He honed his eye by shooting rats in the alley behind his home.
"Can you really shoot rats with one of these?"
I could hike up to the levee and shoot rats, but that would be noisy and one probably needed a rat-shooting permit.
They were not allowed to shoot rats; there was no ammunition to spare for it.
A tentmate begins shooting imaginary rats in a foxhole.
He had gone to the trouble every day or two to go out and shoot rats for it.
After music, his favorite hobby is shooting rats at garbage dumps.
"Are you going to shoot rats for our supper?"
Another was guys shooting rats.
I got some dough put aside, but I'm sick of going over the dump every day, shooting rats.