DO YOU HUNT WITH YOUR AIRGUNS?

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Do you hunt with your airguns?

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 88.7%

  • No

    Votes: 7 11.3%
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survivor45 said:
I plink and pest. I would hunt small game if given the opportunity. The only squirrel we can hunt here in Washington state lives in our backyards and city parks. We can’t legally hunt birds with an air rifle.
I think we could probably hunt hair (snowshoe). Again I believe most rabbits are protected just like our native squirrels.
I think anything coyote or bigger I’d stick with my powder burners.
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If you ask Keith Warren, Texas hogs can be taken out with just a Gamo 16 foot-pounder... And at the same time, putting that power vs. shot placement argument to rest, once and for all.
 
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Shot a goose last year and about 6 coons in the yard..they go after our chickens but the hint house is coon proof now. My Aussie dog Rowdy ripped this coon a new one after I dropped it out of the tree with the .30 cal LCS.
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inverted said:
I happen to live in a really backward thinking, third world SE EU country so any air rifle pesting or hunting is prohibited by law. It doesn't matter that crows and pigeons ran off all other "nice" bird species and rats are all over every single farm. One can legally destroy nests or poison rats but humanly dispatch them with air rifle of suitable caliber and power level is still illegal.
Paper punching and plinking only for me.
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I completely agree with you, asian sparrows and over-breeding starlings drove out native birds from larger settlements and cities entirely, native European birds such as tits, swallows, black redstarts and most notably: robins and godfinches, are no longer to be seen in my town. The law in my country is the same regarding pesting, and the mentality of our people as well... Ista stvar pri nas, kao pri vas.
 
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I do both, though I only actually hunt 2 or maybe 3 times a year. The rest of the time, I mostly punch paper and some very occasional pesting in the yard. I am fortunate to have access to some private property 90 minutes north of me. I grab the dogs and the guns and hunt 18 acres for squirrel and rabbit. I did a fair amount of deer hunting as a youngster, but these days, I prefer the easier disassembly of smaller animals. Airguns are great for this and if you do it right, you don't lose any meat.
 
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Some good information here. Living out in the country, i'm under constant attack from chipmunks the ocasional rat and plenty of starlings and hosp. I also use my airguns for dispatch on the trapline. Way cheaper, quieter and gets it done all the way up to coyotes. Raising chickens it seems everything likes chicken. With corn all around us and fur prices down to nothing, there is a huge number of coon and when the population gets this high we're seeing a lot of sickly ones roaming around in the daylight hours. Can't do anything about the hawks as they are protected but there is no shortage of those either.
 
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