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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : longislandhunter August 13, 2006, 01:13:51 PM
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After lunch grabbed the .177 Shadow, an assortment of pellets, and headed for the duck farm. Arrived to find my favorite tree filled with birds and being used as a roost/lookout post so I set up my hay bale blind just inside the barn door and loaded up. On this trip I brought a selection of pellets, crow magnums, CPHP's, copperhead pointed, Gamo rockets and RWS superdomes to try for the first time in my S1k. The superdomes have been working so well in my CFX I thought I'd try them in the Shadow. I did well with all the pellets but after downing some birds and suffering some misses, I decided to give the superdomes a try. Long story short,,, my S1k absolutely loves the superdomes. My accuracy increased tremendously and I was taking bird after bird no problem. After switching to the superdomes I only missed a couple of birds and on each of those misses I knew I jerked the trigger so it was my fault. The superdomes were also whacking the heck out of the birds and each bird shot just fell stone cold dead every time. I was really impressed with the superdomes performance. After 2 hours the final tally was 25 deceased starlings. The photo shows 19 birds cause I took the pic before I killed my last 6 birds. The pellet that seemed to do the most tissue damage was the Gamo Rockets (with the steel pellet in the tip). I took the 4 birds that I hit with the rockets and skinned out the breasts and photo'd the tissue damage. Those pellets did alot of damage as you can see. They should work well for me this coming squirrel season. Anway, took some pics of my blind, the tree 20 yards form the blind, and a general pic of one of the duck pens showing the feeders that attract the birds. The pics of the tree are fuzzy, but all those black spots in the branches are starlings.
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man that is so cool ,if I had a place like that I would never come home.KEEP ON SHOOTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nice i bought some today too,havnt tried them yet though...
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Hell thats a lot of Starlings lol sur they aint breeding them as well lol