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I live near Beaverton and shoot nearby- rural only- and I know of one spot, close to you, where they are still THICK. They ask me to shoot them but it's boring with a single shot... shoot, spook, wait... A shot gun is the way to go and they allow that. hmmm, maybe I'll get a Rem 870.
This goes back some 30+ years...
A friend of mine and I were terrors on woodchucks, and used to shoot woodchucks in PA. At the time, I was a gunsmith and managed one of the largest gun stores east of the Mississippi - point being that ammo was cheap, if you know what I mean /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
One of our farmers had a huge starling problem one spring with seeding... he would drive the spreader truck with a mix of fertilizer and seeds, and black clouds of starlings would follow the spreader and pick up half of the seed.
So we worked out a deal where he put a 4"x12" plank across the back of the spreader and we sat up there with two cases of shotgun shells each. I was shooting a Browning 28ga O/U, and he was shooting a Rem 20ga 1100.
The starlings followed the spreader, swooping down to get the seeds and we shot the starlings as the farmer drove the tractor - it was endless wing shooting.
We would come home stinking like cow poo and our ribs hurting from all the laughter...
... riding shotgun on a $hit wagon /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
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