Spent about 3 hours at the dairy farm yesterday. (Sorry! It's 70 and overcast here.) There are two areas I shoot. One is the feed pile where the birds, mostly Starlings now, Eat and poop. At that site I had about 10 dead Starlings and 1 collared dove. The other location was a farmer owned pole and wire that was at the entrance to the barns where there was feed in the trouhgs for the cows to eat.
My Alpha Wolf is DOA so I went to my back up rifles. I used my Daystate Pulsar with a Heli board at power level 4. Chrono says with the .22 Hades ut about 612 FPS. That rifle has a 9 round magazine. I went through 8 magazines and probably missed maybe 25 shots. This is 25yd shooting. At the power level I dropped from 230 bar to 200 bar. The pulsar is close to antique status, but it always hits where you aim it. Even after a long rest period between uses (maybe weeks). You do the math but there won't be as many Starlings breeding next Spring. The farmer reminded me that I shoot em and he takes care of the 'crime scene'. Also got a nice text that thanked me for helping control a costly problem for the farm. Farmeres should be a 'protected species' and we air gunners should help them any way we can.
My Alpha Wolf is DOA so I went to my back up rifles. I used my Daystate Pulsar with a Heli board at power level 4. Chrono says with the .22 Hades ut about 612 FPS. That rifle has a 9 round magazine. I went through 8 magazines and probably missed maybe 25 shots. This is 25yd shooting. At the power level I dropped from 230 bar to 200 bar. The pulsar is close to antique status, but it always hits where you aim it. Even after a long rest period between uses (maybe weeks). You do the math but there won't be as many Starlings breeding next Spring. The farmer reminded me that I shoot em and he takes care of the 'crime scene'. Also got a nice text that thanked me for helping control a costly problem for the farm. Farmeres should be a 'protected species' and we air gunners should help them any way we can.
