2021 Starling Thinning

[flyingsquirrel]

+ 8 with one shot

 

[johntheplinker]

Got me beat, got 7 with one shot back when we had all the snow a month or so ago.

 

[freekforge]

I gotta sight in the air rifles for the starlings and feral pigeons at my wife's families farm. Took the shotgun to some the other day. Smacking a starling with a a turkey load with extra full choke is overkill

 

[tmschuller]

+2 yesterday and a bonus piney that I’ve been trying to get since fall. Loading up some BB loads for the 930 mossy today. Great starling thread of 2021 is off to great start!

 

[spec4]

Help a city boy out. What problems do starlings cause or is it just fun to shoot them?

 

[Michigan Slim]

Help a city boy out. What problems do starlings cause or is it just fun to shoot them?

First off their not native birds. They also drive off all my bluebirds from the feeders. They make messes all over my decks. Their fun to shoot too.

 

[tmschuller]

First off their not native birds. They also drive off all my bluebirds from the feeders. They make messes all over my decks. Their fun to shoot too.

Help a city boy out. What problems do starlings cause or is it just fun to shoot them?

They were brought here by the English and overtake everywhere. I treat them like flies or roaches
Edit: working outside today and add 3 more. So a conservative 16? Let’s add to the count

 

[spec4]

Thanks for the info. I do see them almost everywhere.

 

[cosermann]

Same thing goes for house sparrows.

 

[johntheplinker]

If pigeons are considered winged rats, then starlings are winged mice. Pests is what they are. Also since they tend to run in large flocks, there is a huge amount of droppings under their roosts, and those droppings can cause health issues especially to folks with lung issues.

 

[freekforge]

One of my land lords other tenants had problems with house sparrows and starlings bringing lice into the house through the attic. My crosman 2400kt took good care of them it was a several day massacre.

Sounds weird but house sparrows taste pretty good. Starlings are kinda tough but good sauteed in garlic butter with onions.

 

[johntheplinker]

One of my land lords other tenants had problems with house sparrows and starlings bringing lice into the house through the attic. My crosman 2400kt took good care of them it was a several day massacre.

Sounds weird but house sparrows taste pretty good. Starlings are kinda tough but good sauteed in garlic butter with onions.

You can have my share. Blech.

 

[spencer rifle]

Add another.

 

[spencer rifle]

And another.

 

[tmschuller]

Not starling related but.. Last night I was in the hay mound throwing down bales and had huge coon run my up my arm.. pitch black but I had my streamlight stylus pro and pistol.. so I dispatched trash panda and did this on top off wobbly square bales 10 high. As a bonus I managed this without shooting a hole in the barn roof it was a healthy coon..

 

[patience0830]

So far this year I've killed a dozen or better from the suet feeders. Possum eats them in the old dog house. It's full of feathers. Had a Coopers hawk come by and eat a couple for my wife about 20' from the dining room window.
So 40 is a conservative total.

 

[Huzrjim]

When I received my first BB gun (yes, a daisy RR) as a young boy, probably around 6, my Dad told me that I could only shoot starlings. Nothing else. I took pride in mastering the starling head shot at longer and longer distances.

 

[tmschuller]

Son got 2 yesterday

 

[PistolBob]

I used to sit on my Uncle's front porch and shoot starlings out of the tree in the front yard (pellet gun)....he paid me a dime per dispatch.

 

[tmschuller]

+6 yesterday