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"do a lot of pestcontrol on rats and groundsqirrel lately"
In 2010, I worked on an RV park in Colorado that was overrun with "picket pin" gophers. Although the owners knew they had a serious problem and the threat of bubonic plague and hanta virus, they refused to allow firearms in the control of the little pests. I was restricted to a pellet rifle only between first light and 7 AM(when the citified campers started getting up). Headshots worked OK if the range was short but then I had to gather up the croakers and pack them to the burn pit. Body shots with the .177 pellets allowed the critters to escape down their holes and die underground. After around 200 probable kills, I could no longer get within sure hit range and gave up until the young ones started coming above ground and then the score really went up.
If I'd been using my 17 HMR, I would have had to scrape up the bits and rake over the bloody sand on every kill and I'm sure the campers would have been "disturbed" but I could have "cleared" the 10 acres within a couple of days.
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