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Salute cannon obliterates bird.
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https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...381#post131389
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...845#post198442
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...287#post138723
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...800#post159922
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...408#post135400
Just when you think they can't make magnum loads for bird hunting any more powerful...
I don't think that's an ACME cannon...
And I thought the baseball pitcher hitting the bird was funny....
A friend of mine used to have a ceremonial 42mm cannon shaped mortar sitting at the base of his flagpole, that he would often load up with black powder and use golf balls as the wadding, one day he fired it off and hit a hawk that had been circling, in the tip of its wing. Didn't seem the do much more than knock the feathers off the wing tip but that hawk spun out of the air like an airplane in a flat spin barely recovered before hitting the ground.
Everyone wants to fly, but no one wants to get shot out of the sky...
I shot a mallard out of a flock that was flying at least 1/4 mile overhead. Fired a single shot, while randomly pointing my .22 pump rifle toward the birds. I was quite surprised to see the poor bird break out of the flock, and while futilely flapping one wing, fly into the ground at a 45º angle. Bullet had broken a wing. I had been hunting rabbits with another high school friend, and told him I meant to do it.
I do hope you were WAY OUT in the boonies when you did that!!!
We, usually, didn't hunt in town.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
So would this be called shredded tweet?
Talk about being in the wrong spot at the wrong time! I hope the poor bird was vaporized instead of just being badly burned but still able to feel.
With the amount of feathers I saw flying and the shear concussion I doubt that there was much left of that bird. Instant as it gets. I'm no fan of seagulls ( I think it was a seagull ) but nor do I think it's great to hurt them. If you are going to shoot them do it right. And like I taught my sons don't shoot what you don't plan on eating. Racoons excepted. They were eating my chickens. That's for me to eat thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by graniteguy
When we first moved out here and for the first several years, hardly a week went by that I didn't shoot some varmint Ranging from bobcats to skunksQuote:
Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko