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They cease to be “song birds” after they are shot Oakey! With the right barrel you’re going to love that Taipan. I just tuned a Cricket compact .177. It’s a really nice gun but I prefer the Mutant. The magazine is easier, the trigger is better and the way the gun indexes is super smooth.
Greg remember this maxim: nothing is illegal to shoot if the gun is quiet enough.
Man I wish I had song birds to shoot around my house, for some reason they are all gone…cant figure out why :butkick:
A very close bird that we have to a Starling are Bulbul birds (non indigenous to Hawaii) they’re very aggressive I’ve seem them gang up on a new born chick and torn it apart.
~ Greg
Stop shooting the song birds you pricks.
We have a lot of starlings as well as the sparrows but they are larger and pretty easy to hit out to 75 yards, occasional crows and pigeons. We also can get permits by just asking for birds that attack our brick and cedar houses non-stop i.e. woodpeckers and they are in crazy numbers since I am near a lot of woods. Squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, and a few skunks abound, and some ground hogs. We also have opossums and red fox (more like pets running around) that I don’t shoot or normal game like deer (like cattle running around) and turkey which are everywhere but we don’t hunt here. It is rare for a day to go by without a lot of legitimate targets in the yard (2.5 acres surrounded by many acres of woods) and a creek crossing the back 60 yards behind the house down a slope. 🙂
We have Japanese white eye (mejiro) bird in Hawaii that are about half the size of sparrow, are extremely twitchy and illegal to shoot.
This are African Common Waxbill and I been seeing a lot of these lately they come and go in bunches of 8-30 at a time, very twitchy and even smaller still.
~ Greg
It took me a while to get used to it but now I am deadly at anything I can see in my backyard plus it is very fast. I often have less than two seconds to get on a sparrow and fire before he is gone.
Nice upgrade I heard they work well.
I’ve been using a paint bucket and placing my right elbow on the tail gate of my truck.
~ Greg
Regards
LarryW 🙄
Thanks Larry, for the good tip …… I rotated the front one …… done !
~ Greg
I use the field pod nearly everyday out of my master bedroom door with the Compact Cricket. 😆 I have the Caldwell Magnum as well for prairie doggin’ but the basic one is perfect for pesting with airguns. I still use the two bench rests I have on the covered deck off of my bedroom for best groups. I do rest my left elbow on a dresser as I shoot and hit stuff regularly out to 75 yards that is sparrow sized and a small round shop seat on rollers from Northern Tool. 😎
Greg, you can rotate the back block 180 degrees on you field pod. I think you will gain a little reach for your Baby Short.
Regards
LarryW 🙄
Finally got the Field Pod u recommended, the Shorty just makes it.
It sure beats shooting off of the tail gate when I’m at the farm pesting.
~ Greg
I hope she doesn’t take too long… I have a std Cricket .22 as well with a skeleton stock.
I think you’re going to like the Shorty in 22, it bucks the wind better.
Congrats by the way ……….
~ Greg
I posted some of those on here last year from the .30 cal but I think I deleted the photos when Photobucket started screaming at me. 😯
Clear plastic feeders and the remnants stuck nicely. 😈
Your just plan sick shooting sparrows with a 30 cal, :smilen:
Could you post pictures of how you had to scrape them off with a stick? 😯
We really need pictures of your sick 30 cal sparrow shooting, :butkick:
Mike
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Greg remember this maxim: nothing is illegal to shoot if the gun is quiet enough.
Man I wish I had song birds to shoot around my house, for some reason they are all gone…cant figure out why :butkick:
:biggrinn:
Ever since my older brother gave me his Benji pumper in the late sixties there is nothing moving in my yard.
Till today I can’t seem to figure out way is that, must be that global warming ? 😉
~ Greg