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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : neric April 15, 2010, 11:38:11 AM
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Crows,,,pretty hard to shoot. Acute angles of more than 60 degrees up I haven't zero'd in yet. Kind of tough to hoist a paper target 35 yards in the air.
Nesting owls in my backyard,,,, crows come in large groups and dive bomb the parents and babies. They usually leave when they see me coming but this time they had a pretty crowd and actually got the owls to move off their perch. I got a shot almost straight up from me,,I heard the 'thop' sound and he came down. One time before when I shot one they all left quickly but this time they stayed and hassled some more. I got another good shot, heard the 'thop' but it wasn't good enough, he flew off immediately while the others stayed and fought. They still didn't leave after two of their comrads took a hit.
The gun is a Roald max tuned Hammerli 850, .22 JSB. My favorite.
I used to shoot squirrles untill the owls have matured enough to hunt all the baby squirrels and now I haven't seen a single squirrel for weeks now,,,very unusual from what has been - over run with squirrels. I didn't scare them one bit. Didn't matter how many I shot they just kept on coming back. But the owls have really put the fear into them.
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Nice shooting with the 850!
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WTG.....Great shot on a tough bird. People that have never shot a RWS 850.... don't know what they're missing.
Eric
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Very good work i also love the looks and ablity of the 850 to take vermin
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Nice shooting!!! Shooting at such an extreme angle is difficult.
The 850 is a great gun once the velocity is pumped up and some trigger work done. Roald is a great guy to discuss/work with.
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Great shooting and pic Eric and the shooter does look tough next to it's harvest with the same color coat. :o :) Ed
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Nice shooting Eric.
Yeah, steep angles goof up alot of shots. Trajectory becomes less of a factor as the angle changes from horizontal to vertical and alot of shooters shoot over their target thinking they still have to compensate as much for drop.
Paul.
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It's always a pleasure to see one more down,it seems a good size,isn't it?
Keepblasting them!
Emi.
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Nice shooting at the 2 Crows with your Hammerli 850.....too bad the other one flew off.