Ruger 10/22 firing bulk ammo grackle kill 100+ yards

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i do the same with Blue-jays here.....no 100y shots.....there like a gang of angry teenagers!!!...they run all my nice birds off!!!....nice shot btw!!!!
 
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Under conditions ,they are legal to hunt in most any states ,deal with it . Some thought should be put into the way it was shot. Off a powerline or telephone or cable with what knowledge of what was down range. Even a 22 can do damage when hitting someone 1/2 or 1 mile mile down range . He could sit his rear in a stand and shoot to the ground with the .22lr .
 
Grackles are nefarious disease carrying pests that many towns and cities in Texas are invaded by every year. Local codes prohibit discharging firearms in these places and they have resorted to nets, propane cannons and other methods to discourage their nesting habits. Out in the country we regularly discharge shotguns to keep them away BUT (and you knew there was a but coming, huh?) shooting off a utility line isn't the smartest move. Besides not knowing where your .22 bullet will end up, severing an electrical or telephone line is annoying to your fellow citizens. We had a neighbor about 1/2 mile away that thought it great to teach his kids to shoot birds off the utility lines. After severing one telephone wire and one electrical line he was billed by both utilities for the repair which was north of $5000 per line.
 
Can't shoot a poor little bird, for no reason, and without knowing where the bullet landed.
 
1. It's a .22. People that claim of significant damages from a ballistic .22 can cite sources, else it's BS.

2. Pest bird, on his property. He can do what he wants with it, and all the tightey-whitied moral superiority in the world matters not one bit.

3. Without fail, people that cite "high road" are those furthest from it.

Peace.
 
As a suggestion to the OP, how about a decent quality air rifle at closer range instead of the risky .22?

That was still a good "Hail Mary" shot. Had something similar years ago while hunting rabbits in January. Cold as a well-digger's heart with several inches of snow topped with a half inch of ice walking on some RR tracks. Had a bunny hop out to the right-hand side of the tracks and give me a perfect profile. Shucked out the lo-brass #6 shell in the chamber and put in a hi-brass #4, drew down and held about halfway between head and eartips and just in front. When I fired, he just flopped over! Ran like a madman on that bloody ice, racking in another round (just in case) and claimed my prize. Paced it off back to where I had been and it was just over 40 yds. Weirdest thing was that, when I cleaned the rabbit, there was no shot in the body anywhere!
Go figure!
 
Killing because you are annoyed is disgusting. I don't see this as being very "high road".

Reminds me of a girl who told me that wearing leather was disgusting. don't know if she is high road or low road, but that is not a road I want to be on.

Humans can and always will cause animal deaths. I assume you live in a treetop, because if you live on land that has been cleared off and structures built on it, then some animals died because of lost habitat. Some people might find killing animals for "comfort" disgusting.

The word disgusting is based on ones personal beliefs and opinions. Keep things in prespective.
 
I have no neighbors to speak of and it was actually atop the pole and not on a wire. You only have to drop one or two for the other 100 or so to bug out. Owl decoys don't work. Grackles destroy nests of other birds like dove, so they just don't annoy me, they mess with ranch income derived from day dove hunts, etc.
 
you guys can attack me for my personal opinion all you want. It doesn't change my stance that killing something because you don't like the noise it makes is wrong.

I've cleared grackles myself without killing them.
 
It's not just the noise regarding grackles. I don't necessarily disagree with your position, but it's more than noise. They are a destructive force to a rancher.
 
If he was that far away, it wasn't the noise that it makes that irritated him to the point of shooting it, obviously. And pests are normally eradicated by many methods, some articles point to using falcons to take them down, which would probably be by many to be considered to be hunting for "sport'', and done because of the grackles status as a pest.

No matter what you do, or how you do it, there will be critics. Nice shot. I shot many a starling as a kid growing up in Kansas, but I could safely use my .22 as our nearest neighbor was five miles or more in every direction. And I too, shot them for the pests that they are. Didn't eat them, so I guess that would make my guilty of "sport hunting"? Ah well...I suppose I'll survive all the harsh judgements...
 
Beats the holy hell out of poisoning pests...I'll say that. Poison, that is the worst and should be reserved for insects. I don't even like poisoning rats and mice (for one thing dogs and cats catch them, eat them, and are in turn poisoned). I don't like those glue traps. BUT, I am all about the good old fashioned snap trap...CRACK...dead rat! Ditto mouse...but I won't poison them. I've shot 'em, clobbered one with a shovel when I was 10 or so.

I also support the laws we see out West that outlawed poisoning coyotes. You got coyote problems..."choot 'em E-Lizabet".

I think some of the controvery here is species. I wonder if we are talking grackles vs starlings. Starlings are an "exotic species" introduced from Europe and they've taken over. They flock in huge flocks. From a distance they look black. Up close, they are covered with little spots and have yellow beaks. A grackle is bigger, more aerodynamic looking (starlings look kind of plump). From a distance, they look all black and are shaped more or less like small crows. Up close, you will see a black body and a very, very dark purple and subtley irridescent plumage on the head...black beak.

Grackles are native birds to America but they have expanded their number greatly due to the change in the land.
 
I'm all for reducing the number of grackles and starlings (oh, and blue jays also). Lest anyone think I'm anti-bird, I wish that I could see more purple martins, hummingbirds, and cardinals (oh, and bald eagles too).

Btw -- good shot!
 
I'm all for reducing the number of grackles and starlings (oh, and blue jays also). Lest anyone think I'm anti-bird, I wish that I could see more purple martins, hummingbirds, and cardinals (oh, and bald eagles too).

Btw -- good shot!

Ditto! Our property abuts wetlands, and my wife and I were blessed enough to see a woodcock -- an incredibly rare sighting, per a local avian expert. We host chickadees, gold finches, woodpeckers, a barred owl, hawks, doves, cardinals, hummingbirds, robins, and other birds that don't occur to me at the moment.

I wasn't a "bird person" until moving here...Now, I'm captivated by them all -- except those freakin' grackles! scare3.gif


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Now show us some 100 yard target to see what your ruger will do at a hundred yards. Most 10/22 rebarrels .22lrs can shoot inside 2" with lots of ammo.
 
Here in Texas we have a few. I'm no real fan of them they not only take over feeders but take over other birds habitat by their numbers. One flew into my car once and craked my headlight. His two companions seemed to mourn his demise. They are social like Ravens and Crows.

But is it safe to shoot even a rimfire at an elevation. I'm assuming the shooter was shooting up at them. What was happening beyond his target?
 
When I was taught to shoot, I was taught to NEVER shoot over ROADS, BUILDINGS, OR ANYPLACE AROUND POWER LINES. What is wrong w/you???????????
 
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