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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => Hunting Gate => Topic started by: Delekhan Wu on October 20, 2012, 07:44:40 AM
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Now i know most of you guys probably kill squirrels, c-rats, birds ,iguanas and other types of game, but whats your most unusual kill? Mines or in fact would be my girl friends bird head shot with our FX Air Gladiator MK2... we were by my pals chicken farm and he was telling us of the bird harassing his chickens.Now Kimberly aint the best shot, but a 20 yards moving target among chickens....was either skill or luck...(I say luck, but when she tells it, sounds like she a zen master)....I unfortunately got a chicken in the head in which my pal told me i was killing his profits...
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Human... just kidding. For me, probably a common lizzard.
edited due to language violation.
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A rooster at the owners request.
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a beer can. what made it unusual was that it was a full beer, and i usually drink beer, not shoot it! lol
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grasshopper at 17 yards. it was one of those days where you see nothing and youre frustrated.
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A large fly. My friends and I had just finished shooting down all the spent shotgun shells at 50 yards. The shooting haven't stopped so we went back to our paper targets. I noticed a single hole away from my cluster of holes at the 30 yard target. Looking through the scope I see a fly....I thought what the heck I'll give it a shot (Pun intended). Shot but don't know if I got it. Awhile later we went to check our targets and I see 3 fly legs around the hole. Got that fly!!! ha ha
I had read someone here shot wasps or bees in mid-air with their airgun.
Forgot to mention....it was a bench rested shot.
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Big spider in my case.
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I had read someone here shot wasps or bees in mid-air with their airgun.
1377 and 1322 taking out Carpenter Bees mid flight. Really impressed my son when I went 3 for 3 right off the bat.
Squirrel...with my Dragon Slayer. He won't be waking me up any more while I deer hunt.
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Dragon fly's resting on ends of sticks .... Fun challenge right there !
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lizzards, they are quick and keep your skills sharp
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TIME! Oh wait, you said most UNusual... ;D
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A tortoise. :'(
She was my pet actually. One of my dogs got a hold of her and chewed half of her plastron. My .22 Whisper was the most powerful weapon I had that I could put her out of her misery with quietly in my back yard.
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a beer can. what made it unusual was that it was a full beer, and i usually drink beer, not shoot it! lol
Never and i do say never.. Shoot a good beer...lol
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a beer can. what made it unusual was that it was a full beer, and i usually drink beer, not shoot it! lol
Never and i do say never.. Shoot a good beer...lol
He didn't say it was a GOOD beer!
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Now i know most of you guys probably kill squirrels, c-rats, birds ,iguanas and other types of game, but whats your most unusual kill?
I could tell you, but the statute of limitations hasn't run out yet - LOL !
Seriously, my most unusual kill was a Bumblebee in flight, no kidding. Let me explain.
My 13 year old grandson was visiting and we were plinking in the backyard. He was using his .22 Nitro Venom and I was shooting my .22 Hatsan 125 TH. Naturally, he got competitive and challenged me. There were some Bumblebees flying around. So, I said "beat this" and snapped the rifle up and fired in the direction of the bees, about 15 ft away. To my surprise, I hit one of them ( totally by accident ). For the next half-hour, he kept trying to hit a Bumblebee and it was hilarious to watch.
Don't mess with Grandpa !
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I too get that ADDH ;) thing when plinking paper,carpenter bees,bumblebee,wasp you name it they all
fall into"target" fodder.Punching flies thru 1/8" plywood @ 10m is pretty entertaining,far from "easy"
but great for grouping practice ;D
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Now i know most of you guys probably kill squirrels, c-rats, birds ,iguanas and other types of game, but whats your most unusual kill?
I could tell you, but the statute of limitations hasn't run out yet - LOL !
Seriously, my most unusual kill was a Bumblebee in flight, no kidding. Let me explain.
My 13 year old grandson was visiting and we were plinking in the backyard. He was using his .22 Nitro Venom and I was shooting my .22 Hatsan 125 TH. Naturally, he got competitive and challenged me. There were some Bumblebees flying around. So, I said "beat this" and snapped the rifle up and fired in the direction of the bees, about 15 ft away. To my surprise, I hit one of them ( totally by accident ). For the next half-hour, he kept trying to hit a Bumblebee and it was hilarious to watch.
Don't mess with Grandpa !
I read its a great way to home in your skills by shooting at insects, i tried it at times and it reguire a lotta concentration , its great that you have a healthy competition with your grandson, its keeps ya young at heart ;D ;D ;D
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I could tell you, but the statute of limitations hasn't run out yet - LOL !
Seriously, my most unusual kill was a Bumblebee in flight, no kidding. Let me explain.
My 13 year old grandson was visiting and we were plinking in the backyard. He was using his .22 Nitro Venom and I was shooting my .22 Hatsan 125 TH. Naturally, he got competitive and challenged me. There were some Bumblebees flying around. So, I said "beat this" and snapped the rifle up and fired in the direction of the bees, about 15 ft away. To my surprise, I hit one of them ( totally by accident ). For the next half-hour, he kept trying to hit a Bumblebee and it was hilarious to watch.
Don't mess with Grandpa !
Great story. You should have told him he kept missing because he had his tongue held in the wrong place. That's what my grandfather told me once.
If you never told him that was an accident then you know he went around bragging about how great of a shot his grandpa was. lol
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If you never told him that was an accident then you know he went around bragging about how great of a shot his grandpa was. lol
Of course not, I have to maintain my "legendary status" - LOL !
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Actually more my mother than me. When I was a kid (long ago and far away) some of the neighbors thought the best way to "walk" their dogs was to let them out so they could poop in other peoples yards.
When they showed up to do "business" in our yard my mother and I would shoot them in the arse with an old Daisy BB gun. It was too weak to penetrate as you could always see the bb bounce off, but it must have stung a LOT because they would go from walking to full out run in under a second, and almost always never came back.
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Wasn't a kill, but still pretty unusual...
I have a pear tree in my yard, and I like to gather unripened pears that have fallen to use for target practice. One morning I head outside to do some shooting, and take a shot at a pear from 20 yards. I walk up to inspect the pear, and low and behold, I shot the wings off of a fly that must have landed on it right before I fired. There it was, a wingless fly crawling around just fine aside from the missing wings. Total fluke. I felt like I was in the film "Wanted"!
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A crab...
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Wasn't a kill, but still pretty unusual...
I have a pear tree in my yard, and I like to gather unripened pears that have fallen to use for target practice. One morning I head outside to do some shooting, and take a shot at a pear from 20 yards. I walk up to inspect the pear, and low and behold, I shot the wings off of a fly that must have landed on it right before I fired. There it was, a wingless fly crawling around just fine aside from the missing wings. Total fluke. I felt like I was in the film "Wanted"!
Wanted was a really great picture.....wish i had those gun skills :P
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Wanted was a really great picture.....wish i had those gun skills :P
Try Bumblebees in flight - "legendary" - LOL !
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Carpenter Bees look just like their stinging bumble cousins,they fly abit slower and tend to hover
which makes them perfect sighting targets
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A fox squirrel that decided to hop on my pellet trap -- while I was paper-target shooting the pellet trap.
Another time, I got a fox squirrel that had blue eyes. Very weird. I'm assuming it must've been partially or fully blind.
This summer, I saw the first & only grey squirrel in my entire life. But, I didn't shoot it, and let it go about its day, since it was rare for me. It was light grey with a pure white belly.
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Copperhead snake in NY - with Crosman 760 .177 pumber in '82 or '83 30yrs ago. I even remeber the Beeman Silver Jet (heavy) pellets I was using. They came in a blue and silver square box.
Harry
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got a 15lb carp in the head
We were fishing and frog hunting with my Condor
I tossed a bag of popcorn over board and watched the fish getting them
I kept seeing a big ring when this one kept hitting water surface around 20 yards out
I told my brother watch I will shoot this fish
He laughed I saw a ring and POP next thing I know a carp floats up with a hole through upper lip and head
LOL never thought I would actually hit the fish . figured I would screw around deff a fun time hahaha
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As a teenager a friend and I got an alligator gar with our pellet guns. He was using a Crosman 1077 and I had a Benji 397. Don't know what he weighed, but he was about as long as my arm from shoulder to finger tip. Without going into too much detail, needless to say a lot of shots were fired and the animal suffered pretty bad. We did manage to recover it- and still discarded it anway. Pretty sad too, tried to act tough but on the inside I knew it was wrong and it made me sick. Worst part about it, is that's legal- cause it was a gar =(
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got a 15lb carp in the head
We were fishing and frog hunting with my Condor
I tossed a bag of popcorn over board and watched the fish getting them
I kept seeing a big ring when this one kept hitting water surface around 20 yards out
I told my brother watch I will shoot this fish
He laughed I saw a ring and POP next thing I know a carp floats up with a hole through upper lip and head
LOL never thought I would actually hit the fish . figured I would screw around deff a fun time hahaha
Fishing with a air rifle??? hummm..... now thats intresting
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As a teenager a friend and I got an alligator gar with our pellet guns. He was using a Crosman 1077 and I had a Benji 397. Don't know what he weighed, but he was about as long as my arm from shoulder to finger tip. Without going into too much detail, needless to say a lot of shots were fired and the animal suffered pretty bad. We did manage to recover it- and still discarded it anway. Pretty sad too, tried to act tough but on the inside I knew it was wrong and it made me sick. Worst part about it, is that's legal- cause it was a gar =(
Now A Gator is preety unusal, and when i was smaller i shot at some to my suprise i though their skin was like bulletproof...pellets used to make a sound like (When you hit wood) a thud...in all not a bad kill
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Alligator gar, brother. The fish, not the lizard
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got a 15lb carp in the head
We were fishing and frog hunting with my Condor
I tossed a bag of popcorn over board and watched the fish getting them
I kept seeing a big ring when this one kept hitting water surface around 20 yards out
I told my brother watch I will shoot this fish
He laughed I saw a ring and POP next thing I know a carp floats up with a hole through upper lip and head
LOL never thought I would actually hit the fish . figured I would screw around deff a fun time hahaha
Fishing with a air rifle??? hummm..... now thats intresting
We were out Bass fishing with poles and reels but also frog hunting with the condor
I really never figured I would hit the fish at all LOL
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Years back I was doing some cross training at FT. Sill OK, and during the summer months just as it started to cool down you could position yourself along the tank trails next to a water source and watch hundreds of tarantulas make their way across the road to the water. We would sit in the back of a pickup and pop them with a variety of air rifles purchased from the local Wally World. Those SOB's where MEAN, you get too close and they would jump at you and chase you, and these aren't small we're talking 3.5 - 4 inches across.
That my friend would require me wearing an adult diaper and carrying a flame thrower LOL
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Sounds like good times, targeting tarantulas. I've been to Sill before, and noticed the tarantulas, too. I've never been to another place where they were so common! BTW nice shot on the carp, crowpopper. I feel like the gar get an unfair rep, but those carp are getting bad these days.
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Years back I was doing some cross training at FT. Sill OK, and during the summer months just as it started to cool down you could position yourself along the tank trails next to a water source and watch hundreds of tarantulas make their way across the road to the water. We would sit in the back of a pickup and pop them with a variety of air rifles purchased from the local Wally World. Those SOB's where MEAN, you get too close and they would jump at you and chase you, and these aren't small we're talking 3.5 - 4 inches across.
Wow, where's a Ma Deuce when you need one?
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a beer can. what made it unusual was that it was a full beer, and i usually drink beer, not shoot it! lol
Haha!
Someone had left a keystone light in the cooler at my family's cabin a while back. None of us drink keystone and it had been in there for who knows how long. We decided to shake it up, and shoot it with a polymag. The results were well worth it.
I usually kill the beer before the can, but that keystone was the exception.
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A giant beetle on my bathroom floor with my Crosman 357... took a couple shots but you KNOW you hit it when the legs are all thats left! 8)
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This summer, I saw the first & only grey squirrel in my entire life. But, I didn't shoot it, and let it go about its day, since it was rare for me. It was light grey with a pure white belly.
I just had to quote that... I'd feel the same way about a Fox.
Back on topic, I haven't shot anything unusual...
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Alligator gar, brother. The fish, not the lizard
Wha???
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Alligator gar, brother. The fish, not the lizard
Wha???
Gar are cool looking haha ... btw not me in the picture ... found it online haha
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That gar looks delicious. Are they boney? We don't get any of those up here in Iowa, lol.
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Alligator gar, brother. The fish, not the lizard
Wha???
Gar are cool looking haha ... btw not me in the picture ... found it online haha
Ok my confusion, i didnt know its a fish....nice pic...wondering how well does it cook?
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alligator gar are pretty good if you cook em up fresh. if you freeze it, the meat turns into mush though. so you pretty much have to cook it as soon as you catch it, or use it to make some croquettes or something like that. also they are pretty hard to clean, the skin is like armor and you have to open em from the back. i used to use tin shears to do it, the skin is that tough. or you can break em open with a screwdriver but it tears the meat up a little
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That gar looks delicious. Are they boney? We don't get any of those up here in Iowa, lol.
I've caught them in the Mississippi River backwaters (IL side) around Savana, IL.
Maybe they are not too common but they are around.
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i can say from bow fishing that the gar have exceptional sharp teeth. i just barely grazed one once and it cut me pretty good. like a razor blade. fingers beware lol :D ;D
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The most unusual was probably a Lamprey Eel that I killed with my old Benjamin Pump back when I was a kid. Then there was the time that Daddy got me and my little brother to kill our flock of Guinea Fowl. About 40 of them. They went up to roost right before dark every evening in a big tree in our back yard. We would shoot the ones on the lower limbs and the others would get spooked and work their way up to higher branches. After a couple of evenings the remaining ones just went right to the top of the tree. We had to climb the tree after dark so they wouldn't fly out to another tree. We took turns shining the light and shooting. Daddy got really mad because a couple of them werent good head shots and when they hit the ground they ran way up under the shed where they were unrecoverable. Stunk the area up for a few days. We also killed any and all manner of small game and pests native to Louisiana.
Richard
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alligator gar are pretty good if you cook em up fresh. if you freeze it, the meat turns into mush though. so you pretty much have to cook it as soon as you catch it, or use it to make some croquettes or something like that. also they are pretty hard to clean, the skin is like armor and you have to open em from the back. i used to use tin shears to do it, the skin is that tough. or you can break em open with a screwdriver but it tears the meat up a little
MMMMMM!!!! Gar Crowuettes sounds DEEEEELISH!!! Cant say I'll see many gar in the backyard tho... hahah ;D ;D
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most unusual kill with my air rifle was my slush fund lol :D ;D
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In my early 20's, me and a buddy were stalking some squirells and bunnys after work, and trying to get within air pistol range (i had 1377 and he had a 1960's era crosman .22 pump pistol). Needless to say we were going through some tall grass and brush on a hot july afternoon when we both heard that terrifying rattle!!! OHHH #%*+!!!!! My friend was 1 pace from stepping on a 6foot rattle snake who was VERY perturbed of at us. So we did what any young guys with loaded pellet pistols hunting "stuff" would do!!! Started shooting him! We were a safe distance of about 5 or 6 feet away and i pumped a .177 into his head which seemd to really tick him off, he made a blond strike then charged at me for about a few seconds and chased me. Then he balled up and kept rattling like crazy, the fastest rattle id ever heard! So we said Frig no, your not going to try and attack us mr rattle snake!! So we pumped 8 or 10 more shots jnto his head until you could see daylight through the top os his head down his throat about the size of a quater. Once he stopped moving and burried his head under a coil, we thought he was dead. So i reached out slow and poked him with my muzzle and the sucker started rattling again!!!!! So wekept shooting him until he stopped moving again and i did the same as before, poked him with my pistol and quickly frabbed the head and pinched his mouthshut. It must have been nerves or left over impulses, because that sucker coiled around my arm and started squeezing, and he was pretty darn strong to boot! We brought the snake car as into the shop and scared the bejeezus out of my old boss. I was holding the head and body and had mu buddy shake the tail to scare old pat. Hahah. Anyway, we got yelled at and told to get that thing the F outa the shop. So we figured; killed it, might as well eat it. So lopped off the head, we skinned it then realized this 15lb snake had thousands of ribs, and we didnt know how to cook it. So we left it out in the field and it was gone in the morning. Coyotes probably munched on him. I have a really cool rattle snake skin pinned up on my wall now though, haha. Atleast we didnt get bit and we ddint have to worry about any customers getting a fatal/ near fatal bite from that man killer ratt-luh! Never seen such a tough snake in my life, and he was daygum strong too!!
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Yep it was the nerves. Snakes, turtles, gators, ect all react to touch awhile after they are dead. Lop the head off and toss the body in a fire and it will put on one heck of a show even after the head has been off for a few minutes.
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Our Jack-O-Lantern! Seriously, the M-Rod is making toast of that thing right now! I guess as far as a live thing, a fly that lit on my target backing when shooting the Weihrauch back this summer. Hit right where the fly lit but no sign if I did hit it or scared the Bageezus out of it.
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wilson's snipe for me,
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Got a glancing shot on a water mocassin with a B3 that took about 6 inches of skin off. Just after that I caught one just behind the head with a gig. Lopped it's head off but it was still squirming an hour later. Cut off the head and bury it.
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Got a glancing shot on a water mocassin with a B3 that took about 6 inches of skin off. Just after that I caught one just behind the head with a gig. Lopped it's head off but it was still squirming an hour later. Cut off the head and bury it.
NICE!!