Short video from today.
I thought I'd be able to recover a slug but it was a thru and thru shot.
https://youtu.be/yx51B2BfrTM
I thought I'd be able to recover a slug but it was a thru and thru shot.
https://youtu.be/yx51B2BfrTM
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How much can a feral pigeon eat?
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Nice shot Bob!
Yeah, quite a crop full and considering the size of the flocks that hang around the feeders - no wonder the farmers are happy to see them shot.
On my permissions, chipmunks are a big concern. A pigeon will eat the corn it takes, the chipmunks will grab and stash every kernel the can. I did an experiment and put out 4 cups of corn and one chipmunk (frantically running back and forth) hauled it all to its burrow in under an hour. An owner told me that he was doing an excavation and unearthed a chipmunk burrow about 75 yards from the barn that had about a feed-bags worth (50 pounds) of corn in it. Not surprising that the owners put a priority on chipmunks and my scoped FWB 300 sees a lot of use out on the farms. I set up a lawn chair near the corn cribs and settle down for some arcade-style shooting - 15-20 chipmunks is typical for a mornings' shoot.
Yeah, quite a crop full and considering the size of the flocks that hang around the feeders - no wonder the farmers are happy to see them shot.
On my permissions, chipmunks are a big concern. A pigeon will eat the corn it takes, the chipmunks will grab and stash every kernel the can. I did an experiment and put out 4 cups of corn and one chipmunk (frantically running back and forth) hauled it all to its burrow in under an hour. An owner told me that he was doing an excavation and unearthed a chipmunk burrow about 75 yards from the barn that had about a feed-bags worth (50 pounds) of corn in it. Not surprising that the owners put a priority on chipmunks and my scoped FWB 300 sees a lot of use out on the farms. I set up a lawn chair near the corn cribs and settle down for some arcade-style shooting - 15-20 chipmunks is typical for a mornings' shoot.
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LOL! Must be a Beagle thing. Here I thought ours had a broken fuel gauge...apparently eating makes her hungry.
Mike
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Wow that is a lot of corn in that pigeons crop and I recognized the sound of the FX Hybrid pop too. Bill
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Nice shooting Bob as usual. Is first priority elimination because of disease or eating the corn?
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Good analogy with the broken fuel gauge! My wife had a beagle growing up that was quiet, docile and had no lust for food or other stuff resembling food. We thought ours would be the same, but it is not. Now that I know about yours I guess her original one was the anomaly! LOL
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That is an insane amount of food stuffed in there. How the heck can they fly with all that?! LOL
Glad you're getting that kind if accuracy with the FX hybrids at that velocity. I haven't had time to test them over 910fps yet, but I was hoping they would be stable at or over 980. They sure do smack real hard on impact too!
Glad you're getting that kind if accuracy with the FX hybrids at that velocity. I haven't had time to test them over 910fps yet, but I was hoping they would be stable at or over 980. They sure do smack real hard on impact too!
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Nice shooting. As you say, the quantity of grain they can eat is staggering, the amount of sh1t they leave, equally so. I used to control feral pigeons at a local four mill, the most I shot in one afternoon was 208. I must have cleared about 10,000 over the years.
Bb
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I feed the ones around here once one pellet at a time 200+ in a little over 2 hours I had theoben mfr 20 cal and friend with my beeman springer 
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