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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Starling season is back...too bad for them

Posted: 5/27/2014 6:52:03 PM EDT

Using a Remington break action .17 pellet rifle, I taught the wife how to obtain the sight picture and let'em have it...
She is 3 for 4 the past 5 days and is pleased of her handy work...One might say "she's in the business of killing starlings, and business is good...

A male dropped tonight...

Wife if almost 25 years...does not shoot guns much but here grandfather taught her to shoot a starling given the chance...

Posted: 5/27/2014 10:58:27 PM EDT

[#1]

Purple Martin landlords thank her.

Posted: 5/27/2014 11:48:10 PM EDT

[#2]

Been shooting the heck out of them on the farm, nasty things.

Posted: 5/28/2014 12:22:28 AM EDT

[#3]

I killed a lot of those with #8s when we lived West of Cheyenne, but where we live now, I never see any.

I have, however, declared jihad on Grackles.... I hate them with a passion.

Posted: 5/28/2014 7:45:47 AM EDT

[#4]

nice wife, nice hobby. Happy hunting.

Posted: 5/28/2014 8:27:46 AM EDT

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QFT

Thank you.

Posted: 6/2/2014 3:13:19 PM EDT

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Wife if almost 25 years...does not shoot guns much but here grandfather taught her to shoot a starling given the chance...
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Good looking, barefoot, and armed.

You, sir, are a lucky man.

Posted: 6/3/2014 7:19:23 PM EDT

[#7]

NICE!!! And she even got their wallets = $$$

Posted: 6/15/2014 9:48:52 AM EDT

[#8]

I hate those things with a passion. One of my favorite hobbies is dog food+starlings+pellet rifle=trigger time!

Posted: 6/16/2014 1:09:31 AM EDT

[#9]

There seems to be an unlimited supply of starlings on the farms I visit. I've taken a few out using a suppressed 22. The biggest problem is getting a clear shot as to not damage any farm equipment. Maybe I outta invest in an air rifle.

Posted: 6/19/2014 1:14:39 AM EDT

[#10]

I've never actually been hunting for anything larger than rodents and starlings. However, I was tasked in my youth with (European, thus not protected by Migratory Bird Act) starling elimination, a job I and my pellet gun accepted with grim determination.

Posted: 6/20/2014 2:19:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 7/13/2014 4:58:32 PM EDT

[#12]

Nice work. Just so you know, there is no season when you cannot shoot starlings.

"Starlings are exempt from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) of 1918, which was passed for the protection of migratory birds. Their nests, eggs, young, and/or adults may be removed or destroyed at any time. No permit is required."

Posted: 7/19/2014 9:15:56 PM EDT

[#13]

Great job they are sometime tough little targets. Knocked off several myself.

Posted: 7/20/2014 10:17:46 AM EDT

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Posted: 7/25/2014 3:16:44 AM EDT

[#15]

Good job, we have a ton of them in our area. When the leaves are off the trees and they are easier to see they become better targets.

Posted: 8/16/2014 6:52:08 PM EDT

[#16]

Pulled a purple martin body out of a nest. Hole in the abdomen that looked like a starling beak. Found a starling trapped in a hole, and taped it shut. Oops.

Posted: 11/7/2014 2:21:03 AM EDT

[#17]

when I was a kid my brother and I would shoot them off the neighbors Chimney in the winter. They would crowd all around it getting warm. Pop goes the pellet gun and down the chimney another one would go. Must have been hundreds of them down there.

Used to put bread in a bird cage with a string holding the door open and wait until their was a black mass of birds in it and drop the door. Take them out to a friends farm and practice skeet shooting. Fuck those things, Cleaned out more starling nests in the eves in this house than I can count.

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