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Have any of you created a zombie?

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abqjoe

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So I get this certain species of ground bird in my yard that likes to destroy my Bonsai tree's and I eliminate them on the spot. I heard a pair of them out back this morning so I went outside with my little bluetooth speaker and played a few calls and the male came in. I pointed my new FX Impact M3 22 cal Compact at him, aligned my crosshairs, squeezed the trigger, and BAM, hit him dead in the chest with a 15gr Hades! A poof of feathers the size of my fist came off of him upon impact but the little sucker didn't die. He calmly hopped to a lower branch and started singing again. So I hit him again right in the chest with the same result and man, still not dead. I repeated 2 more times with the same result before he finally went to the ground but wasn't dead. This little dude was hopping around on the ground after being hit 4 times in the chest with Hades out of my M3 as was still alive. I walked over to him, he looked me dead in the eye, I looked at him back, put the rifle right up to his head and that was that.
Have any of you dealt with a zombie pest before lol? I got his little girlfriend a couple hours later and 1 shot in the chest was all it took.
 
lol . . . I shot a pigeon yesterday as a matter of fact at one of my farm permissions. They (pigeons) can sometimes be surprisingly tough sob's . . . I hit this one square in the chest at . . . ( trying to remember ) 52'ish yards and it was more then evident that I did. It flinched hard. There was an audible "pop!" ( 20.2g nsa slug out of a 500mm .22 vulcan3 ). There were some feathers that became airborne. This guy just "took it" like a prize fighter in the ring . . . . didn't fly away (couldn't) but also didn't lie down. It just strutted along the peak of the roof for about 5 yards and then stopped and stood there. I'm watching it the whole time through my scope . . . . it started "getting drunk" and I figured that it was gonna go and I wouldn't need the follow up on it. But it didn't. It was like it got it's second wind or something and just continued to stand there and look around. I put it down with a second shot and that was that but yeah . . . . sometimes some critters can become "zombies".
 
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Sometimes, I get special help if the quarry is particularly tough and zombie-like:
If the airgunner throwing 16 grain pieces of lead can't seem to eliminate a pigeon zombie — the local falcons will swoop in and finish off what he started.... 🤣

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JungleShooter said:
Sometimes, I get special help if the quarry is particularly tough and zombie-like:
If the airgunner throwing 16 grain pieces of lead can't seem to eliminate a pigeon zombies — the local falcons will swoop in and finish off what he started.... 🤣

Matthias
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That’s the problem with lead / it moves up the food chain killing beneficial critters
 
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cavedweller said:
That’s the problem with lead / it moves up the food chain killing beneficial critters
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One really good argument for pellets that will pass through the game, if you intend to not pick it up...

At one point this came up with the cane toads - fortunately, not much will eat them, as they're toxic as hell, especially once blended up a bit by a .30. But even if so, the pellets are passing entirely through, and that makes me feel better about the risks of that happening.

I only want to be responsible for the fast acting acute version of death by lead poisoning, not slow acting chronic deathy by lead poisoning.
 
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Oh I definitely hit this guy. Only 20 yards away, I picked him up afterwards and sure enough, a 4 shot group about the size of a nickel right on his chest. Reminded me of a big jack rabbit I hit out in the desert 3 times with a 60gr VMax out of my M4. Damn rabbit kept running for about 100 yards. When I finally got up to it's body, it had no internal organs anymore but it still ran about 100 yards before dropping.
 
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abqjoe said:
So I get this certain species of ground bird in my yard that likes to destroy my Bonsai tree's and I eliminate them on the spot. I heard a pair of them out back this morning so I went outside with my little bluetooth speaker and played a few calls and the male came in. I pointed my new FX Impact M3 22 cal Compact at him, aligned my crosshairs, squeezed the trigger, and BAM, hit him dead in the chest with a 15gr Hades! A poof of feathers the size of my fist came off of him upon impact but the little sucker didn't die. He calmly hopped to a lower branch and started singing again. So I hit him again right in the chest with the same result and man, still not dead. I repeated 2 more times with the same result before he finally went to the ground but wasn't dead. This little dude was hopping around on the ground after being hit 4 times in the chest with Hades out of my M3 as was still alive. I walked over to him, he looked me dead in the eye, I looked at him back, put the rifle right up to his head and that was that.
Have any of you dealt with a zombie pest before lol? I got his little girlfriend a couple hours later and 1 shot in the chest was all it took.
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Must have migrated from my state here in CA. We have some strange animals.
 
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