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Insurgent birds have re-infiltrated my neighborhood, killing local songbirds and generally trying to reassert their authority in my province.

The tacticool, 1956 Crosman .22 pellet rifle with high tech optics is wreaking a terrible wrath on their heads. Notice the stock extension designed to absorb the punishing recoil.

Al'Sqawkbar

Get er done

Keep whacking them. Dang things are horrible on my trucks paint.

doc540 wrote:Insurgent birds have re-infiltrated my neighborhood, killing local songbirds and generally trying to reassert their authority in my province.

The tacticool, 1956 Crosman .22 pellet rifle with high tech optics is wreaking a terrible wrath on their heads. Notice the stock extension designed to absorb the punishing recoil.

Al'Sqawkbar

You're about 2998 under the daily bag limit

Does declairing that one harvested a protected animal in a legal manner protect one from legal action? Just curious, never understood how the grackle thing worked. If I shot some for sport, was pulled over by a GW, and I told him they were eating my apple crop, would I be good to go? I know the burden of proof lies on the accuser.... this is a wierd law.

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Does declairing that one harvested a protected animal in a legal manner protect one from legal action? Just curious, never understood how the grackle thing worked. If I shot some for sport, was pulled over by a GW, and I told him they were eating my apple crop, would I be good to go? I know the burden of proof lies on the accuser.... this is a wierd law.

I didn't actually shoot those.

They expired near my backyard, and I gave them a proper burial after posing for the picture.

Good on ya!! But it is still a wacky law. Who ever decided to protect a flying rat?

It would be a bit awkward at the Huntsville dinner table explaining to the boys what you were in for.

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Does declairing that one harvested a protected animal in a legal manner protect one from legal action? Just curious, never understood how the grackle thing worked. If I shot some for sport, was pulled over by a GW, and I told him they were eating my apple crop, would I be good to go? I know the burden of proof lies on the accuser.... this is a wierd law.

Wait? Those cretins are _protected_?!

lkd wrote:

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Does declairing that one harvested a protected animal in a legal manner protect one from legal action? Just curious, never understood how the grackle thing worked. If I shot some for sport, was pulled over by a GW, and I told him they were eating my apple crop, would I be good to go? I know the burden of proof lies on the accuser.... this is a wierd law.

Wait? Those cretins are _protected_?!

You bet!

Insane but true...

This is from the Texas Parks and Wildlife website.

•Unprotected Birds:
◦The only birds not protected by any state or federal law are European starlings, English sparrows, feral rock doves (common pigeon - Columba livia) and Eurasian collared-doves; these species may be killed at any time, their nests or eggs destroyed, and their feathers may be possessed.
◦Yellow-headed, red-winged, rusty, or Brewer's blackbirds and all grackles, cowbirds (does not include cattle egret), crows, or magpies may be controlled without a federal or state depredation permit when found committing or about to commit depredations on ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in numbers and in a manner that constitutes a health hazard or other nuisance.

pbwalker wrote:

lkd wrote:

Carry-a-Kimber wrote:Does declairing that one harvested a protected animal in a legal manner protect one from legal action? Just curious, never understood how the grackle thing worked. If I shot some for sport, was pulled over by a GW, and I told him they were eating my apple crop, would I be good to go? I know the burden of proof lies on the accuser.... this is a wierd law.

Wait? Those cretins are _protected_?!

You bet!

Insane but true...

Round 'em up and deliver them to the home of whoever came up with that INSANE idea.

Sidro wrote:...or when concentrated in numbers and in a manner that constitutes a health hazard or other nuisance.

Oh, well, that pretty much means "Anytime you see a Grackle" then

lkd wrote:

Sidro wrote:...or when concentrated in numbers and in a manner that constitutes a health hazard or other nuisance.

Oh, well, that pretty much means "Anytime you see a Grackle" then

This.

Their squaks, even just one, is a nuisance.

As the son of a farmer, every single one shold be eradicated.

And quick, before some PETA hacko finds out and declares them an endangered species.