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« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2010, 09:16:48 am »

     That is what I want!  8)  But I can't afford one. :( :'(  Maybe I shouldn't have based my retirement on the Powerball, and the Lottery....... ::)

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« Reply #46 on: March 04, 2010, 03:45:06 pm »
Yeah, those German rifles are supposed to be top noch  ;)
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« Reply #47 on: March 05, 2010, 10:52:31 am »
wow. seems like everyone likes the .22s. i love my .177, killed tons of squirels, robins (yea yea i know. dont shoot them anymore though) dove, ect. works for me. good for 30 or 40 yards. all this talk has me wanting to get that gasket fixed and start poppin critters with it again. ;D

and that .22 benjamin that the step brother had is now my dads. he carrys it around in his truck. he's told me storys about walkin out of a bar to talk on the phone, seeing a rabit back behind it, grabbin the air rifle and getting supper.  ;D ;D
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« Reply #48 on: March 05, 2010, 03:25:51 pm »
I think they both do the business on that size critter.

some pest control with the .22 yesterday





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Re: Discovering a hunting underworld/subculture
« Reply #49 on: March 05, 2010, 04:43:41 pm »
do you eat these Birds??
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« Reply #50 on: March 05, 2010, 05:15:58 pm »
     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.


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Re: Discovering a hunting underworld/subculture
« Reply #51 on: March 05, 2010, 05:31:35 pm »
 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.
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« Reply #52 on: March 05, 2010, 05:53:18 pm »
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....... >:(
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« Reply #53 on: March 05, 2010, 06:14:33 pm »
That "pest" bird looks like some type of white wing starling to me.
Most likely a import species.

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« Reply #54 on: March 05, 2010, 06:55:28 pm »
 Mike, Why would you shoot your sister in the Butt? That's funny, glad neither butt belonged to me. :o
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« Reply #55 on: March 05, 2010, 07:23:12 pm »
         Eddie...are so old that You can't remember the things that used to run through the Mind of a 12 year old Male........ ;D

                                                                          Nuff Said.......... >:D
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« Reply #56 on: March 05, 2010, 08:45:26 pm »
  I don't think I was ever like that. ::) ::) ;D
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« Reply #57 on: March 05, 2010, 11:59:47 pm »
                                                              I was a Deviant...... ;D

                                                  But I have been rehabilitated........... O:)
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« Reply #58 on: March 06, 2010, 05:26:47 am »
That's a Mynah, or Indian Mynah, along with mongoose classified as pest here, so I do some pest control in between putting the doves and chickens in the freezer,......no I dont eat them  :)
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« Reply #59 on: March 06, 2010, 05:12:40 pm »
  I didn't even recognize it from the picture, Manny. When I was growing up you used to see a lot of them in Florida. They were a non-native pest then, too. A couple of good freezes took care of them here. ;D
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