New place to shoot Pigeons

[markT]

Been driving by this place for years. Finally stopped in and asked. Planet manager said yes. Gonna use air rifles PCP’s. He said WE worked better for him and gate will be open. I’m so excited.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Night vision?

 

[Adam in WI]

How are you going to recover the ones that don't fall? Or is that a non issue?

 

[snert]

Oh yes! Pigeon Nirvana.

I miss pigeon shooting. In NY they are not protected. Shoot anytime anywhere discharging a firearm is legal. I loved old dairy barns and silos. Especially if the farmer was beyond caring if you were INSIDE the barn.

Moved to PA and the PA Game Commission must be a secretive sect of the Amish. More stupid rules than one could dream up on a bad acid trip. Chipmunks and common pigeon are protected. Two of the biggest nuisance critters in PA, except for John Fetterman. And can't hunt any of them.

You are blessed to get such a place.

 

[markT]

Plant manger didn’t say anything about recovery. Just a quick drive around and they like sitting on silo grain bin. We might be able to go inside where other grain looks to be held but I’ll know more when we hunt. Seems to me they would have hired someone to kill those nasty sky rats. Got to be over 100. Probably starlings also. I’m going to get on em hard and will be back over and over if allowed. I got pellets and HPA. Going to put my pard in bed of truck. Got way more to do but this is a start going to be blacked out with a paneling top.

 

[snert]

They learn fast. Hit em hard the first time. second time, it will be exponentially harder

 

[Bottom Fodder]

Nothing like Pigeons versus pellets

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Easy at night, no escapes.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

When I was young boy had a farmer that pay us with watermelons for shooting pigeons, it was a win win for us
we never let them get to the “ Bottom Fodder”

 

[markT]

Easy at night, no escapes.

Would love for that to happen. If applicable and allowed.

 

[JSH]

The last bunch I shot were dumber than heck. They wised up a little but not real fast. Son and I killed a pile of them over the summer and fall. The damage their crap does to metallic objects is way over not being able to retrieve a few.

 

[K9TXS]

Police the area as often as you can. The landowner will appreciate you picking up your kill and not leaving them scattered about.

When I hunted pigeons years back, I placed a trash bag in a 5 gallon bucket. All pigeons and some rats went in the bag. When I was done with the hunt, just tie off the bag and put in the trash.

You couldn't even tell I was there.

 

[markT]

^^^ That's a good thought.. I will let plant manager know if one or more come to rest on top... I'll leave a 5 gallon bucket with a few trash bags just in case one stays on top of silo and falls out later. Then they can pick up and have a place to put it..

 

[TrapperBR549]

I would love to get in there at night with a rimfire wearing a can and a thermal. I've never done it but it sure sounds fun.

 

[Adam in WI]

I would love to get in there at night with a rimfire wearing a can and a thermal. I've never done it but it sure sounds fun.

PCP is the tool. Way too much sheet metal around those bins for a rimfire.

 

[Doug Casner]

Im from a small town in Mo. When I was a kid the chief of police had a pigeon shoot around town. They had got to thick. I dont know what you had to do to get permission but dad and some of his buddies got to shoot pigeons in town with a shotgun. Just in certain places. Doug

 

[SSL]

Im from a small town in Mo. When I was a kid the chief of police had a pigeon shoot around town. They had got to thick. I dont know what you had to do to get permission but dad and some of his buddies got to shoot pigeons in town with a shotgun. Just in certain places. Doug

Had the same thing in west-central Illinois when I was a kid in the late '50s. Sheriff had certain men stationed around the town square (where the county courthouse was) to shoot pigeons. Group effort. My dad was one of the trusted shooters. Only allowed vertical shots and nothing bigger than 20-gauge and #8 shot, Pigeons were a serious problem and darned near owned the square! After the 'shoot' you could find dead pigeons for a two block radius of the downtown area! During the shoot you could hear shot rattling on roofs around the square...truly a different day.

 

[Doug Casner]

I was small but it seemed like they shot them on the square around the courthouse and business zoned places where theyre werent too many people , on Sunday. Doug

 

[Rocky Mt High]

My dad and his trapshooting buddy did the same thing when I was a kid In our small Wisconsin town .Always a really cold day in Jan. Or Feb. They shot em right on the courthouse lawn and I ran the birds for them.
I had a couple chances later when I was 14. Cold days and shot under the Main st. bridge.
Man , that’s small town livin for ya…

 

[TrapperBR549]

PCP is the tool. Way too much sheet metal around those bins for a rimfire.

How do the ballistics of the PCP compare to a subsonic .22? The only air rifle I messed with was a pump up Benjamin many decades ago and I know it would put a hole through a barn roof.
I'm not arguing, just curious.