Retired Sheriff West has a farm just outside of town. He now leases his pastures to local cattle farmers. but he keeps his barn and mancave that are full of everything he has gathered and hoarded over the years. It's awesome to nose around in all that old stuff. He has a 20' x 20' walk in cooler that serves as his mancave. It's set up with all the kitchen amenities for cooking, a large gathering table and big screen TV. Before most of them passed on, many of the local farmers and politicians would gather there on Sunday mornings for breakfast.
I met Charles through my good friend Killer (R.I.P.) and he accepted us Yankee Rednecks (as they called Betty Lou and I) straight away.
Charles enlisted Betty Lou to clean the mancave and me to do little rewiring and Starling patrol. He has Martin houses and the Starling try to dominate. We went out this morning to do such things.
I wanted to take the .25 Avenger but Buck Rail forgot to include the stock tube in the conversion kit and that part won't be here until tomorrow so I took the Hatsan Flash QE .22.
I set up a small folding shooting table just inside the shadow of the barn looking out at 5 or 6 martin house poles. Action was really slow. The first group was 3 birds. I took aim and feathered one but they all flew off. 20 or so minutes later a single landed and I center punched it. Another 30 minutes and another came in... it went down too.
By then Betty Lou was worn out from cleaning and wanted to go get something to eat and go home.
I called Charles to update him on what we had done and to tell him we would be going back out on Tuesday. He said we should go later in the day. That's when the Starlings are much more active.
No pics this time but I'll get some next trip.
I met Charles through my good friend Killer (R.I.P.) and he accepted us Yankee Rednecks (as they called Betty Lou and I) straight away.
Charles enlisted Betty Lou to clean the mancave and me to do little rewiring and Starling patrol. He has Martin houses and the Starling try to dominate. We went out this morning to do such things.
I wanted to take the .25 Avenger but Buck Rail forgot to include the stock tube in the conversion kit and that part won't be here until tomorrow so I took the Hatsan Flash QE .22.
I set up a small folding shooting table just inside the shadow of the barn looking out at 5 or 6 martin house poles. Action was really slow. The first group was 3 birds. I took aim and feathered one but they all flew off. 20 or so minutes later a single landed and I center punched it. Another 30 minutes and another came in... it went down too.
By then Betty Lou was worn out from cleaning and wanted to go get something to eat and go home.
I called Charles to update him on what we had done and to tell him we would be going back out on Tuesday. He said we should go later in the day. That's when the Starlings are much more active.
No pics this time but I'll get some next trip.
