Jeez lol just packed full I was going to try to decoy them into a better shooting position do they even get spooked when you shoot
@L.Leon Thanks Luis. I really do like this little rifle. It’s far more accurate than it’s diminutive size would suggest. I used Hades on this trip and they seem for more effective at dropping birds right where they were as compared to the CPHP’s. I tried both tuned right at ~700 FPS and I seemed to get more pass throughs with the CPHPs and often the birds would fly a ways before they dropped when shot with them.
I must agree, it is wickedly accurate, am consistently hitting black walnut husks from 25 to 64 yards. The hits make me actually laugh out loud. All the husk represent a chipmunk’s head nicely. I have to go two to three hours north to get new dairy permissions, so my Atomic isn’t getting the work out your is… But am in the planning stages for a trip north.
@Airgunmann It kind of depends on the time of year and the age of the birds. If it’s mating season in the early spring, they are pretty stupid because they only have one thing on their mind and it’s not us so it’s easy chootin. If they are setting on a nest they don’t tend to move off of it and you can plant them there. If they are young hatchlings they are stupid and arent smart enough to be afraid of anything.
nice work what type of guns where you shootingWell … take that with a grain-o-salt. My buddy and I have been hunting a large industrialized dairy farm permission for several years trying to reduce the pigeon population. We’ve shot over 6,000 pigeons there. The owner was so sick of the birds he went to great expense to enclose all of the four 1/4 mile long barns in hopes to get rid of the nasty birds. Initially it worked and we lost that permission for 2 years. Last week my buddy received word that the owner asked us to come back as the pigeons had returned.
We expected there to be only a few pigeons there but once we got inside the first barn there were thousands of them. More than we had ever seen. Previously the barns had steel roofing and we could shoot birds about anywhere but during the enclosure project they replaced all of the steel roofing with fiberglass roofing. So, that really changed our shooting challenges. The barns have steel framework so we could only take aim where the birds were in front of a steel back stop. We didn’t want to get blamed for poking holes in the new $850,000 roofing!
We we’re in the barns by 9:30 am today and within 3 hours we dropped 306 pigeons between the two of us, which bested our previous record of 190 birds. So, yes, it’s a new world record … (in our small part of the world) … for us
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@jgg765 I’m using a .22 Brocock Atomic and my buddy @reiffra945 is using his 22 P-Rod. I’ve also used my RTI Prophet Compact .22 and Taipan Veteran Compact .22 but prefer the Atomic for its lighter weight. The P-Rod is even lighter weight than mine and might very well be the ultimate barn gun.
nice I am thinking about pickup up an atomic what is a 22 p-rod do you mean. do you mean the Benjamin Marauder BP2220 .22-Caliber PCP Air Pistol. Or something else. If you had to ick between the two which one would you pick?
Thanks for the idea, but PCP is the way to go. We have our guns dialed in and can take shots at 35 yards and beyond without damaging the roofing. Majority of our shots are to the heart/lung area and they drop like a rock. We are averaging over 200 birds per hunt and feel we have the perfect set-ups for the job.
