Kill eight was quite different. It ran across the top of the pegboard just like Rigor (above). Then It disappeared behind the pegboard. I waited for about five minutes. Complete silence. I knew there was no way out from behind that pegboard without me seeing it. So I stepped down off of the ladder to inspect each and every individual hole in that wood. After looking for about three minutes, my eye caught a bit of grey fur behind a few holes at the bottom. I judged where the vital organs may be and lined up the barrel of the rifle right over the hole in the board. With a surgeon's precision, I gently pressed the tip of the gun against the board with the fear that it might scare the rat hiding behind it in vain. Then, when I felt it was perfectly lined up, I pulled the trigger. The rat leapt out of the side of the pegboard. Thinking I had missed, I slammed open the rifle and scrambled to find another pellet, keeping the rat in my peripheral. As soon as I had a pellet ready for loading, I realized that my victim had barely struggled about three feet when it fell on it's side and expired shortly thereafter. Judging where the blood is, I figure I hit a lung or heart.
The pegboard in the garage and the hole I fired into.
This is where he ended up after his short attempt to escape.
There's a pellet in this guy. That's probably why he's bleeding.