went fishing with a .25
tonight i was shooting some groups for the contest, and i looked at the river at my right. (great miami) the river is at it’s lowest that i can remember in years, pretty much pool level. and i noticed that all the fish were hanging out in the shallows, well i grabbed my daughter and asked her if she wanted to go fishing. well my gun is .25 shooting 60 fpe and i got some kodiaks and carefully walked down to the river. i saw the carp and my btrother loves them for fish bait so i sat there with my daughter and waited to they came back to the surface. when about 3/4 of an inch was out of the water i shot about 1 inch below the water line at about 30 degree angle. first shot, first kill. much to my suprise the fish did not move i thought it was just stuned but about 20 seconds later it rolled on its side. so i shot two more, one took two shots but was at a 15 degree angle. and i went out and got the fish for my brother, they were all 24 inch long and none of the pellets went all the way through but the fish were 3 to 4 inch thick where i shot them and the pellet hit the water first, before the fish. but anyways that was a first with my condor.
i did have a daisy 880 when i was small and shot a catfish one time but it was in a small pool and could not get away and took about 25 shots.
anyone gone fishing with an air rifle?
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never shot one only caught them on rod and reel my largest to date was 43lbs it was a big bitch
While working for US Fish and Wildlife on the Malhuer Refuge in 93, I got to do control work on carp that we were trying to eradicate from Harney and Mud lake and the Blitzen tributary.
They were stragglers that the Rotenoe campaign had missed. Carp in fresh running water will find a spring and put their nose in it at the first taste of the poisen, so you miss some. We got the display pond in front of the refuge headquarters with 5 boxes of tnt going off at once. That killed 20 big dump trucks loads full.
I used the MIA with 150 Nosler Balistic tips from the front seat of a air boat. We shot them in about two feet of water but while they were skimming the surface. They were all about 8 pound fish and that .762 would blow them completly out of the water.
Later I tried it with a Car 15, and while it was just as deadly, it was not dramatic.
All sounds like fun, but the last trip was the most miserable hunting I have done. There was a slight sheet of ice the last trip and the wind chill factor would have frozen the balls off a brass monkey.
Reminissing about it years later with the Biologist in charge, Rick Vetter he said that it was probably the last time something like that would be done due to liberal politics and public opinion.
Roachcreek
I used to fish with M-80s and Silver Salutes…
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Haha nice dude!!!
Years ago I used .177 Webley Hurricane to kill carp much as you described. My shots were 10′ or less, shooting sunbathing carp from a small bridge. Most of them made long thrashing runs on the surface before turning over on thier sides.
When I bought the FWB124, I stopped using the Webley pistol. The FWB stopped every carp I ever shot, and killed a few skunks from the same bridge. I used a Daisy pump smoothbore for a while, but it wasnt accurate enough to mess around with trying to hit the brain of a carp.
In Montana shooting a firearm into the water was illegal, but none of the LEOs ever gave me hell for using a pellet rifle due to the “trash fish” classification of Carp back then. It was legal to use a bow and arrow, speargun, pitchfork or gaff to harvest them. Even intentional snagging was permitted in the rulebook, and there was an endless supply of carp to kill.
Due to this, they turned the other cheek to my activities.
The carp were so thick at times in the shallow bays, we would canoe out into them and hundreds of fish would be swarming around the boat, bumping the bottom. The canoe would get pushed around quite a bit.
Now that I think about it, that probably was a little more dangerous than I realized. 😯
The law in CA is much…. restricted, nobody dare to use the airguns to fish 😆 , unless those individual know good place ti fish with airguns.
I always making fun with my brother in-law about fishing with airguns, he really want to try but I don’t 😆 , just don’t want to get trouble 😆
Great shooting edward.
yep ! got some carp with a discovery in .177. kind of cool !
yep ! got some carp with a discovery in .177. kind of cool !
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i get strange looks and fish and game calls in to ask questions here in nj. its legal but even fish and game rarely see guys with bows, generators and lights coming across the lakes! lmao