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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 6:17:18 GMT -5
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Post by featherduster on Mar 11, 2019 6:34:07 GMT -5
That's neat.
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Post by moose1am on Mar 20, 2019 10:33:48 GMT -5
Send those hawks over to my house as I have some squirrels that need to be thinned out. They live in the tree in our yard and come down and eat our blueberries in the berry bush. I have to chase them out of the blueberry bush or they will eat them all. And they keep breeding and adding more gray squirrels to the yard.
Once one of the squirrels was laying on a limb overlooking the blueberry bush one evening. It was dusk but not dark yet. A hawk took a run at the squirrel but the squirrel saw the hawk coming and scurried out of the way at the last minute. We still have a lot of hawks in the area along with a local group of black crows. The Hawks catch a lot of mice, voles or moles in our yard but they have not thinned out the squirrels as far as I can tell. I wish that they would kill some of these gray squirrels and get rid of them for me.
I have a new Gamo Air Rifle back at my house but the scope that came with it is either broken or just a piece of junk. I had another CO2 powered semi-auto air rifle but the seals leak and the CO2 won't stay inside the gun. It was very accurate when it had a brand new CO2 cartridge and it was not leaking out. I shot a lot of blackbirds out of the trees with that Crosman Air rifle. It had a lower velocity but it was more precise and consistent once I got it zeroed in at 40 yards.
Now the Gamo Air Rifles use compressed air and piston and this acts like the steel spring air guns which release a lot of energy all at one time and destroy inferior rifle scopes in a heartbeat. The shock waves created by these type of air rifles will shake a rifle scope inside to death. So I need to get a better scope for the new Gamo Air rifle. I have two different Gamo Air rifles. The newest one has some metal sights on the rifle and if I remove the scope I can use the metal sights as they don't fall apart when the gun shoots. And I think I can hit the squirrels in the tree with the metal sights. The scope that came with the Gamo was not accurate after I shot with it a while. So I think something inside the scope broke and allowed the crosshairs to move around inside the scope affecting the scopes accuracy. I have a new type scope on it now and need to try to zero it in at 40 yards and see if it will hold it's zero. But what I really need is a scope made for spring action type air rifles that can withstand the forward and backward shock waves produced by the Gamo Air Rifle. Then the squirrels and the starlings will be at my mercy.
Shoot a gray squirrel and save the Blueberries.
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Post by HighCotton on Mar 25, 2019 6:43:24 GMT -5
Regarding the use of hawks, falcons and other birds of prey as shown in the video, would the disturbance of nests and dens make this illegal in Indiana? Or do "falconers" and such have a waiver of sorts for training? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 9:18:39 GMT -5
Not sure in Indiana. They might have provision being a bird trainer and recovery program. This wasn't in Indiana. Just a neat outdoor video.
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Post by jbird on Mar 26, 2019 11:52:13 GMT -5
I saw a red-tailed hawk the other day with Mr. Bushytail in his talons. Not sure I'm a fan of using the skills of one animal to hunt another...but to each their own. I have seen some videos where folks use large eagles and they snatch up and kill small deer type game!
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Post by esshup on Mar 26, 2019 12:08:16 GMT -5
It's amazing. I ran the bird dog for a falconer once.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 13:23:09 GMT -5
I have a pair of redtail hawks that show up every year since I built my house (1992). The nest is just down the valley about 400 yards. Late fall through winter the squirrels show up and about now they start disappearing until next late fall. I have about 50-75 oak trees from 4 to 25 years old and a dozen black walnuts. You would think the woods would be loaded. Basically, no squirrels all spring to end of fall. The pair cleans them out. It's amazing how efficient they are.
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Post by span870 on Apr 6, 2019 5:58:10 GMT -5
Funny story linked to this. Running the beagles the other day and on one chase we had a red tail swoop in and try to catch the rabbit as the dogs were running it. He wasn't successful. About an hour later we were running another and I kept hearing this squeak sound that kept getting closer. Looked up and this red tail is zooming right at me. Don't think he saw me and at the last minute he flared up and whatever he had dropped about 10 foot from me with a good thud. Thought it was a bird. Walked over to it and it was a grey squirrel. Took the old boy a minute to shake things off. He was dropped out in the middle of a burnt field so I gave him a couple minutes to shake the cob webs out of his head and shooed him back to the treeline. Amazing some of the things you see in the woods.
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