Shooting rats at night with a .22 air rifle

[yanperry@sky.com]

Hi everyone,
Myself and my neighbour have some good sport shooting rats outside my hen house. I have converted a small window in an adjacent building to enable us to sit in the warmth whilst waiting for the rats to appear.
We have a red filtered outside light on but cant get a good focus and are missing the little blighters!
Could anyone advise the best / reasonably inexpensive way to light an area around 3-6 mts from the building.
Thanks in advance
Ian

[wall90]

hi ian, you could try mounting a red torch on your rifle with a figure 8 clamp, something like a t20 which you can adjust from spot to flood.

[some bloke]

Welcome to the forum Ian.

If you can see the rats are out of focus you likely have enough light.

If its a real cheap scope maybe adjust the objective lens position after removing the bezel - or replace the scope with one that focuses much closer than the one you have now.

[andy66]

A 20w-30w LED floodlight will do the trick at lighting up the area.

[bozz]

Hi the area that you are trying to shoot the rats can you see it clearly in the day or is it still out of focus. As some block says it might be down to the scope minimum focus, a lot of scopes have a 50m minimum focus point. All the best Graham.