Tried the Crosman Powermaster on a Starling this morning. There were only a couple feeding with two Doves. The Doves seem to make the Starlings less twitchy. As one turned toward me I got a right quartering breast shot. All I could see was that the BB leaving at 620fps just scared the bird 22 yards away. Didn't even flinch - just flew off.
I put the Whisper back next to the door.
A few minutes ago I looked out and there was a Starling sitting in the bush to the right of the feeder. It was facing right toward me, but I figured if I moved slow enough....
I slowly opened the kitchen door and slid the Whisper out. I grabbed the door edge with my left hand and rested the Whisper on the back of my hand. At 9 power I could clearly see the Starling though a small gap in the branches. I put the cross hairs on the center of it's beast as I'd done with the one yesterday that rolled and flew off, and squeezed. It spun over backwards bouncing off branches as it fell straight down. It hit the ground and didn't move.
Knowing better now, I quickly reloaded and put the scope back on it just in case it decided to come back from the dead !!!
After a minutes watching it hadn't moved so much as one feather. I waited a few more minutes to see if any others were coming, but none around, so I went out with camera to retreive it.
First two pictures are the Starling where it landed under the bush.
Third pic, the pencil is pointing to the entrance wound - dead center, no exit.
The Starling I breast shot and rolled yesterday was right below and slightly behind where this one was - shot was roughly the same distance. Yesterday, the 15.8 gr Jumbo rolled it and while visable having trouble flying, it was still able to fly off.
Today, the Whisper is back to shooting the 13.4 gr Jumbo RS. And it's dialed back in for 30 yards incase Red Squirrels show up out by the stone wall. At roughly 22 yards to where the Starling was in the bush, it hit about 1/2 higher than where I had the cross hairs.
The first Starling I shot last weekend drppped in it's tracks with this same 13.4 gr Jumbo RS.
After seeing so many hit and fly off, it's nice not to feel like I want to rip out what little hair I have left ...especially when it's this cold !!!!Think I'll stick with this set up.
Paul.
