Starling Triple

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I know times are tough but at 0.04 cents a pellet, does it really make sense to save 0.08 cents and wait for the perfect line up. I'm cheap, but damn.

😂

Nice shooting, when the planets align I guess you have to take advantage.

What's all the white stuff on the roof and dripping down?

California, we have every other issue except snow and icicles. 



Smitty
 
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Great score!

I got a starling triple in the mid-1970s with a .177 FWB 124 spring-piston rifle with a 30 yard offhand shot, using the old pointed Silver Jet pellets.

Had a nice string of starlings along a high-wire, and wondered how many that power and pellet combination was capable of. Realized if I hit the first in the neck the second would take it in the high-chest and the third in mid-chest; so concentrated completely on hitting the first in the neck and made a perfect shot. 

The first bird dropped instantly, the second hung from the wire a couple seconds before falling, while the third did a diagonal crash-dive to the ground. The forty year-old memory is as vivid now as the day it happened. Sure wish I had a video... rather than mental replays!
 
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Starlings from my limited experience are pretty tough. I've hit more then one pretty solid and had them fly off. To drop three is not going to happen often even if you make a perfect shot on the first one but it will never happen if you don't. 

I was shooting at pigeons and had one stick just his head over the edge of the silo. Long shot (68 yards) I think I hit him only because it sounded like a hit but he didn't fall .Flat roof on the cement silo (Lucky shot) There is a degree of luck in this shooting game. I've always said the difference between a good day and a bad is whether the close ones are misses or hits. My challenge is making the first shots out at 60 plus yards . If the bird or birds sit there and let me shoot at them a time or two I do OK Judging distance and wind when you get out there is what separates the boys from the men . 

Great shooting Bob. 
 
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Thanks everyone! Sorry, been so busy. This is the third time I've gotten a triple. Only one was clean DRT on all three. The other two times were clean on two and the third was a less-than-quick death.

I've had about ten of them line up on that board many times, but mostly after there is enough snow that I can't get into the position I was in on this day because it's not kept clear in the winter.

I've been thinking of making a compilation of clips that are two or more with one shot and head shots all in one video. The bird shooting will get lots better when we get more snow. We have plenty of cold right now, just not much snow in the forecast.
 
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