they would just be gone And whereas the first time I ever went out there, there was like eight rats out there right after dark as sneaky as they are They just can't hide from those thermals y'all. Those thermal binoculars are amazing I ended up getting a another possum over the course of the week. I ended up getting one of the armadillos There's more armadillos that are still tearing up the yard And the kernel is happy so in total I think we knocked out about 10 rats And just because this video is over doesn't mean I'm not going to get out those thermal binos every night until I don't see any more rats coming into my chicken coop. Hope you guys enjoyed watching this crazy backyard knock turtle rat hunting adventure Thank you guys for tuning in today. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel So you don't miss any of my outdoor adventures and smash that like button Or I'll have to stick colonel sanders on you tight lines and happy hunting. Oh, we'll see you on the next