A long time ago in a galaxy far away ....

Well, at least a little over 60 years ago in Reno County Kansas which amounts to about the same ...:

The 4H and FFA clubs that a farmboy cousin was in offered a bounty of about a penny a tail. On a visit to his farm, we organized a safari of three and treked deep into the wilds down by the grain bin and earned him about $2.80 in a couple of hours with a pair of BB guns.

Of course that was when a BB gun was a BB GUN, and it was only a couple of years later that Daisy decided to limit them to a "safer level" that made the later ones pretty much useless for anything bigger than a fly or sometimes (not consistently) a cockroach. The later ones wouldn't ruffle the fur on a mouse, let alone be even an annoyance to a barnyard rat.

John