an hour crow shooting

[Guest FTBBTH]

good day with my dad shooting crows, lost allot shooting them head on and they were flying off couple hundred metres and dropping down wierd but we couldnt retrieve them s they were dropping around a rape field but good day for us anyway!

[Ratsmasher 36]

well done bud crows are never easy

atb Ratty

[The Duncan 802]

No they aren't, but these are rooks.

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

No they aren't, but these are rooks.

Well spotted a right david attenbrough we have here

[The Duncan 802]

Not really, just no what I shoot lol!

I tend not to bother with shooting Rooks except at brancher day of course as they don't major in eating songbirds eggs and nestlings like crows do.

If the farmers ask (they havn't in 10 years) then I'll hit rooks, but not until.

[riflehunter583 58]

nice shooting. what range where you getting them at?

[Ratsmasher 36]

No they aren't, but these are rooks.

Honestly I did know that i just have a habit of refering to crows and rooks as crows (dunno why because i still call jackdaws jackdaws)

but i still think rooks are pretty tough to get

atb Ratty

 

P.S. We have a problem with the ROOKS taking the eggs from our chickens in spring which is a pain when you're trying to recover the cost of feeding them over winter when they stop laying

Edited April 2, 2012 by Ratsmasher

[The Duncan 802]

Where are you ratsmasher? Need a hand lol? Especially with brancher day approaching

[Ratsmasher 36]

Where are you ratsmasher? Need a hand lol? Especially with brancher day approaching

Suffolk, never heard of brancher day though??

[The Duncan 802]

May 12th my friend. Been a tradition for over a century whereby the young of the rooks are thinned out by air rifle as they are preparing to leave their nests- they hop about on the branches by their nests and flap about in preparation for leaving the nest (hence branchers).

[miroku moocher 140]

well done lad. rook's and a couple 'a' jackdaws there. i think rooks are alot easier to shot than crows. as corvids go i shoot em all crows,rooks,magpies, jackdaws and jays. they are all nest robbin fockers. so i shoot any i see on sight. as for branchers i just go in with a belt of 30grm 6s and knock em back. no particular day just when i'm in the area. wouldnt eat the dirty fockers though i usually see the older rooks on the field with there beaks up a 3 week dead sheeps arse''lol. dirty bassturds.

[Ratsmasher 36]

May 12th my friend. Been a tradition for over a century whereby the young of the rooks are thinned out by air rifle as they are preparing to leave their nests- they hop about on the branches by their nests and flap about in preparation for leaving the nest (hence branchers).

Aaah very interesting... tbh im a bit like Miroku moocher, pop them whenever i can, dont always shoot the jackdaws though they never seem to cause quite as much damage

atb

Ratty

[The Duncan 802]

its a myth that rooks are nest robbers. Thats the crows n magpies job.

[Ratsmasher 36]

its a myth that rooks are nest robbers. Thats the crows n magpies job.

Out of interest duncan, do you have a biology related career, or areyou just an expert on corvids?

[The Duncan 802]

its a myth that rooks are nest robbers. Thats the crows n magpies job.

Out of interest duncan, do you have a biology related career, or areyou just an expert on corvids?

 

I've always had a deep affinity for the natural world since I could walk, talk and read. I like to know what I'm culling and why I'm culling it - keeps me on very stable moral ground when I head out with a gun or rifle