Ok guys, so I've posted a few comments but not one about my gun or current hunting. Love the forum though. Was a tremendous help whilst trying to decide on the perfect PCP for what I want to do with it. It was my first pcp so it took months of research and looking with WTB ads to finally have what I believe to be the ultimate pesting setup. At least "ultimate" by my standards and used for what I kill with it. I ended up going with an Ernest Rowe tuned Kalibrgun Colibri Hummingbird. I'll post some reviews when I get time and tell y'all about her.
Anyway, I'm about to share a story that happened this past Sunday. I only post this because after talking to the guy I got the gun from, he said I should tell it and let y'all comment. I hesitate because I'm not a braggart or looking for praise, so understand thats not what this story is for. It's because it's so f'ing unbelievable!! And I just want to know has anybody else had this happen to them or anyone else they know.
Copied and pasted from our texts...
Hey Jimmy. I almost texted you last night. She's a beautiful thing. Pooof and WHACK! The impact of the pellet can not be mistaken. She took down over 50 over the past 7 days. Mostly last Saturday and Sunday. It was raining and they just kept coming.
Dude, I had something happened to me the other day with that gun that has never happened ever before to me, with any gun and will probably never happen to me or anybody I know again. The outcomes on this shot I'm about to tell you about would have differed greatly if you looked at it in the millionths of a second.
Long and Short version...I had a Starling pop up and give me a perfect shot. As soon as the crosshairs lay upon his worthless ass and my finger found the trigger, he flew ten yds to another spot. Threw the gun over instantly, settled the crosshairs and as I squeezed the trigger, I saw a very fast flash of gray through the scope, I'm talking, this gray almost flashed faster than the human eye could follow. I opened both eyes as soon as I shot and watched the starling squawk like they do when you hit em up the anus, and fly down into some thick scrub. I knew I hit him, but where the crosshairs were on him when I pulled the trigger it should have blowed the back of his head off. Instead, it hit him bad. Only there was no wind and nothing between me and my target...at 11yds.
Anyways it made me start thinking about what the hell had just happened and for 30 minutes I was wondering if that was another bird that had flown in between me and the other bird when I shot and that was that flash I had seen. I remember thinking that was one lucky son of a b**** if it was a bird. I remember exactly saying out loud to myself, "he must not value his life".
Later on that day, I walked out into that area of the yard and there on the ground dead, was a frickin mockingbird, shot through and through. I would never have got him on purpose. In the exact moment in time that I squeezed that trigger to shoot the starling, he flew in between the path of the pellet and the starling. I couldn't believe I hit him. The more I thought about the other infinite possibilities it could have been the more I just couldn't believe the coincidental timing. I ended up tracking down the starling to find out what happened.
He was facing away from me when I shot looking back over his left shoulder and I had the crosshairs on the side of his head...maybe 11yds. I hit him low and to the right under the tail. The impact on the other bird dropped the pellet an inch low and an inch right. And that made perfect sense because the mockingbird was coming in hot from the left to the right and down.
Have you ever heard of such a story and can you believe that really happened?
Guys I only tell this because I just can barely believe it myself. If I hadn't picked the dead bird off the ground, I would never have believed it truly truly happened.
Let me give you some interesting facts because I just don't understand the science behind it...the starling was 11 yds exactly from where I took the shot. I measured it today. Facing away and looking back across its left shoulder... Crosshairs squarely on the side of the head. I even hesitated for two seconds to be sure before I pulled the trigger. As I squeezed, I opened my left eye, as I have a bad habit of liking to watch the impact and them fall and saw what looked to be a flash of something gray coming from left to right in a blur at the exact moment I pulled the trigger. After tracking down the starling, I could see that he'd been hit low and to the right, an inch both ways. The shot placement on the starling makes perfect sense if it passed threw something like another bird in flight. It would naturally change the point of impact, based on the direction, density and speed the first object was travelling. Something denser might have changed the impact point even more and missed the starling all together. Absolutely CRAZYINESS!
I'm shooting a Colibri Hummingbird at 930fps JSB exact heavies @ 18.1gr.
The target to hit on that mockingbird was about the size of a chicken egg, flying at a fast rate of travel, across an open area between me and the starling. What are the odds? I can hardly believe it and I'm the one it happened to... biggest lesson learned, should have bought a Casio exilim xr-1100 and a mount!!!
Anyway, I'm about to share a story that happened this past Sunday. I only post this because after talking to the guy I got the gun from, he said I should tell it and let y'all comment. I hesitate because I'm not a braggart or looking for praise, so understand thats not what this story is for. It's because it's so f'ing unbelievable!! And I just want to know has anybody else had this happen to them or anyone else they know.
Copied and pasted from our texts...
Hey Jimmy. I almost texted you last night. She's a beautiful thing. Pooof and WHACK! The impact of the pellet can not be mistaken. She took down over 50 over the past 7 days. Mostly last Saturday and Sunday. It was raining and they just kept coming.
Dude, I had something happened to me the other day with that gun that has never happened ever before to me, with any gun and will probably never happen to me or anybody I know again. The outcomes on this shot I'm about to tell you about would have differed greatly if you looked at it in the millionths of a second.
Long and Short version...I had a Starling pop up and give me a perfect shot. As soon as the crosshairs lay upon his worthless ass and my finger found the trigger, he flew ten yds to another spot. Threw the gun over instantly, settled the crosshairs and as I squeezed the trigger, I saw a very fast flash of gray through the scope, I'm talking, this gray almost flashed faster than the human eye could follow. I opened both eyes as soon as I shot and watched the starling squawk like they do when you hit em up the anus, and fly down into some thick scrub. I knew I hit him, but where the crosshairs were on him when I pulled the trigger it should have blowed the back of his head off. Instead, it hit him bad. Only there was no wind and nothing between me and my target...at 11yds.
Anyways it made me start thinking about what the hell had just happened and for 30 minutes I was wondering if that was another bird that had flown in between me and the other bird when I shot and that was that flash I had seen. I remember thinking that was one lucky son of a b**** if it was a bird. I remember exactly saying out loud to myself, "he must not value his life".
Later on that day, I walked out into that area of the yard and there on the ground dead, was a frickin mockingbird, shot through and through. I would never have got him on purpose. In the exact moment in time that I squeezed that trigger to shoot the starling, he flew in between the path of the pellet and the starling. I couldn't believe I hit him. The more I thought about the other infinite possibilities it could have been the more I just couldn't believe the coincidental timing. I ended up tracking down the starling to find out what happened.
He was facing away from me when I shot looking back over his left shoulder and I had the crosshairs on the side of his head...maybe 11yds. I hit him low and to the right under the tail. The impact on the other bird dropped the pellet an inch low and an inch right. And that made perfect sense because the mockingbird was coming in hot from the left to the right and down.
Have you ever heard of such a story and can you believe that really happened?
Guys I only tell this because I just can barely believe it myself. If I hadn't picked the dead bird off the ground, I would never have believed it truly truly happened.
Let me give you some interesting facts because I just don't understand the science behind it...the starling was 11 yds exactly from where I took the shot. I measured it today. Facing away and looking back across its left shoulder... Crosshairs squarely on the side of the head. I even hesitated for two seconds to be sure before I pulled the trigger. As I squeezed, I opened my left eye, as I have a bad habit of liking to watch the impact and them fall and saw what looked to be a flash of something gray coming from left to right in a blur at the exact moment I pulled the trigger. After tracking down the starling, I could see that he'd been hit low and to the right, an inch both ways. The shot placement on the starling makes perfect sense if it passed threw something like another bird in flight. It would naturally change the point of impact, based on the direction, density and speed the first object was travelling. Something denser might have changed the impact point even more and missed the starling all together. Absolutely CRAZYINESS!
I'm shooting a Colibri Hummingbird at 930fps JSB exact heavies @ 18.1gr.
The target to hit on that mockingbird was about the size of a chicken egg, flying at a fast rate of travel, across an open area between me and the starling. What are the odds? I can hardly believe it and I'm the one it happened to... biggest lesson learned, should have bought a Casio exilim xr-1100 and a mount!!!
