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Extreme Long Range Pellet Rifle
Western Shooting Journal ^
| 2/24/2015
| Eric Nestor
Posted on 02/24/2015 8:32:17 AM PST by w1n1
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To: Dusty Road
I don't think I'd pass out. I spent 17 months in combat in Vietnam and saw all sorts of ways people can die. I even did even more than my share in killing people.
I just consider wanton shooting of harmless, defenseless creatures as inhuman. Hunt stuff for food? I'll join you. Pick off some poor songbird to show off your air rifle - I'll pass.
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posted on
02/24/2015 11:25:37 AM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Stentor
That would be good. The adoption I mean.
Tell you what, mister. Someday when you have time I’ll give you the latest, about the neighbor’s Great Pyrenees dog that showed up over here with a bum leg, right around Thanksgiving, when it was 20 below.
I’ll be writing checks for that one for a while yet. lol.
To: PoloSec
Yes there was a waiver for rats. LOL!
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posted on
02/24/2015 12:03:07 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Chainmail
You've been a Marine. Good for you.
You've apparently never been a farmer.
A completely inoffensive animal is shot and killed for nothing.
That would be disgusting.
Agricultural pests are not "completely inoffensive". Quite the contrary. Agricultural pests are a big detriment to farmers getting your dinner into your chow hall or kitchen. Farmers deal with agricultural pests by killing them. That covers wolves, coyotes, ground hogs, prairie dogs, rats, mice, sparrows, starlings, crows, pigeons, deer, and others I'm not thinking of off hand. They're killed by poisoning, by shooting, by fuel-air explosion, and any other method that seems reasonable. So when farmers (and their friends) kill pests, you should thank them.
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posted on
02/24/2015 12:05:58 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Chainmail
We’re not too different there. I don’t even step on insects unless they are the kind that need stepping on, even if they are in my house:)
To: NorthMountain
You are correct - I have never been a farmer. What you have to do to protect your crops/stored grain is part of your job and not “wanton killing”.
My argument was against the video where a bird was shot off a phone line to demonstrate an air rifle.
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posted on
02/24/2015 12:41:16 PM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: Chainmail
The bird in question was an English Sparrow, an invasive and pestiferous species brought here during the colonial period. Feral cats are probably more effective at reducing their population than marksmen, but cats make no distinction among species. If I could find a way to train (hah!) my outdoor cats to only attack english sparrows and starlings, I would.
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:00:06 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Chainmail
And just to be sure ... If this guy was shooting cardinals, or bluejays, or some other similar birds that actually are inoffensive and inedible, I'd join you in condemning him.
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:02:43 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Gaffer
Kinda thought they were bluebirds...but nevertheless.
If they were migratory birds or protected..the shooter could be in trouble.
Unless of course they are Wind or Solar power exempt.
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:07:06 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: 728b
Hard to tell....but I’d guess you are right.
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:09:02 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Osage Orange
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:49:49 PM PST
by
Clint N. Suhks
( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
Just hard for me to tell...what exactly that bird was that got waxed............
I'm all for...wiping out invasive birds, animals, people...........
Kidding...sort of.
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:56:23 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Chainmail
“I spent 17 months in combat in Vietnam “
Spent a little time there myself, who were you with?
To: w1n1
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posted on
02/24/2015 2:02:51 PM PST
by
Doomonyou
(Let them eat Lead.)
To: Osage Orange
Look closely at the throat when the birds moves. The dark patch on the throat is the give away. You can also see the patch on the bird to the right.
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posted on
02/24/2015 2:22:21 PM PST
by
728b
(Never cry over something that can not cry over you.)
To: Osage Orange
The one with the yellow beak is the European Starling and the little brown one is a House Sparrow, both invasive species. I shoot them every chance I get.
If they were birds protected by the US Fish and Wildlife the feds would come after them so it would be pretty foolish to put it on YouTube.
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posted on
02/24/2015 2:32:47 PM PST
by
Clint N. Suhks
( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
To: 728b
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posted on
02/24/2015 3:14:30 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Clint N. Suhks
No worries.....
But won't be the last dumbass to place something on YouTube..........
FWIW-
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posted on
02/24/2015 3:15:46 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: NorthMountain
When you see for the first time...4 coyotes tearing off a birthing cow’s tail...and then waiting around for the calf. You get a different perspective.
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posted on
02/24/2015 3:19:04 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: Dusty Road
From January to August ‘66, a humble cannoneer with Bravo battery 1/11 and after that to May ‘67 with Echo and Golf company’s, 2/1 as a Scout Observer. And whenever SAVAPLANE was in effect a pretty good automatic rifleman with the very last M14 in the 1st MarDiv.
And you?
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posted on
02/24/2015 4:01:19 PM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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