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hunting with an air rifle in MX
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
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Dave talk to Lorenzo at SG he is up on all this stuff.
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dtbushpilot
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| Quote: | 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
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| Quote: | 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.
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| Quote: | 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 .
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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My guess is that I can kill a chicken with it.....
http://www.bb-guns.org/dianarws52witha4x32scopebyrws.aspx
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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.
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dtbushpilot
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | 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?
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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
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| Quote: | 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.
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| Quote: | 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
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| Quote: | Originally posted by estebanis
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. 
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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 . |
Check this one out.... .. ..
http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Sam_Yang_Recluse_Dual_Tank_Air...
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If you really want to eat quail it is better to approach it like fishing than hunting.
Trotline with raisin baited hooks. 
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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.
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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.
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Bwana_John, 'Bout like hanging apples from hooks to catch deer. I'll pass.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | 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.
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How nice. 
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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.
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