My first hunting video - pigeons with my Impact Mk2 .22

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Doug-T

Doug-T

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Yesterday Wade and I headed out to "The Farm" in NE Oregon. This place is huge with tens of thousands of irrigation circles and hundreds of thousands of dairy & beef cattle. There are LOTS of pigeons and starlings, probably in the multiple millions. We normally concentrate on starlings and 300-500 in a winter day isn't abnormal. Today, though, was my first day here with my Impact so we went to a different part of the farm with fewer cattle and concentrated on pigeons. The video camera mount works OK but it's slow to turn on, program for macro and sight the birds in the viewfinder. I'll be building a SideShot type action camera system soon so that problem should go away. We ended up with over 120 pigeons and a handful of starlings and sparrows. Wade had the longest shot of 122 yards with the 5-7mph wind quartering away. I'm really liking the Athlon Midas TAC scope. The concrete walls the pigeons are sitting on are sileage pit walls, double concrete walls in an "A" provide with the top part about 18" wide and open. The pigeons roost and nest at the bottom because it's good shelter. When they fall they usually fill into these areas where we can't get to them.

Here's a little video of the first 1/2 hour or so. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwgaNahfFo&t=204s

We were able to collect 43 of the dead birds.

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It didn't seem to matter which one you shot first, closest or furthest. They just flew around and landed again. There is so much farm activity and noise around here they don't seem fazed by air rifles. We'd pick up the dead ones every once in a while when they seemed skittish.

We could have doubled, or more, our total if we shot off of roof peaks. Pass throughs or misses would be a real problem with all of the cattle and farm equipment around. Better safe than sorry.
 
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It didn't seem to matter which one you shot first, closest or furthest. They just flew around and landed again. There is so much farm activity and noise around here they don't seem fazed by air rifles. We'd pick up the dead ones every once in a while when they seemed skittish.

We could have doubled, or more, our total if we shot off of roof peaks. Pass throughs or misses would be a real problem with all of the cattle and farm equipment around. Better safe than sorry.
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Yeah I was thinking about you using slugs and how safe it was with that kind of power. Also if you had safe back ground with the roof shots. Seemed like a lot of your shots were under fifty yards which would make the JSB Hades of H&N Terminators a good choice. Bill
 
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If you look at the video we only took shots with hay bales or sileage piles or tires as a background. We shot some off of huge metal I-beams when they were perched on the lower lip.
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Not saying you were being reckless but also thinking at the close ranges you were shooting you could be saving some money shooting pellets instead and be able to tune you rifles down to get a higher shot count to take care of that tremendous number of pigeons there. Bill

PS have you seen those speed loaders available for the Impact would really save some time with high volume shooting like you have there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7HezhQfCoI&t=199s&ab_channel=WiscAirGunners
 
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