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FOR THE BIRDS - City plans to attack 60,000 to 80,000
'murder of crows'
Springfield News-Sun ^
| December 28, 2003
| Samntha Sommers
Posted on 12/28/2003 11:46:43 AM PST by UnklGene
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To: UnklGene
Put up a Tippi Hedren scare crow and wa la... bird catcher extrodinaire; bird problem-o gone.
Trajan88
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posted on
12/28/2003 1:05:12 PM PST
by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: UnklGene
Sounds like my front yard, yesterday. It was unbelievable, except these are ravens, I think. Some of the bigger ones would make a decent meal for 4 people.
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posted on
12/28/2003 1:18:53 PM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
(Happy Iraqi Independence Day!!!!)
To: Hoof Hearted
"so even if you miss the bird you are shooting at, there's still a pretty good chance you'll still kill someone or something before the bullet lands."
Hunters do not use rifles to shoot flying birds just because of your worries. Safe shooting includes knowing what the backstand of your target is.
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posted on
12/28/2003 1:46:03 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
To: B4Ranch
They need to get a few Walther and Feinwerbau 177 cal air rifles and some determined neighborhood kids and get to work.
Put them in the second floor windows of homes and buildings and tell them to fire at will.
Pretty soon they will have to have endloaders to pick up all the dead flying rats.
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posted on
12/28/2003 2:28:36 PM PST
by
Armedanddangerous
(The first rule of gunfighting is to have a gun...more than one, if possible..)
To: Armedanddangerous
It will come to something like that eventually.
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posted on
12/28/2003 3:14:24 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
To: Abcdefg
.22 ammo is cheap, shooting birds is fun. I've heard that crows have a tough hide and a .22 won't do the job unless at close range. Sound true?
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posted on
12/28/2003 3:17:16 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.)
To: UnklGene
Good movie!
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posted on
12/28/2003 3:23:16 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.)
To: Abcdefg
Are you sure an air rifle will kill a crow? A few years ago, PBS or National Geographic aired an experiment in England using air rifles (pellet guns) to thin 'murders of crows'. No matter how many they killed, approximately the same original number would return the following year. The air rifles worked fine. One shot, one dead crow.
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posted on
12/28/2003 3:45:00 PM PST
by
UnklGene
To: Abcdefg
Hahaha........I was just thinking the same thing! Nothing like cracking off a .22 Mag round at those beady-eyed, disease-carrying, garden-raiding scavengers, sitting on a tree limb with their damned tongues hanging out of their beaks. CAW! CAW! CAW! *CRACK* *THUMP* Hahahahahaha But I'd want to use a decent 12 gauge if I was going for sheer numbers.
Ah, I'm in a pleasant mood now. :-)
To: UnklGene
Set a $1 bounty per crow and let the citizens take care of the problem.
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posted on
12/28/2003 3:56:15 PM PST
by
HP8753
(My cat doesn't see the humor in static electricity.... I ,on the other hand, find it funny!!)
To: MadelineZapeezda; Trajan88
I was out where The Birds was filmed last summer, and there was Tippi!
Signing pictures and making a couple of bucks.
We had her sign our dashboard...
And just to prove it, here she Is:
Also we had a job once and part of it was plinking the Crows that invaded the dumpster...and carrying a pretty powerful rifle when working on the watersystem up the hill cause the bears were biting the plastic pipe...LOL
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