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Discovering a hunting underworld/subculture
stickbender:
Nomad, what kinda bird is that? Kinda looks like a cross between a Minah, and a blue Jay...... ;D Yeah, the .177 is a good pellet rifle, but I just like the .22 better, it has more oomph, when it is needed. A friend of mine had an RWS in .177 and it would almost go through a piece of 1/8 " thick aluminum angle bar. But when he put the pellet in and then put a squirt of lighter fluid in behind it, and fired it, the lighter fluid ignited like a diesel, and it would just punch a clean round hole through it. I wouldn't reccommend it though, I don't know if it would shorten the life span of the gaskets. But, it really isn't going on the gasket. Might damage a seal in the chamber thought. Not sure. It would produce a blue flame at the muzzle upon firing......It was a superb little gun. But I definitely want an RWS Model 48, but like I said, I just can't afford one now. Maybe in the future...... ;) Recurve, when I was a little kid, around five or six, we had a couple of big Brazilian pepper trees, (Florida Holley ) and every Winter around Christmas time the Robins would come down, and they would just cover those trees, well we ate a whole bunch of Robins each year. My little Daisey BB gun did the job quite well. My Dad, really enjoyed it, and so did I. We would just sit under or around those trees, and load up. :) Robins eat pretty good. So do Meadowlarks. ;) Used to hunt meadowlarks with my Daisey, up till I was about 14 or so. No complaints about the noise, or my shooting around the houses, near the fields where the Meadowlarks were. Times have unfortunately changed now, and if you even look like you have a gun, the swat team is ushered out to your location. Ah, Robins, and Meadowlarks...... :) Haven't eaten any of either since I was a kid, but I do remember that they were good. Especially the Meadowlarks. ;)
By the Way, Meadowlarks occasionally get ticks. So just check them before you dump them in the bag, or put them near you.
Wayne
mullet:
Yea, Wayne, we used to get free 410 shells just to walk the Strawberry fields before picking season just slaying Robins. They were good, hard to tell between a dove. Now all the farmers can use is noise cannons.
El Destructo:
Old Man Alvedisy (old world Italian) used to pay me .50 for a Snowshoe Hare....and.25 for a Robin...and .10 for Blackbirds....He used to eat them in Pies and Stew....He paid more for the Robin's...because....they are the Michigan State Bird... ::)...man Me and my Beeman .177 Pellet Rifle made all kinds of Money....until one Day...I was looking out the Bathroom Window...and Spied my Sister Sandy sunning in the Back Yard...and I planted a Red Fuzzy Dart in Her Left Buttocks....well when the Old Man got Home form Work (Patrol Cop back then)...He took Me and the Pellet Rifle out back...beat the pellet Rifle into pieces on the Back Steps (concrete)...then reddened my Ass with the Leftover piece of Stock.....so that was the end of My Money making Spring and Summer that year....... >:(
RidgeRunner:
That "pest" bird looks like some type of white wing starling to me.
Most likely a import species.
David
mullet:
Mike, Why would you shoot your sister in the Butt? That's funny, glad neither butt belonged to me. :o
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