Most unusal Kill with your air rifle?

[HeadOfPoland]

Alligator gar, brother.  The fish, not the lizard

Wha???

Gar are cool looking haha ... btw not me in the picture ... found it online haha

[Airik]

That gar looks delicious.  Are they boney?  We don't get any of those up here in Iowa, lol.

[Delekhan Wu]

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?

[Bryan Heimann]

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

[Tater]

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.

[aack73]

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

[amb5500c]

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

[HeadOfPoland]

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

[aack73]

most unusual kill with my air rifle was my slush fund lol

[Brewerja]

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!!

[Sqrl Klr]

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.

[mtsheron70]

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.

[Mo.sniper342]

wilson's snipe for me,

[dust]

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.

[HeadOfPoland]

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!!