can i kill a crow with a .22 pellet

Before attempting to deal with your Crow problem, check out the local bylaws regarding killing of crows. In my younger days, I was part of a program to eradicate crows for a municipality. this is until we found out we violating the city's own bylaw code.....
 
burnt_servo said:
if the crows land to eat the bread ,
the next time you put some bread out for them , take some starting fluid ( the ether based stuff ) and soak the bread in it .

They eat the bread , then pass out .

I know of one farmer who while the birds where passed out , would paint them with orange buckermans paint ( water based ) .
There would be orange crows all over his farm :d
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lmfao!!!
 
Camj said:
hmmm what a dopey idea. What about the other critters that eat the bread. #### head!
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Paint them orange too??

No need for name calling, Man. I realize what you're saying, and it's an excellent point, but you don't leave the bait there unsupervised. They don't pass out for very long. So you have to be on top of it, if you want to do more than one coat, or customize the paint job a little....Adjust dosage upwards for Ravens.
 
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I've used old crossmans, cheap chinese, and more recently winchester airguns, all under 500ft/s, .177, and they've all taken their fair share of magpies. Your .22 air rifle should do the trick as long as you do your part.
 
Although something about those $65 chinese airguns, I'm quite sure they're movin along significantly faster than my 495ft/s winchester. They hit a lot harder.
 
I have an old .22 pellet gun that I got as a kid from a flea market. I've shot dozens of crows with it, some hail mary shots at 40-50 yards and they fall over backwards (shooting them off a fence post)

Works on possums and coons great too if you hit them between the eyes or behind the ear, used to shoot them out of the barn, the .22lr would scare the cattle and chickens too much.
 
I took out a crow with 177 air rifle at 800 fps from a range of 40 yards. It flew about 20 feet and dropped dead.
That air rifle harvested 125 pigeons, 140 magpies, and eliminated a beaver at 30 yards.
A guy needs the proper permit for the beaver of course, which we had on file.
 
Reading this thread makes me wonder about how many times I've read that you need to use a shotgun to hunt crows! I've never taken one with a shotgun, but could see how that would be fun! A .17 HMR does the job nicely, and I had one in my sights last week while plinking with my .22lr.

To the question though~yes, it works...but head shots work a heck of allot better than anything else. I've seen .177 (sub 500 fps) pellets do next to nothing on body shots to the chest. Granted, it rattles them a bit..often enough to allow time for a reload/re-shoot.

Back when I shot air rifles all the time, I wish I would have had my current fav. rifle, a QB-79. Econo-.22 CO2 gun, but it's accurate and hits hard.

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Rifle alone sells for about $130... 3rd one down; http://www.dlairgun.com/Industry-Air-Rifles.html
 
Yes, airguns are efficient enough to kill birds belonging to crow family. I have done it with both .177 and .22, both are BSA Supersport airrifles.
 
burnt_servo said:
if the crows land to eat the bread ,
the next time you put some bread out for them , take some starting fluid ( the ether based stuff ) and soak the bread in it .

they eat the bread , then pass out .

i know of one farmer who while the birds where passed out , would paint them with orange buckermans paint ( water based ) .
there would be orange crows all over his farm :D
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lol, too funny... that made my morning! :)
 
What's the chances of them hanging around for the farmer to find?Whiskey Jacks are stupid enough to eat rum soaked bread till they fall over but not crows.Harold
 
you can believe this or not-I wouldn't have unless I saw it first hand. A client of mine who was a nursury owner had a fenced in 22 acre nursury and had a deer in there he couldn't get rid of that was devastating his fruit trees.He was not a hunter and the only gun he had was a sub 500 fps air rifle he used to shoot starlings in his cherry tree[I sighted it in for him]

Anyway,he asked me to come and try and chase out the deer[he was 80 years old] and while walking the property-I noticed a dead doe, under his kiwi bushes,just beginning to bloat-obviously dead within the last 24 hours.There was a tiny puncture would on its neck.Anyway,I asked him ''if he had been chasing that deer last night''? and he said he had.He volunteered he had''been real close and taken a shot at it''.I asked what he had used?-and he said''the air rifle-its the only gun I have''I then asked ''where did the deer go after you took a shot at it ''?-and he said it had ''run uphill under the kiwi bushes''....so-there you have it-the deer had run away,he hadn't followed it ,and the deer lay down under the kiwi bushes and expired-the pointed pellet,shot at close range had penetrated its jugular and it had bled out internally

As I said-if I hadn't been involved personally,knew the situation, I would have said ''impossable''-but it wasn't
 
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