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I was given a BB gun and instructed not to point it towards people or birds.
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I was given a BB gun and ammunition and instructed to kill all the English sparrows, grackels, starlings, magpies,squirrels, mice, rats, rattlesnakes and anything else that might either bother the farm animals or eat their feed ..... my brothers and I were usually down to shooting grasshoppers and locusts by the end of July, having killed or run off all the "legal targets" (Mom's Robins and Goldfinches were "protected species", and even shooting at them would result in a spankin' .... damage to any siblings or property, likewise ..... ) on the farm.