Spring pest control

I got my first pest of the year

These little buggers are running rampant outside the shop and creating all kinds of damage to the landscape and are good at excavating pea gravel out from under the sidewalks too. So I brought in my AR-22 as I do every year to clean house. Right now the adults are not out much since they have their nests built....but I got this one after a fresh mow.

I use Remington Sub sonics to keep the noise levels down. I used to nail them with the 17 Mach 2's....those will split ground squirrels in half.

About a 60 yard take down.

#2 for the day. It was out at about 75 yards....it took 2 shots to get him.




It looks as if I might have grazed this guy before...there is a patch you can just see on his back that is missing fur and has scared over. about the width of a 22 bullet.

Them be good ones now. Nice shooting!

2 down and a billion more to go. Go get them.....

Looks like dinner

RichBirdHunter wrote:Looks like dinner

Yeah...for the worms or Vultures,lol

Nicnac wrote:2 down and a billion more to go. Go get them.....

I usually get about 20 per year out there...I think they reproduce faster than I can reload.

hawcer wrote:

RichBirdHunter wrote:Looks like dinner

Yeah...for the worms or Vultures,lol

Looks like good Crow killin bait..........Aargh

We don't have a lot of crows around here.....shame too...I hate crows, and love to shoot them

They might attract some possum or yotes though...

I wish you could send one of those to me so I could taxidermy it. I highly doubt the mailman would be too happy though when the box started to stink.

fletch_medic wrote:I wish you could send one of those to me so I could taxidermy it. I highly doubt the mailman would be too happy though when the box started to stink.

I suppose it could be packed in dry ice....


My thoughts on crows....

1) they are loud and obnoxious and continuously have run on of the mouth.
2) they are lazy and take what they can steal or scavenge from something else.
3) They are always in packs(flocks)...never will you see a solo crow.
4) there is always one "look out" ready to warn the others.(shoot this sob first )
5) they pester larger birds like eagles and hawks...courage must come in numbers with them. A crow will never pester a eagle or hawk by itself.

hmmmm.....sounds like a bunch of LA gang bangers to me.

Usually when I want to and have the means to kill a crow I am hunting something else and don't want to screw up my hunting. Crows are either extremely smart or extremely lucky.

hawcer wrote:

fletch_medic wrote:I wish you could send one of those to me so I could taxidermy it. I highly doubt the mailman would be too happy though when the box started to stink.

I suppose it could be packed in dry ice....


My thoughts on crows....

1) they are loud and obnoxious and continuously have run on of the mouth.
2) they are lazy and take what they can steal or scavenge from something else.
3) They are always in packs(flocks)...never will you see a solo crow.
4) there is always one "look out" ready to warn the others.(shoot this sob first )
5) they pester larger birds like eagles and hawks...courage must come in numbers with them. A crow will never pester a eagle or hawk by itself.

hmmmm.....sounds like a bunch of LA gang bangers to me.

Wow, you almost described someone from our past that we know with that post huh?

Daywalker wrote:

hawcer wrote:

fletch_medic wrote:I wish you could send one of those to me so I could taxidermy it. I highly doubt the mailman would be too happy though when the box started to stink.

I suppose it could be packed in dry ice....


My thoughts on crows....

1) they are loud and obnoxious and continuously have run on of the mouth.
2) they are lazy and take what they can steal or scavenge from something else.
3) They are always in packs(flocks)...never will you see a solo crow.
4) there is always one "look out" ready to warn the others.(shoot this sob first )
5) they pester larger birds like eagles and hawks...courage must come in numbers with them. A crow will never pester a eagle or hawk by itself.

hmmmm.....sounds like a bunch of LA gang bangers to me.

Wow, you almost described someone from our past that we know with that post huh?

Yeah he was a real bird brain.

Now I would not go that far. I have even seen birds learn to talk!!!!

Ok sorry Hawcer, back to you....lol

Hey, pest control is pest control....it doesn't matter how many legs they walk on.