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October 24, 2002, 06:14 PM | #1 |
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Will a goose go down with a 22LR?
Hey guys, help me settle an argument with one of my employees:
We're working near my house today on a roof. As usual this time of year, there's a couple hundred geese out in the field next to us. We start making the usual cracks about, "if I only had a shotgun right now," or "man, you don't need no shotgun, you could throw a rock in there and get three birds," blah, blah, blah. Usual man-banter near wildlife. One of my guys, an avid game bird hunter, says I should bring my AR-7 with me to work tomorrow and "get us some geese for supper." I relate to him a story from my youth where it was my job to kill our chickens one day, so I grabbed my 22. I musta shot the first chicken 14 times before I gave up and started chasin'm down with the axe. I told the co-worker a 22 would never work, but he insisted one good shot to the head would put a goose down. I don't have any experience with geese, but I'm skeptical. Don't want to get popped by the man during an "experiment", so I was just wondering if one of you guys knew? Will a goose go down with a shot to the head with a 22?
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October 24, 2002, 06:19 PM | #2 |
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Yes
A goose will go down from a 22 IF you get it in the HEAD.
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October 24, 2002, 08:45 PM | #3 |
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A. Yes
B. Neck, heart, Wing bone etc will work also. Bear in mind that a large part of the big bird you see is nothing but feathers. Easy to hit feathers, nuther thing altogether to hit bird. Hope this is purely academic; shootin any rifle in the air is bad mojo. Sam |
October 24, 2002, 09:29 PM | #4 |
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migratory birds can not be shot legally with anything except a shotgun ...
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October 24, 2002, 10:05 PM | #5 |
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Long Bow works too.
Or try this! Bread Ball and a #4 Treble Hook! Argue that you aren't hunting, but you just caught this REALLY WEIRD FISH! |
October 25, 2002, 12:19 AM | #6 |
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As an over-the-road trucker, I occasonally overnighted in a rest area next to a stubble field. One night I was awakened around 3am by a ridiculous number of LEO's, most with disco lights whirling and strobing. I managed to shout a question to a sergeant about whether I would be involved and should I move. The answer was no to both so I went back to bed in the sleeper. On my next trip on that route, I was able to quiz a deputy sheriff about the circus. The deputy said they had arrested a reefer driver who supplemented his income by shooting wild geese while they slept in the stubble field. The driver used a high quality air rifle, not named, and tossed the birds into the trailer with his frozen load for processing at a more convenient time and place. The end customers were reported to be restaurants in Chicago and Detroit. Two reasons were cited for the rest area bust: the driver had already been videoed delivering geese and, by nailing the driver after he had been videoed placing geese in the trailer, the truck became a tool of the crime and subject to forfeiture, a major added blow to an owner-operator.
If an air rifle was adequate for geese, a .22 is, too. Don't get caught!
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October 25, 2002, 06:40 AM | #7 |
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Oh no no no, this is purely academic. I'm no game bird hunter, except for turkey, which are in season. Birds are too much dang work cleanin if you ask me, so if I want a small moving target with a rifle, I'll go shoot some squirrels, which are also in season.
My employee's request for the AR-7 was purely rhetorical man-banter. Don't tell my friends, but I actually enjoy the sound of the geese every morning.
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October 25, 2002, 10:38 AM | #8 |
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Oh yes it will work................sometimes in my youth ( I still feel young ) when the geese are er were flying real high............or wayyyy out in a rice field...........well you get the idea.
Mama get the gumbo pot out........................goose? What goose? |
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