I saw a couple of rats about that size in Korea forty years ago.

How long do the tail and incisors need to be to make B&C?

My brothers currently in afghanistan, and when he's on post at night, he's seen rats running around as big as cats. Id take a .410 or a 20 guage if I was out for numbers. For challenge, a .22

That's a new one, rats shooting rats

If you don't count muskrats, I've never seen a rat that was quite as big as a cat... but we used to shoot some pretty big ones in the grain bins and feed barns when I was a kid. Most shooting then was done with .22lr, and I annoyed a bunch of them with my Red Ryder, but I sure wish we'd had .17hmr back then. That would have been perfect for the "smart ones" who lived in the irrigation ditches and would only pop out 100 yards from the shooters.

.22lr and a good scope. would probably be a good idea to take some of that .22 birdshot for close up.

I would use a 243. but I beg to ask the question: where did the radioactive stuff come from?What's so radioactive?

Holy rat mutation Batman!

My first day in Seoul I was being shown around by my new patrol partner and we were tooling around up at the trap range when a big rat walked out on the road and looked at us. I jumped out of the jeep (actually M1-51), drew a bead on him with my .45 and blew it in half. I can still hear my partner screaming at me. I forgot those rounds had to be accounted for. Luckily someone had stashed a couple extras and Charles got me out of that pinch. I reciprocated a few weeks later when a drunk came alive on him at the bus station. No, I didn't shoot the guy, but by the time the swelling finally went down in his left knee he was wishing I had. However, I had to get another night stick. Those oak ones had a tendency to snap under pressure. The plastic ones were too lethal and Army wouldn't let us use them except in riot situations.