Recent content by miguel1

It is good but I find I have it on 15 power 95% of the time. The option to turn down the power is nice and better for my 12 year old kiddo but I have a 16x SWFA Mil-Quad that is a little sharper and much less expensive.

140 yards. Starling. FX Streamline. 15.89 JSB 900 fps. SWFA 3x15 FFP. I spent about half an hour trying to shoot a starling coming to a nest at 20 yards. He came in and saw me as they are prone to do and landed on a fence post 140 yards away. No wind. I knew the bottom of my reticle should...

We ate some this summer a few times. If you eat dove then starling is not much of a reach in size or taste. My 10 year old loves them. I have no problem eating them myself. I had a good friend from Italy. He told me they eat everything there from minnows to tweety birds.


I can get into them all year where I live in Montana. In the winter I go to a cattle feedlot where they snuggle up to the cows to stay warm and eat the feed. I usually get 20-50 on a outing there. In the spring it is great fun to go hide around large nesting trees. In a good outing, I might...

I have had them land right in my decoys a lot. Usually they land on the perimeter though. They are normally on high alert and you have to shoot quick maybe because of the lack of movement. If they start feeding I can usually get more than one out of a encounter.

I have done well with starling decoys set on the ground in areas where they are feeding like cut hay fields or lawns. I have had my best luck combining elevated decoys (on a fence or hay bail) with some on the ground in feeding positions. I have shot starlings a few of times that got stuck up...

I have been close to pulling the trigger on a call also. Foxpro does offer some starling mp3s to put on it but they are all starling in distress type sounds. I think it would attract them but in my experience when I have wounded them they mostly just hover and are on high alert. Foxpro told...

That brings back some memories! I am 50 and started out in grade school with a Daisy Red Rider and was a menace to the neighborhood. In Jr High I got a Daisy 880 and was even more dangerous. In high school I bought a RWS 48 with my paper route money (still have the gun) and that was a new...

I am having a good time with mine too. I can travel about 8 minutes to a bunch of public land on the edge of town and hunt starlings. I either hide by some trees they like or set up some decoys where they are feeding. I got my streamline .22 in February and have shot 922 starlings. I don't...

I have no experience with the Royale but I own a Streamline .22. I got the synthetic stock thinking it would be the tougher option for hunting. I broke my stock where your thumb would rap around the pistol grip shortly after purchase. The inside of the stock is made out of a type of foam that...

No problem Alpontigo. I don't know anybody that shoots air rifles where I live in Montana and it is fun to share! I have had a RWS 54 for 1 1/2 years and have shot that a lot. I have shot probably over 8000 pellets through it and whole lot of bad birds. It weighs about 12 lbs though! This...

I have about 8 mm between the 42 mm objective and the barrel and it sits about 1.75" above the bore Here is a pic of an improvement to the safety. My kid had a bionicle lego part that fit perfectly over the safety lever. Hope he doesn't see it! Much better thumb access. I already had one...

Thanks BayStYat. I think your way of posting pics is better than mine!

I have about 2 mm of clearance

I just put a 16x SWFA on my FX Streamline 22 with some medium Accushot 30mm rings (#RGPM-30M4) and it seems about perfect. I am 1.75" above the breech. It seems like the Hawke scope would work OK also although there is more hanging below the tube diameter than the SWFA. It looks like you can...