Just back home from my sons shooting job
shootuadeal
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Large dairy a couple miles from my house has a pigeon problem. The owner asked me to get a pellett gun for him, he is from Netherlands and doesn't really know anything about guns so I got him a scoped single pump 1000ish fps rifle. I sighted the scope in and my 14 year old and I took it over and tried it out a couple weeks ago. In the process the owner came over to visit and watched my son walking around shooting pigeons.
The next day he called and said he'd pay my son $2 for every pigeon he shot haha. He went over a couple times after school and didn't have much luck, they saw him coming always and he couldn't get close enough. The owner stopped us yesterday and paid him $20 for the ones he got already and said another person was going to be trying also.
Not to be outdone I decided the best method would be to get a 550fps or so pellet gun and shoot them inside one of the barns, at night. If you know anything about pigeons you know that they won't fly outside at night.
We gave that a try last night and ended up with 15 confirmed kills and many more hit but didn't die right away so we didn't count them. Tonight we weren't there as long but got 9 confirmed, plus I shot a skunk with my silenced .22.
My wife has an old Crosman and she has been in on it too with me just supervising mainly, occasionally taking a shot. The two pellet guns are so quite it doesn't even startle the cows but the downside is there's lots of hits that don't kill the pigeon.
Anyway, it's been a pretty fun activity plus my son is making a little spending cash out of it.
I didn't take many pictures but this is one..
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Sorry for the sideways picture, someday I'll figure it out.
And when you do someone will "update" something and something else will cause us headaches ;)
sounds like a fun way to make a few bucks . have fun
he needs a pigeon costume
thats gotta make the cows feel better.............
sounds like experience talking
Are you eating them?
They taste just like a really big dove.
I told him I was going to get him this camouflage hunting outfit...
Might birdshot work? Might lose money now though.
It would probably work better for killing but I worry it would be too loud for the cows. If they get spooked and panic run they will probably injure themselves in the confines of that barn.
I shot a skunk just outside the barn with a .22 last night but it had a silencer on it and I won't shoot Bird shot through a silencer.
Great way to earn some money! And very generous of the man.
I have watched videos of Brits shooting rats in English barns. I could not believe the number of rats they have. They use some very sophisticated equipment but must abide by laws regulating the power of their guns. I think they cannot exceed 3 ft. lbs. of energy if I remember correctly. Maybe it is a little more than that but I haven't watched one for a few years.
He should invest some of his money in a pigeon trap, that we he can be earning even when he's not there.
We plan on building one when we have time.
That's even better.
...Cover them with Bacon strips and bake slow...then mix up a simple egg/milk batter, then toss 'em in some flour and fry 'em in hot oil just a couple of minuets until browned...make some cream gravy, and eat well...