Dead Pest of the Day

[Back_Roads]

 LOL you mean birds aren't drones Last I checked birds are not real but spy drones.

[martrage]

 Harry, James , Took out g-hog ( w/ air ) # 26 today IN MY YARD ! My queen & I were finishing our coffee on the deck & she exclaimed "there's a g-hog at xxxx " . It started to head for the street but a car came up the street & it headed for our spruce tree mound. The contractor pulled in also but didn't see it .  I eased around the mound , spied it flattened against a tree trunk , frozen. I headed back to the house , grabbed the Kral NP-03 and crawled in the evergreens . It moved away , turning away from me ,giving me a great back of the head shot . I gave it two Daisy hollow points & watched the tail stand up & it pushed itself forward a foot . It's now bagged up in the freezer for a trip to the farm for the cleanup crew. Lived her since '97 , this is the first g-hog to enter the castle grounds.

[only1harry]

Good stalking and shooting Martin!  Hey it's great that you don't have to travel to find G-hogs.  They come to you now

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

I picked off a couple of backyard chippers this morning at 8:30 AM.

One was shot at 10 yards with the Umarex Multi Pump shooting Crosman 7.4 gr Destroyers @ 10 pumps. - Open Sights.

The other with the Stoeger shooting Crosman 7.4 gr. Pointed pellets ay 25 yards. - 4X mild dot scope.


Best Wishes - Tom

[kbstingwing]

My Buddy sent me these pictures of some GS's he got at his Neighbors property with his AV Avenger .25 he modified with a little kit I sent him, 2 fat pregnant females and a young one, he said there are thousands of them this year running around the valley and he's the only one with permission to hunt them, what a lucky #*$%^#@....
here the pictures he sent

[martrage]

 kbstingwing , that's some serious damage to those GS's ! He's one lucky dude to have that permission .

[martrage]

 Harry , I've got another young one to take care of over at the main farm yard shed . Spied it last evening on the return from setting my yard kill out for the cleanup crew. Hoping to get after him this evening.

[only1harry]

I picked off a couple of backyard chippers this morning at 8:30 AM.

One was shot at 10 yards with the Umarex Multi Pump shooting Crosman 7.4 gr Destroyers @ 10 pumps. - Open Sights.

The other with the Stoeger shooting Crosman 7.4 gr. Pointed pellets ay 25 yards. - 4X mild dot scope.

Good shooting Tom!  My brother is looking for a pumper for squirrels raiding his wife's bird feeders.  Distance is 12-15 yards.  Do you have any Chrono #s on your Umarex pumper (which model)?  He wants a little more power than the Crosmans or his Daisy 880.  He said he had a couple of squirrels run off after he shot them with the 880.  He just came over and we put it through my Beta Chrony and it's shooting CP/CPH 7.9 @ 680-683fps and RWS Superdome 8.3 @ 665-670fps. Not too bad.  This power level should have killed the squirrels inside 15 yards, so I think he is not taking good head shots.  He shooting open sights and refuses to put a scope on it, so I am pretty sure it's his aim, and not the Daisy 880's power, because I have taken squirrels with head shots with less powerful .177 pumpers in the high 500's to 600fps.  But... he wants more power and looking for another pumper, so any info on the Umarex would be appreciated.

[only1harry]

My Buddy sent me these pictures of some GS's he got at his Neighbors property with his AV Avenger .25 he modified with a little kit I sent him, 2 fat pregnant females and a young one, he said there are thousands of them this year running around the valley and he's the only one with permission to hunt them, what a lucky #*$%^#@....
here the pictures he sent

Yup, very lucky guy.  He killed the can too!   So I see the body/vitals shots in the pics, and I am guessing GS's are hard to get close to, so he is shooting them from distances that would be hard to get a good head shot?

[martrage]

  Guy's , my new to me MROD F&T did a number on 12 starlings & several hosps this morning at the dairy . I took time earlier to adjust the trigger down to 1 & 1/2 lb . It's windy as all get out today and shooting the CPHP's was challenging . This gun is not pellet picky , it groups any pellet I have in the 14-18gr range at 800=840 fps . I mounted the ATN as soon as I put the gun together ( shipped in 2 pieces ), zeroed it at 15 yrds, and hit the rat barn . I took a rat at 22 yrds w/ a clean eye shot .I changed out the ATN for an Athlon 4x14 FFP. Wood & metal, this feels like stepping back into "old school airgunning " I suppose, after handling a few tactical / bottle guns . More pests to keep after , as most of the starlings are this years . I saw some G-hog groups today also , guess the females haven't chased the young out yet .

[HunterWhite]

I had an opossum get into my attic, it was just nasty. Cleanup and repair the damage just completed.  I didn't expect another animal problem so soon. Just a week went by and we have squirrels in the attic. They tore through the eaves and moved in. Enough is enough!

I haven't shot my FT-Rod since 2021, so full tear down, scope off, barrel off, new O-rings, etc. I put it back together and sighted it in at 25 yards. I took the shot on this one at 30 yards by my scope parallax indicator. It was near the ground on the side of a tree.
The entry point was top of the head, exit bottom of the neck. Lights out.

I only took a picture of the first one, but I got three!

I also see that we now have a hawk nesting in the top of a tree in the back yard.


This is my first post in the hunting gate with a critter.


Hunter

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

I picked off a couple of backyard chippers this morning at 8:30 AM.

One was shot at 10 yards with the Umarex Multi Pump shooting Crosman 7.4 gr Destroyers @ 10 pumps. - Open Sights.

The other with the Stoeger shooting Crosman 7.4 gr. Pointed pellets ay 25 yards. - 4X mild dot scope.

Good shooting Tom!  My brother is looking for a pumper for squirrels raiding his wife's bird feeders.  Distance is 12-15 yards.  Do you have any Chrono #s on your Umarex pumper (which model)?  He wants a little more power than the Crosmans or his Daisy 880.  He said he had a couple of squirrels run off after he shot them with the 880.  He just came over and we put it through my Beta Chrony and it's shooting CP/CPH 7.9 @ 680-683fps and RWS Superdome 8.3 @ 665-670fps. Not too bad.  This power level should have killed the squirrels inside 15 yards, so I think he is not taking good head shots.  He shooting open sights and refuses to put a scope on it, so I am pretty sure it's his aim, and not the Daisy 880's power, because I have taken squirrels with head shots with less powerful .177 pumpers in the high 500's to 600fps.  But... he wants more power and looking for another pumper, so any info on the Umarex would be appreciated.

Hi Harry.

My Umarex multi-pump is the NXG APX.
Power wise it is in the same class as an 880.
I bought it 10 years ago when my grandsons were both 6 years old.
I got this one because it had an the automatic safety.
I use it now for chipmunks. Any thing larger I general use one of my other rifles.
I have taken a few squirrels with it, but those were all close range head shots.
This rifle would not be my first choice for hunting.
I don't have a chronograph so I can't supply that type of data.


Best Wishes - Tom

[2A Georgia]

I had an opossum get into my attic, it was just nasty. Cleanup and repair the damage just completed.  I didn't expect another animal problem so soon. Just a week went by and we have squirrels in the attic. They tore through the eaves and moved in. Enough is enough!

I haven't shot my FT-Rod since 2021, so full tear down, scope off, barrel off, new O-rings, etc. I put it back together and sighted it in at 25 yards. I took the shot on this one at 30 yards by my scope parallax indicator. It was near the ground on the side of a tree.
The entry point was top of the head, exit bottom of the neck. Lights out.

I only took a picture of the first one, but I got three!

I also see that we now have a hawk nesting in the top of a tree in the back yard.


This is my first post in the hunting gate with a critter.


Hunter

Good shooting and welcome to the hunting gate sir

[HunterWhite]

Thank you very much Charles!


Hunter

[only1harry]

I picked off a couple of backyard chippers this morning at 8:30 AM.

One was shot at 10 yards with the Umarex Multi Pump shooting Crosman 7.4 gr Destroyers @ 10 pumps. - Open Sights.

The other with the Stoeger shooting Crosman 7.4 gr. Pointed pellets ay 25 yards. - 4X mild dot scope.

Good shooting Tom!  My brother is looking for a pumper for squirrels raiding his wife's bird feeders.  Distance is 12-15 yards.  Do you have any Chrono #s on your Umarex pumper (which model)?  He wants a little more power than the Crosmans or his Daisy 880.  He said he had a couple of squirrels run off after he shot them with the 880.  He just came over and we put it through my Beta Chrony and it's shooting CP/CPH 7.9 @ 680-683fps and RWS Superdome 8.3 @ 665-670fps. Not too bad.  This power level should have killed the squirrels inside 15 yards, so I think he is not taking good head shots.  He shooting open sights and refuses to put a scope on it, so I am pretty sure it's his aim, and not the Daisy 880's power, because I have taken squirrels with head shots with less powerful .177 pumpers in the high 500's to 600fps.  But... he wants more power and looking for another pumper, so any info on the Umarex would be appreciated.

Hi Harry.

My Umarex multi-pump is the NXG APX.
Power wise it is in the same class as an 880.
I bought it 10 years ago when my grandsons were both 6 years old.
I got this one because it had an the automatic safety.
I use it now for chipmunks. Any thing larger I general use one of my other rifles.
I have taken a few squirrels with it, but those were all close range head shots.
This rifle would not be my first choice for hunting.
I don't have a chronograph so I can't supply that type of data.


Best Wishes - Tom

Thanks Tom.  Much appreciated!  I told him to look for a used 2240 with at least a 14" barrel and a good "moderator" at least 6" long (which adds to the velocity), or order one from Crosman since he doesn't want a springer or PCP.  I am trying to basically convince him that he needs a .22 with a little more FPE than the pumpers he has, if he wants them DRT all the time.... which is really not true   But I have concluded that bro is not that good a shot or hunter (he only started shooting pests last year), so .22cal will compensate some for his not so-good shot placement.

[Back_Roads]

I picked off a couple of backyard chippers this morning at 8:30 AM.

One was shot at 10 yards with the Umarex Multi Pump shooting Crosman 7.4 gr Destroyers @ 10 pumps. - Open Sights.

The other with the Stoeger shooting Crosman 7.4 gr. Pointed pellets ay 25 yards. - 4X mild dot scope.

Good shooting Tom!  My brother is looking for a pumper for squirrels raiding his wife's bird feeders.  Distance is 12-15 yards.  Do you have any Chrono #s on your Umarex pumper (which model)?  He wants a little more power than the Crosmans or his Daisy 880.  He said he had a couple of squirrels run off after he shot them with the 880.  He just came over and we put it through my Beta Chrony and it's shooting CP/CPH 7.9 @ 680-683fps and RWS Superdome 8.3 @ 665-670fps. Not too bad.  This power level should have killed the squirrels inside 15 yards, so I think he is not taking good head shots.  He shooting open sights and refuses to put a scope on it, so I am pretty sure it's his aim, and not the Daisy 880's power, because I have taken squirrels with head shots with less powerful .177 pumpers in the high 500's to 600fps.  But... he wants more power and looking for another pumper, so any info on the Umarex would be appreciated.

Hi Harry.

My Umarex multi-pump is the NXG APX.
Power wise it is in the same class as an 880.
I bought it 10 years ago when my grandsons were both 6 years old.
I got this one because it had an the automatic safety.
I use it now for chipmunks. Any thing larger I general use one of my other rifles.
I have taken a few squirrels with it, but those were all close range head shots.
This rifle would not be my first choice for hunting.
I don't have a chronograph so I can't supply that type of data.


Best Wishes - Tom

Thanks Tom.  Much appreciated!  I told him to look for a used 2240 with at least a 14" barrel and a good "moderator" at least 6" long (which adds to the velocity), or order one from Crosman since he doesn't want a springer or PCP.  I am trying to basically convince him that he needs a .22 with a little more FPE than the pumpers he has, if he wants them DRT all the time.... which is really not true   But I have concluded that bro is not that good a shot or hunter (he only started shooting pests last year), so .22cal will compensate some for his not so-good shot placement.

I would suggest a Crosman C362 !

[Mzq284]

I would suggest a Crosman C362 !

So would I!! Love mine!

[only1harry]

The 362 totally escaped me!  Thanks guys!

[Back_Roads]

The 362 totally escaped me!  Thanks guys!

Almost slipped mine too, and I have 5 including the AV edition lol. Squirrel !
 I did put the lights out on a couple HOSP yesterday, testing out the FFP Discovery 6-24 scope on the DRS, I like it, Hosp not so much

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

I eliminated more Chipmunks with the Umarex and the Stoeger this week.
I had things under control in early May but the population increased quire a bit since then.
I put out traps yesterday evening.
I had one in a trap this morning, next to my house.
10 years ago they destroyed my AC unit by chewing the electrical wires and causing it to short out.


Best Wishes - Tom