Starling killers

[PMB]

There are excellent air rifles for around 1500.00 YouTube has vids on them

I like those videos... Very nicely done.

I despise those flying rats (starlings) and solved my LOCAL problem by paying a bounty on fresh starling carcasses.

My kids bring me a few early in the nesting season, and then they get easier to hunt when they have a fresh crop of baby rats in the nest. $5 each warm carcass, $15 for a nesting pair, and $1 apiece for the babies.

If it's early enough in the year, straight into the woodstove.

Basically, putting a bounty on them and arming the teenagers with quality .22's took care of my problem.

 

[PMB]

That's a lot of commitment to a BB gun.

No, the really good airguns are around $1000 to $1500. I'll try to find the youtube vids.... I think Edguns is the account name that gives a pretty good show.

I think some of the better ones go for upwards of $3000.

 

[44mag2ndamend]

The Starlings around the farm where I work are so fast you need a shotgun to get them, They are extremely smart too. Any change in their environment at an instant and they are on you, except with the autoloader.

 

[mikeybuck]

When ever they get into our shop, I shoot them with 22 bird shot. Works great, leaves no marks or holes in the building. Always wear eye protection when shooting the stuff.

 

[teflon6string]

I've often shot pellets into a perch about 20' above me, under the overhang on a roof beam where various naughty birds rest in the shade before they return to actively wrecking my home. I've hit more than a few there with 10 pumps on a little Crosman air pistol. They drop like beanbags and I finish them off quickly if they're not already TU.

Here's the caveat:
Looking south, directly into the sun, it's sometimes difficult to see if the shadowy spot is actually occupied or not. Once about 10 years ago, I couldn't tell it was empty but I'd scored with "blind shots" there before. The pellet ricocheted directly back off the angled eave and smacked the lens on my eyeglasses hard enough to knock them crooked.

So be careful kids, you could lose an eye like that! Even playing with the lightweight stuff!

 

[2Wheels4Ever]

any bolt action .22 and some of these

 

[oli700]

you need a pet Peregrine Falcon, guaranteed not to kill your neighbors