alan.holmes wrote:
And if you can't hit a rat in the head with an airgun pellet at
point-blank-range, you shouldn't be in charge of the thing.

Unfortunately tree rats do not stand still, they RAPIDLY run from one
end of the trap to the other, you'd be very lucky to hit one to kill
it in just one shot.

Which is what Rusty meant! My better half can shoot the head off a
squirrel/rabbit/whatever at a distance and cleanly. They don't sit quietly
and wait for it.