General discussions. Politics, scuttlebutt, whatever: you're getting married, changing jobs, got a gripe or a compliment, dying to get out with the bow etc.....
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hazard
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by hazard » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:02 pm
Every weekend I do my best to assassinate as many of these special little A%$@#$!. I consider it a religious experience every time I introduce one to its maker! Just wondering if we should bring to light this closer to home sport of course bearing in mind safety and the law. I am very sure a great many of trad and even Compounders give it a go but I haven't heard mention of it. There must be some very funny stories of near hits and near misses, unususal techniques helping a higher yeild, and all of the above, Its probably not considered by some all that ethical or even important but I just felt like putting it out there.
Hazard
I must confess I mainly use an air riffle, because I hate letting any of the little B^*#%$@!!!! get away, but the bow still has the most entertainment value up to 20-25 metres.
But Howies varmint busters with a 50lb bow really make a mess!.....humanely of course
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Stickbow Hunter
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by Stickbow Hunter » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:28 pm
They are a very serious threat in some areas to our native birds and most certainly need exterminating.
When I was a kid I use to earn good pocket money by wandering around local streets with my air rifle and shooting Indian Myna's and Sparrows. I would cut their heads off and take them up to our local Council Office and get (from memory) ten cents for a Myna head and five cents for a Sparrow head. Just imagine what would happen now days if a young fella did that.
How times have changed - for the worse I might add.
Jeff
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jonow
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by jonow » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:48 pm
a friend of mine found a specialist designed trap for them on the net somewhere. He made it out of chicken wire and it worked a tweat. Of course it does not have the same rush as a good hit with an arrow but hey it worked and totally got rid of his problem. I don't have any around here for practise
"Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them" Psalm 127
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TomMcDonald
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by TomMcDonald » Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:41 am
not Mynas but sparrows.
When we were kids, me and my cousin used to set up a bird cage in the chicken yard with chicken feed in it with a ramp going up to the door which opened by sliding up and down. The sparrows used to steal all the chicken feed.
We'd tie a string to the door in the open piosition and take the string about 30 metres away. When there were enough birds in there we'd cut the string, trapping the birds.
My uncle paid us 50 cents for every sparrow corpse we showed him.
