flying rat season just around the corner

[kyote]

now that we have them as a varmint..we can talk about em here.
any one going to get after them this season??my son and I are..have some good recipes for them.as long as I do not use any of the AI's when the land at the H2O holes,I will have breast to grill..

[Graybeard]

What in the world are you talking about? Give us a clue, drop a wee small hint how about it?

[kyote]

graybeard
               most the folks i hang around with call doves and pigeons "flying rats" and dove season starts for us here in the SW in sept.The pigeon fly in to the water holes and I have a hill that I go to and and can face my truck towards the water hole(lased 400 yards to the edge of the water).I go allmost every evening and start with my least powerfull .22 centerfire as the flying rats land,I put the cross hairs on em and make puffs of feathers,I only stay about an hour and the next evening I take a more powerfull .22 center fire.by the time I get to my .220swiftAI shooting 40gr bullets at warp speed.the shots are spectacular.and then the flying rat doves.we shoot em with shotguns on the wing and enjoy Bar B Qed breast allmost every other evening on the grill.my kids will be slurpin down large quanities of Mug rootbeer while my wife and dad enjoy Vino and me well, I will be enjoyin one of GP911's famous 4 cuber martini.It's allmost as fun as quishin puppys with yer bare feet.

[beemanbeme]

"flying rats" ? I'm almost 70 and I've hunted doves all over the SE and never heard them referred to as that.  I guess I've lived a sheltered life.
Some kewl folks call squirrels "tree rats". I don't think I wanna call anything I'm gonna eat a "rat", although I've eaten rat in asia.   

[Graybeard]

Well that's sure enough the first time I ever heard them called that. Must be a local thing up your way.

[onecoyote]

I forgot how many years I've been hunting doves. I've hunted them in mainland Mexico, Baja, California, Arizona and New Mexico. I was born and raised in the southwest and never heard a dove called a flying rat? lol.
Kyote, if I didn't know you, I'd say you've been drinking some real powerful stuff lol. To be honest, you can call them what you want that's cool.  I was like the other guys, I didn't have a clue what you were talking about lol.
You guys go get em Sept. 1st. We have lots of them around here, some are white wings.

[Chuck White]

I just wish you guys the best of luck hunting them!

I'd like to see one once in a while here in NY!  Instead they are pests!  They stay here year-round!
When they get too thick, we take to shooting them with 22 centerfires!
I've shot them out of my bird feeders!  The feeders were put up for the little birds like chickadees, grossbeaks, etc!

[kyote]

I can't believe you guys have not heard em called flyin rats.yea I call the squirrels in my yard tree rats also.and my kids rug rats..he he he.

[kyote]

http://www.chicagosnapshot.com/cs/archives/2004/11/flying_rats.php


you guys are on the dang puter to much.he he he..and live a waaaaaay to shelterd life.just type flying rats in to google and baaaam!every one knows what a flyin rat is.If I remember right, there where articels in predator extreme mag on them.shooting urban ones with air guns.and I believe varmint hunter had an article also..
and yes..I can not stand them at the bird feeders they just sit there and eat and crap till it is all gone(the bird food)and the cool little birds don't stand a chance.I have a feeder in the back yard.and three high end pellet rifles and two cheap ones.I believe it is exactlly 33' from the table I shoot off of in sept. when I am not making it to the fields.

[jamaldog87]

i called rock dove/pigeons  flying rat but i have never hear good dove called flying rats. I call pigeons flying rats because they are a pest here and i kill some with my airgun and most look like they were in a old spill. I eat dove but pigeons are something not ever coons or sharks will eat(i tryed useing a dead pigeon and then a alive one for shark bait and they would hit it with there nose but not eat it and let some out for the coons and the bugs ate it)