BajaNomad - hunting with an air rifle in MX

hunting with an air rifle in MX

dtbushpilot - 6-20-2011 at 02:12 PM

Thank you all for the great replies to my air rifle in MX questions on my other thread.
What I would like to know is if anybody has any experience hunting small game with an air rifle or any firearm for that matter. If I wanted to legally hunt small game what do I need to do? What are the seasons? Do I need to hire an outfitter to shoot a few quail?
Thank you in advance for your help.....dt

capt. mike - 6-20-2011 at 02:25 PM

Dave talk to Lorenzo at SG he is up on all this stuff.

dtbushpilot - 6-20-2011 at 02:51 PM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
Dave talk to Lorenzo at SG he is up on all this stuff.

Thanks for the referral mike. Where is SG?.....dt

capt. mike - 6-20-2011 at 03:33 PM

www.campolorenzo.com
san quintin.

DENNIS - 6-20-2011 at 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Do I need to hire an outfitter to shoot a few quail?
Thank you in advance for your help.....dt

C'mon up to my place. You can close your eyes and throw a rock. It'll hit Quail.

mcfez - 6-20-2011 at 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Thank you all for the great replies to my air rifle in MX questions on my other thread.
What I would like to know is if anybody has any experience hunting small game with an air rifle or any firearm for that matter. If I wanted to legally hunt small game what do I need to do? What are the seasons? Do I need to hire an outfitter to shoot a few quail?
Thank you in advance for your help.....dt

Ya kidding right?
Here...lets do this: buy a whole chicken 9dressed out/dead!) at your market. Set that naked thing on a fence post. Shoot you rifle and you'll see that it just wont do a hell of a lot of damage for a kill. yes....you may get lucky and kill a Mocking bird.

Plus....these little cal rifles are not accurate. The sights are junk, wind factors, and shaky hands .

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dtbushpilot - 6-20-2011 at 05:09 PM

My guess is that I can kill a chicken with it.....

http://www.bb-guns.org/dianarws52witha4x32scopebyrws.aspx

Cisco - 6-20-2011 at 05:35 PM

I have shot hundreds of doves and quail in a residential neighborhood with a Crossman single pistol, .177 with six pumps which gives a pellet velocity of about 500'/sec. Want to keep it sub-sonic or the neighbors get upset.

They certainly are deadly on small game.

This is the steel barrel, rifled, original pistol with adjustable sights. $50 anywhere.

dtbushpilot - 6-20-2011 at 05:36 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Do I need to hire an outfitter to shoot a few quail?
Thank you in advance for your help.....dt

C'mon up to my place. You can close your eyes and throw a rock. It'll hit Quail.

Great.....but will somebody in a uniform with a bigger gun take me to jail for shooting quail?

estebanis - 6-20-2011 at 07:47 PM

Legally you need to hunt on an UMA (Hunting Preserve), Hunt with a guide, Have a hunting Permit and tags for the game species... Average cost of paperwork over $500 USD

DENNIS - 6-20-2011 at 08:05 PM

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Originally posted by dtbushpilot
Great.....but will somebody in a uniform with a bigger gun take me to jail for shooting quail?

No guns. Just rocks. It's OK.
Mama Quail with their little chicks running all over the place. They must hatch around twenty eggs at a time.
I don't hunt them and they're only a one bite bird so I don't eat them either. I used to go out to Guadalupe Valley and buy bags of frozen Quail for a little bit of nothing. I suppose you still can.
Pickled Quail Eggs too. Fun with a box of beer.

estebanis - 6-21-2011 at 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS

I don't hunt them and they're only a one bite bird so I don't eat them either. I used to go out to Guadalupe Valley and buy bags of frozen Quail for a little bit of nothing. I suppose you still can.
Pickled Quail Eggs too. Fun with a box of beer.

They are some of the best eating game around!
Esteban

DENNIS - 6-21-2011 at 06:08 PM

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They are some of the best eating game around!
Esteban

I look at them the same way I see Artichokes. Yummy, but way more trouble than they're worth, but if you're serving....I'm eating. :biggrin:

KASHEYDOG - 6-23-2011 at 11:42 AM

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Check this one out....

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Bwana_John - 6-23-2011 at 12:08 PM

If you really want to eat quail it is better to approach it like fishing than hunting.

Trotline with raisin baited hooks.

Cisco - 6-23-2011 at 12:53 PM

Bwana, I remember "way back when" the Mexicans would trap them. Cartridges were expensive and these quail had never heard a gun shot, they would run from a man, not fly.

So, the "hunters" would herd them into a "Y" made of low chicken wire and then on into the screened catchment area and slaughter them by hand.

Osprey - 6-23-2011 at 01:20 PM

Easiest way is to soak rice in rum, sprinkle it on the ground. Alcohol is poison to birds -- just a few grains of rice and they are unable to fly or escape and you can catch them by hand. I don't want to hear from any PETA people because this method is more humane than shooting them -- at least they go out singin', it's just not their usual Chi quaca tune.

Cypress - 6-23-2011 at 01:20 PM

Bwana_John, 'Bout like hanging apples from hooks to catch deer. I'll pass.

DENNIS - 6-23-2011 at 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by Cisco
So, the "hunters" would herd them into a "Y" made of low chicken wire and then on into the screened catchment area and slaughter them by hand.

How nice.

Cisco - 6-23-2011 at 02:09 PM

Yes, much more humane than being shot and injured or having a mechanical end that may or may not work as most of our commercial beef and chickens do.

Good of you to notice that Dennis.

Cypress - 6-23-2011 at 03:03 PM

Cisco, I don't hunt with a pee-shooting air rifle. Injuries?

DOD! Painless and quick.

monoloco - 6-23-2011 at 03:26 PM

Anybody ever try a dovecote?

Cypress - 6-23-2011 at 03:38 PM

monloco, Dovecote? A trap? It'll work. Easy to make. Will keep you supplied with more quail than you can eat.

Cisco - 6-23-2011 at 04:38 PM

Hey Guy, I'm confused after your "DOD" post.

Now what I envision is that you take them out of the trap and THEN shoot-em???

monoloco - 6-23-2011 at 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by Cypress
monloco, Dovecote? A trap? It'll work. Easy to make. Will keep you supplied with more quail than you can eat.

A dovecote is like a big nesting box with multiple rooms, the doves go in and make their nests and after the eggs hatch, the hatchlings are tethered, the mother continues to feed them, when they are big enough, they are eaten.

DENNIS - 6-23-2011 at 05:16 PM

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Originally posted by monoloco
A dovecote is like a big nesting box with multiple rooms, the doves go in and make their nests and after the eggs hatch, the hatchlings are tethered, the mother continues to feed them, when they are big enough, they are eaten.

Gawd will punish somebody for that. :no:

Cypress - 6-23-2011 at 06:12 PM

Was thinking more of a wire/ net trap. Catches adults.

BajaGringo - 6-23-2011 at 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by Cypress
Was thinking more of a wire/ net trap. Catches adults.

If we incorporate those two ideas and apply it to our prison system in dealing with revolving door / repeat felons we could really do something about the high cost of incarceration.

Although some of the other inmates may get suspicious when the slop starts looking like soylent green...

dtbushpilot - 6-23-2011 at 07:25 PM

Sad to see how my post has degraded.
To those who replied with helpful info here and via u2u I thank you. To the rest of you well......I guess it was all OK too, it's all good just in a different way, thanks all......dt

BajaGringo - 6-23-2011 at 07:30 PM

Sorry dt - slow day...