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454 Big Block Chevy · « **on:** September 10, 2010, 01:07:42 PM »

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i'm off for a few days... (family emergency type stuff.....) and i've beenw atching the nutters dilligently. i've seen at least 3 today... that were limping.... do i shoot them??? there easy targets... but i don't know if i want to take them out of breeding capability... its like... they don't seem to be in pain... at least not to me... they seem to be functioning fine. i'm torn.....

454 Big Block Chevy · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2010, 01:09:30 PM »

i really have to find the person/kid/parent/bad role model..... someone is using a pumper or low powered chinese gun to shoot at these things... and there just injuring... however, i have found a nutter... who had a .22 predator embedded in its shoulder blade..... and i do claim that one.

Jonesin · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2010, 01:53:40 PM »

Just curious how you know it was a low powered AG injuring...did you harvest one and find a wound/pellet? Where are they being hit/wounds located? Did this jsut start recently? Any new neighbors or new AG'ers in the area?

shadow · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2010, 02:07:06 PM »

I think I would let them ride if their getting around ok, do some breeding while they still can. They may have tangled with another critter or nutter and limped away with a war wound, chick's dig scar's lol. Ed

454 Big Block Chevy · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2010, 02:17:18 PM »

i've killed about 8 nutters, with cheap pointed pellets embeded unde the skin. bb's, and even wadcutter pellets.

timegoat · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2010, 05:19:35 PM »

Sounds like they're running down south from my shots.

454 Big Block Chevy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2010, 05:48:40 PM »

One of the two nutters i just shot, had a pellet in its front shoulder... it was very clearly a .177 crosman destroyer... other than bloodshot, the nutter is in pretty good shape. was a very very large female. in fact, definatly the largest nutter this year.

here is the pellet... barely deformed at all... in fact you could straighten the skirt, and shooot it again....

here's the damage it did under the skin.

the nutter is quartered out, and in the freezer now, minus the front shoulder area... not temping that part. but you can clearly see, what under powered air guns, at to far a distance does.

Jman · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2010, 06:12:48 PM »

wow, even in my remington pumper those destroyers open up. Im guessing a 1377 pistol on a couple of pumps as the culprit...

dk1677 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2010, 06:15:44 PM »

Any kids around?

Perry · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2010, 06:31:15 PM »

Very little damage to the head of that pellet. My guess is a pistol. My pump rifles will put a huge hole in a nutter and leave the pellet looking like a mushroom.

454 Big Block Chevy · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2010, 07:43:22 PM »

i just had a rage fueled discussion with the wife... i'm getting quite pi$$ed about the poor nutters... sure i kill a lot of them, but they are destroying my pecan tree, my eaves, and tearing up my feeder... i've replaced it twice now, and its a wire cage.... not even a wood one. but, at the same time, i am also a licensed hunter, and am in the current nutter season... not that thats an excuse to shoot nutters... but i make sure i cleanly kill them, and not injure the little SOB's...

longislandhunter · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2010, 08:17:20 PM »

I agree with Shadow, if the limping nutters are able to "do their thing" then I'd let em pass. Of course if you are looking to add more meat to the freezer then I say they are fair game just like the nutters that don't limp

Jeff

Carl · « **Reply #12 on:** September 10, 2010, 08:25:54 PM »

If your gonna shoot the squirrels anyway cull the weak and injured first.

454 Big Block Chevy · « **Reply #13 on:** September 10, 2010, 08:55:25 PM »

i'm really weary of eating a critter, thats got any kind of "rot" or such... this one was just bloodclot, so i was able to just cut around it basically. but i hate to see anything "limping" or dragging or such.

Carl · « **Reply #14 on:** September 10, 2010, 09:13:45 PM »

I didn't say eat them I said to cull them, it is a faster death via predator then starvation/disease.
You know, that reads harsh but I don't mean it that way.
Carl

Jman · « **Reply #15 on:** September 10, 2010, 09:28:37 PM »

The person shooting them obviously doesnt try and recover what he shoots...a limping squirrel is not that fast!

Jonesin · « **Reply #16 on:** September 10, 2010, 10:02:05 PM »

Gotta agree, take them out. Suffering bpthers me but I have taken squirrels with my weak B3 with a decent shot placement. From your descriptions it sounds like a uninformed kid or an adult with little to no ethics. Keep your eyes peeled. As for discussions with the wife, pick your battles. Mine is anti-hunting but she accepts me for who I am and I accept her for who she is. She doesn't ask what we're eating and I don't tell!! "-)

Jman · « **Reply #17 on:** September 10, 2010, 10:39:48 PM »

Whoever it is may just be trying to "sting" the squirrels also, and thinks the limpings just from the sting...

RWSshooter · « **Reply #18 on:** September 10, 2010, 11:39:52 PM »

I like the way you think Big Block!...My wife feels the same way as yours. Hang in there, we're all in this together.

oldpink · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2010, 12:56:45 AM »

Sounds like either a kid who doesn't know better or a slob hunter who knows better, but just doesn't care.
The first is excusable, while the latter is positively disgusting.

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