Brits shooting rats with jerry-rigged night vision setups

[echoagain]

I stumbled across this video of some UK guys shooting rats with air rifles and 'night vision' setups using cobbled components. Pretty cool.....


Budget night vision ratting - YouTube

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Now THAT looks fun.

 

[96firephoenix]

that air rifle puts them down pretty nicely.

 

[Who Dares Wins]

I hate rats. That does look good!

 

[ljk]

Looks like an Air Arms S410S510 side lever PCP. very nice guns.

Air Arms S500 Xtra FAC Sidelever PCP Air Rifle. Air rifles

little fun fact: in the UK, air guns which produce over 12ftlb of muzzle energy are considered firearms, people have to get a license for owning them.

 

[JettaKnight]

Cool stuff, but the phase is "jury rigged".

 

[echoagain]

Cool stuff, but the phase is "jury rigged".

Thank you, but the word is "phRase".

 

[jblomenberg16]

jr

Cool stuff, but the phase is "jury rigged".

Not to debate, but both are common. I think Jury Rigged goes back farther and is more of a "Make it work well enough out of what we have until we can fix it right" in reference to fixing things on boats, where as Jerry Rigged is more of a description of shoddy or poor construction. There is probably also some "slang" in there if you will in reference so some old adversaries in the world wars. Just as there are other slang ways to say Jury Rigged.

At any rate, pretty cool video and thanks for posting!

 

[jblomenberg16]

Anyone ever tried this...wonder what the effective range of the night vision is. Thinking of something similar for a local pest problem.

 

[Bennettjh]

That's neat. Their setup dispatched those rats very well.

 

[Mgderf]

Cool stuff, but the phase is "jury rigged".

"Where there's a will, there's a way."

"Necessity is the mother of invention."
- authors unknown

"If you don't have what you need, use what you have."
-my dad

 

[xM3RC1L3SS1x]

jr

Not to debate, but both are common. I think Jury Rigged goes back farther and is more of a "Make it work well enough out of what we have until we can fix it right" in reference to fixing things on boats, where as Jerry Rigged is more of a description of shoddy or poor construction. There is probably also some "slang" in there if you will in reference so some old adversaries in the world wars. Just as there are other slang ways to say Jury Rigged.

At any rate, pretty cool video and thanks for posting!

Glad you said it all. I was curious as to how I should approach it. I have said it both ways myself.

 

[mrjarrell]

Either jerry rigged or jury rigged are OK.

phrases - "jury-rigged", or "jerry-rigged" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Looks like an Air Arms S410S510 side lever PCP. very nice guns.

Air Arms S500 Xtra FAC Sidelever PCP Air Rifle. Air rifles

little fun fact: in the UK, air guns which produce over 12ftlb of muzzle energy are considered firearms, people have to get a license for owning them.

Looks like fun, but I can't see dropping a grand on an air rifle, unless I lived where I couldn't get a real rifle.

 

[tackshot]

now that's pretty creative

 

[draftyranger]

Looks like fun! It reminds me of when I was younger, going out in the barn at night with my red rider BB gun and my mini mag light, shooting sleeping sparrows up in the rafters. Fond memories!

 

[JettaKnight]

Either jerry rigged or jury rigged are OK.

phrases - "jury-rigged", or "jerry-rigged" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

M-W is the whore of dictionaries and will open up it's pages and accept anything thrust inside it. I refuse to use it as a guide for what's acceptable.

Jury Rigged or Jerry Built: choose one.


(I'm practicing for the day when I can retire and be a full time curmudgeon)

 

[HoughMade]

Either jerry rigged or jury rigged are OK.

phrases - "jury-rigged", or "jerry-rigged" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

Certain less enlightened of my kin have been known to use another "______ rig" for the same meaning....of course the phrases "_____ pile" and a reference to a Brazil nut as a "_____ toe" were in the mix too. They don't use those phrases anymore....which is a good thing.

 

[jblomenberg16]

Certain less enlightened of my kin have been known to use another "______ rig" for the same meaning....of course the phrases "_____ pile" and a reference to a Brazil nut as a "_____ toe" were in the mix too. They don't use those phrases anymore....which is a good thing.

Betting they have another term for a geode too...