Starlings Vs. TX200 - Air Arms pest control

These were shot in the last millennium, maybe 1998 or so.
Camera is X10 wireless, would not work so well now with ubiquitous WiFi. Camera transmitted 2.4 Ghz analog to receiver hooked up to a Sharp VHS VCR. Recently digitized tape with an apparently counterfeit EasyCap. Poor video quality is due more to low quality camera and VCR recording than low quality capture device.
These are all Air Arms TX-200 shots, .22 cal. Gun bought from Jim Maccari, with Maccari spring and power tuned by the spring wizard himself. Scope is a 50mm AO with BDC. Gun can hit a dime at 50yds.
Range for shots in this video is 35 yards.

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• Starling
• Pest Control
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[MADtrippin]

what you using for bait...May set up a similar setup

[LandoBri]

@MADtrippin It's a seed and suet mix. I used cheap generic birdseed, mostly millet I'd say, and rendered beef fat. I just melted the fat on the stove and poured it over birdseed in a plastic bag lining a square plastic container. I stirred it up a bit to make sure the fat got in to the corners. Then, 20 minutes in the freezer and it's ready to go.

[zemoyerz]

why dont you just set up a target instead of shooting birds?

[LandoBri]

@zemoyerz

Starlings are pests in the US, they kill and disrupt broods of native song birds.. You can't trap or poison them like you can mice or rats because that may hurt good birds. Baiting and shooting them is a safe option for native birds.

[POTMONI]

Very sad ! taking lives just for fun and using food as bait ! YOU ARE A NO CLASS MOTHERFUCKER !!!

[LandoBri]

@POTMONI

Starlings are pests in the US, they kill and disrupt broods of native song birds.. You can't trap or poison them like you can mice or rats because that may hurt good birds. Baiting and shooting starlings is a safe option for native birds.

P.S. Sounds like there is not much going on in the Antilles.

[mkmccole]

@hhedleym97 Not the UK, this video was shot in the USA. Starlings are an invasive species here, they kill native birds and are classified as pests, like rats.

[mrwiggles2]

Starlings are horrid creatures. Beaks of death is right, with claws that go with it. In the US theIR swarming flocks love airports so they're also an aviation danger.

[JBAlitalia]

Love the comment 'baiting to shoot birds is illegal' what rubbish. Iv always scattered grain etc to bait or lure pigeons. Vermin ate vermin and as long as its legal quarry & dispatched cleanly then all's good to me

[thepowerfulnews]

Too bad we can meet up and hunt these things in the U.S. I think it wold be lot's of fun. I'm also thinking about getting a better BB gun just to be able to shoot these better.

[notagrd]

loved the one where you woke up the dog

[ActiveStealth00]

Pmsl, its awsome how they just fall backward like they been knocked out in the ring

[hhedleym97]

Are you in the UK even in 1998 baiting to shoot birds was illegal in the UK.

[jensybaby567]

i agree with you guys but off that subject quickly does the air arms rifle perform well and what calibre do you have ?

[CaptainLegend1001]

@POTMONI y the fuck are u watching this for if u dont like it fuck off and let us do what we do

[remoman]

stone dead! good stuff.