I bait sparrows year round

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airgunmike56

airgunmike56

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I bait sparrows year round, I buy a 50 lb bag of chicken scratch and put it in all my feeders , 50 lbs last a month or two, Early AM its fast shooting 15 to 30 sparrows in an hour or so mosty the females , Then about an hour before dark late PM the males come in same thing 15 to 30 in an hour sometimes more sometimes less. You can keep this up two or three time a week, Then you have to let them rest for a month or two, I have wiped them out a time or too there like rats takes a little time to come back, I do have lots of good birds song birds and doves, I do shoot the Euro doves or ring necks as some people call them.
This is my PM shoot with my RTI 177 shooting Hades at 880 FPS . I rotate my 177 guns shooting sparrows , Uragan. Vulcan, and RTI, The 22 ,25,30, or just to much over kill.
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When I first got into air gunning. I put out bird seed (even tried cat food ) every day for about two years. Every now and then I’d get some starlings. But never English sparrows. I can drive one block to a strip mall with a fast food restaurant in it. And there will be starlings and sparrows all over the place. I’ve got all the pest under control. I can wipe out the rabbits and squirrels in about a week. But honestly they are not doing any damage. The rat population is under control. I was shooting mice. But have not seen any in the last week.
Looks like great fun.
 
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airgunmike56 said:
I bait sparrows year round, I buy a 50 lb bag of chicken scratch and put it in all my feeders , 50 lbs last a month or two, Early AM its fast shooting 15 to 30 sparrows in an hour or so mosty the females , Then about an hour before dark late PM the males come in same thing 15 to 30 in an hour sometimes more sometimes less. You can keep this up two or three time a week, Then you have to let them rest for a month or two, I have wiped them out a time or too there like rats takes a little time to come back, I do have lots of good birds song birds and doves, I do shoot the Euro doves or ring necks as some people call them.
This is my PM shoot with my RTI 177 shooting Hades at 880 FPS . I rotate my 177 guns shooting sparrows , Uragan. Vulcan, and RTI, The 22 ,25,30, or just to much over kill.
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Love the feathers and blood splatter art on the backstop… I consider the English house sparrows to be among the nastiest, smartest pests out there. So good on you for smoking them good.
 
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They are a pest. But I hope you don't consider this hunting. Because it isn't. At least IMHO.

Pesting yes.
Hunting no.

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They are true pest , If you like your native birds you have to dislike the sparrow, They did feed a lot of people in the depression times, People used the old mouse traps to catch them, To me it is a form of hunting you have to move around and at times cover your face with a cloth, The little pest are smart, Not Grackle smart but close.
Mike
 
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In the heat of the summer here 108 degrees , Down to shooting 10 to 15 sparrows per day, Getting pretty thin, I have had to add water to the feeders to keep them coming in , I switched back to a 8gr wadcutter at about 1000 FPS at 30 yards the pop is just crazy loud, The little 177 8gr wadcutter does more damage than a 22 caliber Hades and makes a lot more noise on impact, Pretty sick LOL.
Mike
 
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I have many hosps here. But no real opportunity to shoot them. There is only one shooting lane, and that has risks.

There is no way I could get away with a deathbox feeder.

Mike wadcutters rule! But 1,000 FPS? I have yet to find accuracy above 700.
I do have my first tin of Supermags that I will try to push a little harder.
First RWS pellet I have found that any of my guns like.

My stock 1720 pushes them in the 680 range and stacks them at 10m. Hopefully today I can sneak out and set my zero at 18-20 yards or so. Then I will see how they do at longer ranges like 30.
 
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Firewalker said:
We have both starlings and english sparrows around here but they are on to me and can detect any door opening on the house, even on the other side. We can watch them through the window and even thought they can see us, they dont fly away but once we open a door...

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I have found that critters like squirrels and bunnies are on to my movements. They hear me and the dogs on the basement stairs long before we get to the door for the chase.
 
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airgunmike56 said:
I bait sparrows year round, I buy a 50 lb bag of chicken scratch and put it in all my feeders , 50 lbs last a month or two, Early AM its fast shooting 15 to 30 sparrows in an hour or so mosty the females , Then about an hour before dark late PM the males come in same thing 15 to 30 in an hour sometimes more sometimes less. You can keep this up two or three time a week, Then you have to let them rest for a month or two, I have wiped them out a time or too there like rats takes a little time to come back, I do have lots of good birds song birds and doves, I do shoot the Euro doves or ring necks as some people call them.
This is my PM shoot with my RTI 177 shooting Hades at 880 FPS . I rotate my 177 guns shooting sparrows , Uragan. Vulcan, and RTI, The 22 ,25,30, or just to much over kill.
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I shoot them year round also, I probably spend $500 a year or more on bird seed 😁
 
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jps2486 said:
I'm not an anti-hunter, but I fail to see why you shoot sparrows. They surely aren't pests.
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I live in Pa and it’s open game on them year round according to the PA game commission stating they are an evasive species and no closed season or bag limit, and I enjoy seeing them pop like balloons when 65fpe hits them 😊😀😀
 
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jps2486 said:
I'm not an anti-hunter, but I fail to see why you shoot sparrows. They surely aren't pests.
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They are, like starlings, an I invasive species introduced to this continent in the 1800’s because some clown in NYC thought they would be good at eating the army worms or some type of caterpillars.

They have gone from 20 breeding pairs to a population of over 700,000,000 and decimated our native song birds. They throw baby bluebirds out of the nest and claim it.

It is the only thing Chairman Mao was ever correct on, all sparrows (English house sparrows) must die.
 
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They are actually terrible pests. I just shot this nesting pair trying to oust a pair of swallows.
Every year I fight to keep a few nesting boxes for the swallows and every year the sparrows come to displace them.
When the sparrows fledge and the babies can fly well they join the adults and go on swallow nestling killing sprees.
Totally natural except for the sparrows are invasive species.

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Struckat said:
They are, like starlings, an I invasive species introduced to this continent in the 1800’s because some clown in NYC thought they would be good at eating the army worms or some type of caterpillars.

They have gone from 20 breeding pairs to a population of over 700,000,000 and decimated our native song birds. They throw baby bluebirds out of the nest and claim it.

It is the only thing Chairman Mao was ever correct on, all sparrows (English house sparrows) must die.
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Don’t forget starlings to lol they all must die too 😁 I blow them away every chance I get too lol
 
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