Having a coffee this morning at home on our deck. My morning MO when the weather is pleasant. But the silence was shattered by a group of crows, one of which landed on a old and large spruce just to the edge of the property at about 50 feet up.
I promptly grabbed my old and trusty Brno Mod. 5 22 rimfire and ran a CCI 22 CB cap through the crows vitals. My dear wife turned he nose up and asked if I ever get "tired of that". My instant rebuttal was "NO"! And there's a pic to enjoy... but I couldn't get the wife to pose with it
Love it! That was one uneducated crow! What we down here call a real "Darwin Award" winner. Did his buddies take off when they saw the rifle? Or, did they continue to make their racket?
I wish I could do likewise from my back deck where our sassy small town crows flock about--but sadly, not to be.
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"Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave." -- Andrew Fletcher 1698
Craig, our crows are real dumb up here this time of the year. Nobody hunts them here and most of the young of the year have never encountered firearms. Nothing to call a group of crows back for a work-over 2 or 3 times before they get wise to the gunshots...and their colleagues dropping motionless from the sky.
Ted
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Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid. John Wayne
Ha ha-crow with your coffee? same thing i would have done in exactly the same scenario! A year ago or so in winter I popped one out there in a tall tree just to see if I could do it and to my surprise it dropped and flew kind of screwy with its' mate flying as if to keep it up in the air...they both went out of sight and one returned and began yelling and cawing away as crows do but i knew what had happened! It wanted to kick my tin can in the worse way imaginable but no idea what did it!
I had used a thousand foot per second pellet rifle in .177 caliber...guesstimated windage and cut loose! The crow caught itself after falling about ten feet straight down righted itself with its' mate....had its' mate taken up the same tree I could have tried for that one too!
And there's a pic to enjoy... but I couldn't get the wife to pose with it
