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Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 9, 2006 21:54:24 GMT -5
It seems a tradition for me and people I associate with to target these little guys during turkey season and bluegill fishing in the spring.
I don't know why, but spring time always finds me carrying a 22 rifle everywhere I go in hopes of finding a few blackbirds.
Anyone else?
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Post by jimiowa on Apr 9, 2006 22:32:01 GMT -5
Nope! You would not want to do that in Iowa!!
They are classified as a song bird and could net you a healthy fine.
Though when I was in Jr High there was an Italian Tailor named Mastrioni who was fond of Blackbird pie.
He also sold a lot of Italian Shotguns in my home town.
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Post by stumpjumper on Apr 10, 2006 8:14:25 GMT -5
Dang Red. Doesn't your state have any huntin' regulations ? ;D Well, I'm gonna head back yonder an git me a mess a blackbirds. If'n I can't get me any, I'll just go sink the next thing that starts swimmin' across that pond over there.   .....  |
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Post by bounce on Apr 10, 2006 8:43:20 GMT -5
Try shooting little turttle heads off Red!!
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Post by dakota on Apr 10, 2006 12:53:53 GMT -5
Where I grew up there were a lot of purple grackles. We called them 'black birds' and they were probably #1 target for us.
We never shot the true black birds - i.e. red wing black birds. I think that their food is primarily mosquitos. The state I was in (SD) also classified them as off limits - song birds.
I hate mosquitos and would not shoot birds that eat them.
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Post by calsibley on Apr 10, 2006 17:09:51 GMT -5
If I shot redwing blackbirds I sure as hell wouldn't tell anyone about it. Aw c'mon Red, find something else to blast, not those cute little beggars. I'm going to change my mind and suggest you buy a Norinco knockoff of our M16. At least the little redwing blackbirds would have a chance. Best wishes.
Cal - Montreal
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Post by jimiowa on Apr 10, 2006 19:09:18 GMT -5
Try shooting little turttle heads off Red!! Well at least Bounce Turtles could be classified as varmints. Look at all the fingerling fish they eat. I will fess up to spending some of my summers in my teens shooting them with my uncles 22. Course it`s also illegal, but my uncle claimed on his property there was no law against controlling nusiance varmints? Farmers got to protect his stock and he paid good money to stock that pond. |
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 10, 2006 19:46:54 GMT -5
I'm going to change my mind and suggest you buy a Norinco knockoff of our M16. At least the little redwing blackbirds would have a chance. or my sks idea lol  |
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Post by Jack on Apr 10, 2006 23:05:06 GMT -5
Actually, Red, you got a purty good idea there. Find a good dock where you can stand there with your SKS and wait for a turtle to pop up. Throw the SKS at the turtle- you might get lucky  |
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Post by Bill on Apr 10, 2006 23:20:52 GMT -5
Oh Ok I get it, Red your just doing this to see what kind of reaction your going to get arn't you.  I vote for Jacks Idea, throw the SKS at the turtles. If you tye a rope onto the trigger gaurd you can retrive it and throw it again. ;D ;D ;D Bet you get more turtles that way than shooting at them with a SKS |
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Post by bounce on Apr 11, 2006 1:26:35 GMT -5
Don't know if you would get it see their little head go flying though if you are killing them buy thoughing a SKS at them?
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Post by klsm54 on Apr 11, 2006 18:20:54 GMT -5
There was a day, in Pennsylvania, when you were allowed to shoot Grackles and Starlings. Of course you could shoot chipmunks too. Now I think everything is protected. But Red-Winged Blackbirds have always been on the songbird list. What sport would they be anyway? If you walk by any patch of cat-tails they are squacking right over your head, hell you could dust 'em with a 22 pistol and snake shot.... I'll tell one on myself though, just so Red won't feel so lonely... ;D I have a row of spruce trees on the west side of my yard that attract nesting grackles by the dozens. They just love to fly out of those trees and over my house and driveway. Seems that the time it takes for a grackles bowels to let loose after taking off is in direct proportion to the distance from those spruce trees to my house and driveway....  So I have really grown to hate those purpleish black b*&t*rds. Since town is directly west of me, shooting in that direction, into the tops of 50-60 ft. high trees, isn't really safe. But there is nothing behind my house to worry about. So one day I get out my telescoping golf ball retriever and dump a nest of young grackles that was built just low enough for me to reach. Took one of the young'uns and tied a string around it's leg, threw the string over a limb on a quaking aspen behind the house, just outside my shed. Got in the shed with my 22 and jerked the string if the li'l crapper would quit squaking. Boy did that screeching baby bird fire up those grackles. They came flying in from every direction and landed in that aspen tree to see what was going on. I must have shot 2 dozen of them before the little tyke got to weak to be of any use. So I went back in the house. About 10 minutes later I hear a car in the driveway, it's the freakin' cops. Holy Crap! One of my neighbors called the police to report me shooting trash birds in my own yard. What had the world come to? I had probably fired at least 1000 rounds from my 22 in that yard over a 30 year period, and now my neighbors decide that I shouldn't do that anymore... Oh well, technically I was shooting too close to at least 4 other houses, so that was my last grackle slaughter...  Oh the cop? He was only there because he got called, just told me it might be a good idea to stop shooting tweeties in the yard, since somebody didn't seem to like it. But if you want to attract grackles, a baby one tied over a tree limb will do the trick.................  ;D ;D |
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 11, 2006 19:42:34 GMT -5
Oh Ok I get it, Red your just doing this to see what kind of reaction your going to get arn't you. Actually I was just wanting to get the small game forum a new thread in the slow part of the year. This just happened to come to my mind first. |
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Post by twomoons on Apr 18, 2006 11:31:24 GMT -5
When my grandmother did laundry in the summer my job was to sit out and shoot blackbirds to keep them from decorating the clean laundry. They might have been protected by the state, but not by grandma.
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Post by jabba on Apr 19, 2006 6:01:43 GMT -5
Grackles and Starlings as well as cowbirds are not only not protected in Indiana but are specificazlly listed as being considered non-native invaders and thus... open for control. I think I am the ONLY person in the state that shoots them though because DAMN there are a lot of them.
My pellet gun is wore out too... I have hit 3 or 4 this year without killing one.
I gues it's time for a new pellet rifle.
Jabba
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Oh the cop? He was only there because he got called, just told me it might be a good idea to stop shooting tweeties in the yard, since somebody didn't seem to like it. 
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