Originally Posted By: crabbies3i used to have a pig farm that i shot starlings on. the farmer fed the pigs with stale old bread by the truck load. the birds were in there by the thousand. some real fine wing shooting until they build a shopping center close by and the complaints of noise shut us down and the shooting stopped. tks ken
The best wing shooting I ever had was Starlings.
Back about a million years ago, a friend and I used to shoot chucks on a large farm in Pennsylvania - one spring, the farmer was plagued by a large flock of starlings at seeding time.
He would drive a large truck with a rotating spreader in the back (like a road salt spreader) - with a mix of manure and seed. Then he would follow up and roll the seed under so it could grow.
But that year, the flocks would follow his seed spreader and eat the seed before he had a chance to follow up and fold over the seeds.
My friend and worked it out so we sat on a 2"x10" plank across the bin of the truck.
My friend shot a Rem 20ga 1100, and I shot a Chas Daley 28ga O/U.
We each had three cases of #9 skeet loads, and shot starling off the back of the truck as it went over the fields...
It was the most damm fun I had in years, and we laughed so hard that our ribs hurt. When we got back home, they made us eat dinner outside on the back deck
