Kill a greckle for me. I want to shoot them but being in a subdivision I am slow let any sort of bullet leave the yard.
However, my dachshund did kill 3 this summer.
Im glad most of them have finaly migrated to mexico or wherever they go.
Great post you made...fun to read and insightful.
We are having a natural gas boom here in the FW area from the barnett shale, I can see a drilling rig when I walk out my front door.
A couple of my nephews are making good money working them.
I dream of going back in time and buying land with minerals on my childhood stomping grounds with the money I partied away in the 80s. lol
As to the charming grackle (and there are at least two major species) bullet be damned, a .410 is ideal and not that noisey. Neighbors closer than that? Try a .22 short with ratshot. Effective range of maybe 15 feet, but doesn't make squat for noise. I took one out with a wrist-rocket slingshot, 00 buckshot ammo.