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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : airiscool February 26, 2010, 10:14:27 AM
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Spent a good bit of the morning fighting 24 inches of wet snow with the snow blower only to give up and start shoveling, then take a break.
At least I got a shooting a trench out to the feeder ... and a path out to the street in case that big brown truck shows up !!!! Put out seed and cat food and hoped I hadn't over done it with the shoveling and wresling with a 300+ lb snow blower !!!
Sure enough the starlings showed up.
Nailed the first one with a Jumbo heavy right where it stood.Just as a test left it there for 30 minutes but the others wouldn't come near the place. Put it out back under trees my Crows hang out in and sure enough, it was gone within about 30 minutes.
Nailed a second Starling, but it got up and flew off even though I could see blood droplets on the snow behind where it had been standing. Oh well.
Hour later the mob is back. I cross hair one, squeeze sending another Jumbo heavy on it's way and down it goes. Then through the scope I realize there's two birds down out there. Nailed a Sparrow that I didn't see was behind the Starling. My first two-fer.
By now the Starling mob is realy twitchy. While I'm waiting to see if they'll come back in I catch movement off to my right.
Two days left in the Squirrel season and here comes the one I've been waiting for.
A Gray that's been sneaking into a hole in the barn box soffits where I haven't gotten the facia board on yet, is climbing up the rough-cut siding, goes into the hole, turns around and lays down with his head out the hole.
The propped open storm door is in my way so I opt to shoot through the door's hinge gap. It's about 30 yards out, and I re-sighted to 22 this morning knowing I'd only be going after Starlings. I put the cross hairs on the top of it's head and squeeze ....
THWACK !
It Swan-dives out the hole, head first into two feet of snow. All I can see through the scope is the tip of it's tail quiver a few seconds then disapear into the snow.
My first two-fer, Gray number 21 for the season, and of all the Grays here, it's the barn trasher I was hoping to get before the season closed. A good ending to good day !!!!!!
And don't worry Harry, this wasn't one of your two Grays ! :D
The first pic is the "shooting trench" out the the feeder.
Second pic is the first Starling dead at the base of the feeder pole.
Third pic is Starling number three and the Sparrow that was standing behind it. Both through and throughs.
Fourth pic is the hole in the snow with a dead Gray down at the bottom.
Fifth is the Gray with a hole through it's head from the Jumbo heavy.
Sixth pic is a "muzzle view" through the door hinge gap out to the barn. You can just make out the hole in the boxed soffit right at the roof line, above the right side of the door opening.
Paul.
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Great shooting and pic's Paul and sometimes you have to dig in to fight em on their turf or snow hehe. Ed
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good day, dont you mean great day
nice shooting
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Great day Paul! Nice shooting! Nice 2 fer! got 20" here had to settle for sparrows 2 for 2 LOL
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Thanks guys.
Your right, it was a "great" day. Even with sore muscles reaching for the bottle of aspirin again, I find myself still grinin' !!!
Paul.
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You had an awesome day Paul!! 3 different species in 1 day would make day :)
Nice shooting! and that a good size squirrel.
I got 2.5ft of snow and lost power around 11pm last night. I 've been shoveling all day and fighting to get out but the town plow never came a 2nd time, plus we have live wires still outside my house that came down from the transformer across the street when branches started coming. Not only that my water heater just went a couple of hours ago and dumped at least 1/2 of its 60gals on the floor that went through the family room and the hallway downstairs. On top of that I have 3 huge branches down the size of trees. 2 from the Wheeping Willow and 1 from the oak tree, plus a few other smaller ones but still good size. It's been a disaster so far but luckily the power came back on about an hour ago as I was calling hotels in the area which were all booked. Now I still can't take a hot shower with the water heater broken and none of the plumbers are answering the phone!
I think I got jinxed when I shot something this morning.. maybe a bad omen :)
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Paul sound like you did have great day. I just hope you don't suffer some of the same bad luck Harry did after he pulled of his double. I forget what part of the country you guys are in, but out here in Utah were in for near 50 degree temps Saturday. I hope to get out and break in the new B25.
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good shooting! snow makes a good backstop lol
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Nice pics and write up just make sure the critters don't use mustard gas.....
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Your closer to truth than you know Wingman. These Starlings are trying to stink out whoever gets near them !!!!
The ones here must be also feeding out in the farm fields. Snow cover had been light this Winter so the farmers have been out with the manure spreaders. Everyone of the Starlings I've brought in to see where they were hit must have been picking hay seeds the Cows don't digest. They all reek of manure !!!
Paul.
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LOL, that is just wrong in some way :D Loving it!
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These birds are crapping on you even when their dead those are some bad dudes....