Robin's

[Rowdie]

Yup, dad said no robbins, but my brother shot them and so I did. Our mamma cat took care of the evidence.

 

[Pheasant 54]

The best was the Red Wing black birds, go out in a slough where they were nesting and drop them as they hovered over you .

 

[Jiffy]

Coots “running” on the water are fun with a semiautomatic 22…or so I’ve heard.

 

[Kurtr]

Cormorants on dead trees are fun with a .22 ive been told

 

[Jiffy]

Suppressed AR

 

[Pheasant 54]

I wonder how many of those 500 count tubes of BB's I went through as a kid. Wore out more than one BB gun in my time . Sure was fun when I graduated to a .22

 

[Rowdie]

That Daisey Pump BB gun we got in the mid 70's was WAY bette than the ones they make today.!!!

 

[1lessdog]

For me growing up Robin's, Ciderwax Wings, Purple Martins were off limit. No one told me, I just new better.

 

[NodakBob]

I wonder how many of those 500 count tubes of BB's I went through as a kid. Wore out more than one BB gun in my time . Sure was fun when I graduated to a .22

My Dad would buy us each one tube every Saturday…it was hell trying to pace ourselves, we usually ran out in a couple days.

 

[Rowdie]

That Daisey Pump BB gun we got in the mid 70's was WAY bette than the ones they make today.!!!

Anyone remember the TIN soda and beer cans? That MFer would blow a hole through that and rip out the back side so where I could fit 3 little kid fingers in it. It wouldn't even move the can!

 

[Pheasant 54]

Way later than me , it was lever action only , big barrel on them , sure wish I had saved them and a tube of the 500

 

[Bossman]

This thread is bringing back so many memories and how lucky I feel growing up on a farm...How about sparrows? I know for some reason they are much less in concentration now as years past but man were those the "approved go to from pa" when it came to have fun son and shoot the bird BUT make sure you give the prize to the barn cats, it was game on...I am 47 just to put it in context...

 

[Pheasant 54]

Man you are right I had forgotten about the sparrows, go out into the pole barns and hammer them , damn near froze to death a couple of times .. How about the horned larks in the middle of winter almost froze over those little bastard also

 

[wslayer]

We use to shoot the shit out of sparrows that would roost around in the cow/calf barn. Fun times. . .

 

[AR-15]

Best bird in my yard are the yellow breasted king birds, they are so much fun to watch catching all the bugs

 

[Pheasant 54]

Those are western King birds the white breasted ones are eastern. I I wonder how many mosquitoes they eat a day

 

[measure-it]

I shot & breasted an Eastern Kingbird, grilled it with a mustard shmear...then it became a
yellow and white North Dakota Kingbird!

 

[Pheasant 54]

Yikes have another drink

 

[NDSportsman]

Shot lots of sparrows, black birds and barn swallows back in the day but the number 1 bird on my hit list was grackles. They have to be one of meanest, ugliest and noisiest MF's. They'll kill and eat other baby birds. I used to slaughter them as a kid even their babies right in the nest.

 

[bucksnbears]

No birds were " off limits" when I was a kid.
Wrist rockets and BB guns. Fun times and no regrets.