This is slightly off subject, but it is about pellet guns.
My brother is a biologist and has worked for the local HUGE power company for over 30 years, mostly doing soil and wildlife samples for the environmental control section, making sure they're not polluting. One part of the job that he's taken on as his special domain is control of the pigeon population in their facilities all over 3 states. After consultation with state pest control authorities it was determined that the best and safest method was by shooting them. Poisoning being too indiscriminate and nothing else working very good at all.
About twice a month he's sent to one of their many facilities where the pigeons have become a problem and he spends a few hours in the evening, from just before dusk until about 10:00 PM and again the next morning from about 4:00AM until an hour or so after dawn, shooting pigeons off their roosts inside the buildings of the plant. There's hundreds of pipes and wire conduits running thru the walls from outside and there's no way to keep the birds out. They fly in at night to roost and make a terrible mess under their sleeping spots. Because he's inside the buildings and there's electrical and high pressure lines running everywhere he's limited to shooting a pellet gun, anything bigger would be perforating stuff that shouldn't be perforated.
The company has bought him 2 nice guns, both 20 cal and both sporting Leupold scopes, one with a light mounted on top for night shooting. I know one is a Beeman and I believe the other is an RWS. He keeps a logbook and sometimes shoots over 100 birds in a session. He's always calling me after a shoot to brag about his success, LOL, just like he's been on a PD hunt or something. Last year he killed over 2200 birds and quite a few feral cats.
Gets sent off in a company truck, with a company credit card for food and lodging and a rifle and ammo supplied. Sneaks around in a company facility shooting pigeons all night and GETS PAID FOR IT!!
How about that for a job?
My brother is a biologist and has worked for the local HUGE power company for over 30 years, mostly doing soil and wildlife samples for the environmental control section, making sure they're not polluting. One part of the job that he's taken on as his special domain is control of the pigeon population in their facilities all over 3 states. After consultation with state pest control authorities it was determined that the best and safest method was by shooting them. Poisoning being too indiscriminate and nothing else working very good at all.
About twice a month he's sent to one of their many facilities where the pigeons have become a problem and he spends a few hours in the evening, from just before dusk until about 10:00 PM and again the next morning from about 4:00AM until an hour or so after dawn, shooting pigeons off their roosts inside the buildings of the plant. There's hundreds of pipes and wire conduits running thru the walls from outside and there's no way to keep the birds out. They fly in at night to roost and make a terrible mess under their sleeping spots. Because he's inside the buildings and there's electrical and high pressure lines running everywhere he's limited to shooting a pellet gun, anything bigger would be perforating stuff that shouldn't be perforated.
The company has bought him 2 nice guns, both 20 cal and both sporting Leupold scopes, one with a light mounted on top for night shooting. I know one is a Beeman and I believe the other is an RWS. He keeps a logbook and sometimes shoots over 100 birds in a session. He's always calling me after a shoot to brag about his success, LOL, just like he's been on a PD hunt or something. Last year he killed over 2200 birds and quite a few feral cats.
Gets sent off in a company truck, with a company credit card for food and lodging and a rifle and ammo supplied. Sneaks around in a company facility shooting pigeons all night and GETS PAID FOR IT!!
How about that for a job?