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Offline Furseeker

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Day off
« on: March 05, 2010, 02:59:51 AM »
The day is starting off very promising, weather excluded. Because the last few days were nice and sunny and very warm, I decided to take Friday off to do some shooting. We’ll as luck would have it I woke up to a few inches of snow on the ground and it’s still falling.

But I would like to humbly say that I’ve started the day of 2 for 2. One regular Starling, (not the pellet proof kind) as he fell at the shot, flapped his wings one or twice and didn’t move after that. Then I tried to pull of a double on sparrows as they were feeding on the ground under the eves of my shed. I had 3 of them perfectly lined up but the shot went high and I took out the middle bird. The one standing directly behind him just stood there for a minute and I thought I may have done it, but he did fly off. Both birds shot at 29 yards with the Summit firmly rested on the back of the wife’s dining room chair. I can only do that when she’s not home. She saw me do that once and told me if I so much as scratched here chair with my gun she would buy a new chair, I tried the old reverse sociology and said if her chair scratched my gun I was going to buy a new one. Don’t try that with your wives guys, it wasn’t good. That stuff doesn't always work like you think it should.

 I’ll post up some pics as soon as I put on enough clothes to go and retrieve my 2 kills.

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Re: Day off
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2010, 04:35:54 AM »
Ok here are the photos of the Starling I got this morning. Just a few minutes ago I looked out and they were back at it on the feeders so I had a chance at # 2 for the day. The first thing I noticed was the fact that his beak had a lot more yellow than a few of the birds I’ve recently been shooting. As I lined up for the shot I thought he had something in his mouth because he looked kind of funny. But I but the cross hairs on center mass and slowly pulled the trigger. He too was a non pellet proof Starling and folded at the shot, he hit the ground, opened up his wings and then slowly closed them again. The Summit seems to be doing a great job today, it’s shooting the .177 CPHPs at a respectable 880fps. And it’s accurate as can be.

Take a look at the growths he had around his eyes, I’ve seen this on a lot of House Finches before, but never on a Starling. It amazes me that this guy could see at all. I feel like I did my civic duty by taking him out of the breeding population. I forgot to grab the sparrow but he is still out there next to the shed.

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Re: Day off
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2010, 07:07:25 AM »
Nice shooting and pix! Funny about your wife!
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Re: Day off
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2010, 08:56:22 AM »
good work i got a few of the spotless ones today in my trees

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RE: Day off
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2010, 09:47:35 AM »
good shooting! cant wait to see pics
if at first you dont succeed, re-load, kill count 2010.
(6)squirrel
()opposum
()skunk
()chipmunks
()squirrel
()raccoon
(1)starling
()grackle
()sparrows