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RE: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2010, 09:46:30 AM »
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Furseeker - 2/26/2010  10:39 PM

Nice shot Harry. Now for an encore I want to see you get a double on crows. Wait, better not do that. After your bad luck that the dead starlings laid on you, two dead crow bad mojo maybe more then you want to deal with.


Yeah!  We want to see that the other one wasn't a fluke! :D  

Great shooting my friend!  I just wish I could get within a mile of them before the bolt.  I think they know me by sight!

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Re: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2010, 09:57:53 AM »
Those old folklore stories can only come true if you believe in them I always said.  

If you don't believe in any of that stuff, you 're good to go :)  
In my grandparents village up in a remote mountain area, they said that if a raven or crow visited you for more than 3 days, someone was going to die in your house.  I don't believe in that stuff.  Crows visit me every day like the visit the neighbor's tree across the street (more him than me now).  They also said if you shoot one you will die or someone you know or something like that.  There is a guy on the TAG that shoots hundreds of them every year, year after year, and I shot 8 or 9 last year and about 4 the year before.  If you believe all that stuff, yeah eventually some of it may come true or you can relate it to someone else's misfortune and believe the old stories are indeed true.  It's just a game of odds.  That's how "mediums" or fortune tellers can read your future.  They usually have a 50-50 change of guessing most of the things about you.

Not that I don't appreciate the good ZEN you have sent over to me in the past :)  Don't confuse the crows with that, hehe :)

Come to think of it, you don't shoot Grackles either.  Is it because they look like smaller crows? hehehe  8)
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Re: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2010, 10:41:18 AM »
LOL haven't seen any Grackles since last summer bro and I think the last one I took was with the 2240. The Grackles and Cowbirds got wise to my sniping from the deck hehe. As far as the Yellow beak's they just don't land in my place and I haven't even seen one anywhere including the State Land. :0 Ed
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Re: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2010, 01:42:25 PM »
I've seen lots of Starlings all of the sudden.  I'm figuring they have gotten tired of being shot by you Yahoos!  However, they are a front yard bird, meaning they only seem to land in front yards.  Not sure I could sneak a shot at them or not, but then again I DO have a really quiet Whisper :)
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Re: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #19 on: February 27, 2010, 01:45:13 PM »
Randy if you think you can, then you can. I do it from time to time, meaning when the wife isn't home. That's wat the Power Line twins are for. Today the starlings only wanted to use the front yard feeders.

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Re: Finally - 1st crow of the season, but not a "normal" crow..
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2010, 01:40:57 AM »
During the Spring & summer I will take an occasional shot at a Starling or Grackle through the front door when they are hanging out in the front lawn.  I look around at first to make sure none of the neighbors are outside.   Just don't shoot a bird near the road because the pellet could recochet off the pavement.  I make sure they are well in from the road.  My neighbor's can't hear the Condor .22 :)

BTW, the Grackles do spend a lot of time walking around in my backyard unlike the Starlings so they are fair game during the warmer months.  They are just little crows that bully all the song birds and congregate in large flocks.
Springers:
Diana 36 .177
Diana 350 .22 (donated by Timmy!)
Diana 350 .177
PCP\'s:
Air Force Condor .22 (Airhog)
Air Force Condor .25 (Talon Tunes)
Air Force Condor .25 (Lemak)  
CO2/Pump:
RWS Hammerli 850 .22
Crosman 2240 Custom .22
A few Crosman pumpers .177