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Old Artilleryman


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On another matter--the owner of the original field on which I was going to set up called up Sunday (31 July) to ask me not to hunt on it (or any other fields during the harvest) because of the possibility of a pellet on its downward trajectory intersecting with a berry and somehow lodging itself within. As the owner is a friend and a BIG landowner with huge assets in agricultural land here, other states, and internationally. Naturally I said “OK,” agreeing to fire up only the cornfields and soybeans until after the blueberry harvest. I’m wondering if he got his info from this WaPo article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020900342_pf.html

Anybody ever heard of this problem or experienced this restriction?



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Geez...The horror...The horror... Can't event count the number of times as a kid I found a shotgun pellet in one of my mealsbiggrin I guess by some miracle I got through it.

Blueberries in canada are for the most part grown in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. My inlaws live down there... which is they're problem...but crows in the region are scorned as they are fond of the berries.

I couldn't get over the numbers of crows down there and the evening roost bound flights that were so nicely strung out for what seemed like hours. My guess in that breed producers shoot at them regularly as propane "bangers" were common in an effort to haze the crows off crops.

Crows too were a subspecies known as the Northwestern Crow, a tad smaller with a much different call.

 

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"downward trajectory intersecting with a berry and somehow lodging itself within."

That'd be a new one to me.

I once had an apple orchard fella tell me "no" because of falling shot damaging the buds on the trees. Huh? Funny because he wanted me to shoot all the crows in the world, just not on his property. Go figure.

BH

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