sparrow down

i don't have a problem with the legal killing, but what i do have a problem with is the fact that he shot and killed a bird that he admitted to not knowing the species (read first few posts) One of the first rules of hunting that i ever learned was to properly identify my target. If i don't know exactly what i'm shooting, my safety is still on. Doesn't matter if it's a pheasant or a moose or a little song bird
 
Great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Honestly that is damn impressive. My problem is you did not hide the birds face for the photo. If you had, you could have posted you shot it's beak off. That thread was freakin fantastic, in a pathetic kind of way.

Funny, I posted earlier today about how the anti hunters should lay off the PC cr@p. The Hunting community seems to contain the absolute worst sorts in gun culture, some are just chomping at the bit to throw everyone who does not follow thier deranged ideals under the bus.

You want to know what makes hunters look bad to the public, other hunters attitudes:mad:
 
thegreatnorthernhunter said:
i don't have a problem with the legal killing, but what i do have a problem with is the fact that he shot and killed a bird that he admitted to not knowing the species (read first few posts) One of the first rules of hunting that i ever learned was to properly identify my target. If i don't know exactly what i'm shooting, my safety is still on. Doesn't matter if it's a pheasant or a moose or a little song bird
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up untill this thread, I always got the euro starling and the house sparrow mixed up... I knew it was legal, I just got the names mixed up now i know the starlings got the longer beak and more white spots on its back (the color of euro starlings we have here look very much like that of the sparrow)
 
hillmanr2 said:
Great shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Honestly that is damn impressive. My problem is you did not hide the birds face for the photo. If you had, you could have posted you shot it's beak off. That thread was freakin fantastic, in a pathetic kind of way.

Funny, I posted earlier today about how the anti hunters should lay off the PC cr@p. The Hunting community seems to contain the absolute worst sorts in gun culture, some are just chomping at the bit to throw everyone who does not follow thier deranged ideals under the bus.

You want to know what makes hunters look bad to the public, other hunters attitudes:mad:
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if I had done that there would be more people "beaking off" about how their ideals are the only ones that are right ect ect ect
 
sparrow, grackle, red winged blackbird, and starling all taste great when fried up in some butter. these little birds do taste great, but it's hard for some people to stop thinking about what they're eating and it prevents them form enjoying the meal.

sparrows are awesome little targets :ar15:
 
A little bit of slightkly off-topic useless trivia...

We have one nut named Eugene Schieffelin to thank for non-native house Sparows and Starlings in North America. From Wikipedia:

"In 1890, he released 60 starlings into New York City’s Central Park. He did the same with another 60 birds in 1891. It is said that his motivation was to allow New Yorkers to see all the birds mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare; more likely he was merely trying to control the same pests that had been annoying him thirty years earlier, when he sponsored the introduction of the House Sparrow to North America.

European Starlings were not native to North America. Schieffelin imported the starlings from England. Scientists estimate that descendants from those two original released flocks now number at more than 200 million residing in the United States.

The starlings' wildly successful spread is believed to have come at the expense of many native birds that compete with the starling for nest holes in trees.

His attempts to introduce bullfinches, chaffinches, nightingales, and skylarks were not successful."
 
Qhergt said:
hunters shoot "coyotes and other non edible critters" for pest control, among other reasons. What i did was just that, pest control. Here in BC the house sparrow is an introduced species and it kills off, raids the nests, take over the nests of our local native song birds. So I have no problem killing them along with any other animal on the Schedule C list as they are introduced and nuisance animals.

Schedule "C" animals can be captured or killed anywhere and at any time in BC. Schedule "C" birds may be hunted using electronic calls. You do not need a hunting licence to hunt or kill the following Schedule "C" wildlife:
(a) Rana catesbeiana - American bullfrog
(b) Rana clamitans - green frog
(c) all species of the family Chelydridae - snapping turtles
(d) Didelphis virginiana - North American opossum
(e) Sylvilagus floridanus - eastern cottontail
(f) Oryctolagus cuniculus - European rabbit
(g) Myocastor coypus - nutria
(h) all species of the genus Sciurus - gray squirrels and fox squirrels
(i) Passer domesticus - house sparrow
(j) Sturnus vulgaris - European starling
(k) Columbia livia - rock dove (domestic pigeon)

After reading the recipe that was posted a few pages back im curious to try eating starling....


I posted this thread mainly because I just started shooting archery a few months ago and managing to connect a shot like that on a moving target that small at almost 30 feet(i went out and paced it off earlier and was farther back then I thought) was a big deal for me. Just goes to show all my practicing is paying off. :D
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i wonder if there is a similar list for NB?! I MUST KNOW!
 
Nice shot. I wasn't even allowed to hunt anything as a child until I had proved my marksmanship by consistently plucking sparrows off the phone and power lines. Used to use a slingshot, pellet gun, .22, whatever was at hand. Never tried a bow or crossbow though! Their nests up on the poles used to cause no end of problems. I even ate my first one :p We also fed them.
 
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