spring is around the corner......THE BUZZARDS ARE BACK!

[Matthew Hopkins 1,065]

commiefornia may have their puny little swallows ( the piss ant of the bird world) returning to capistrano, but here in NE Ohio we have the mighty buzzards.

 

http://fox8.com/2013/03/15/hinckley-buzzards-are-back/

 

 

 

 

[Voltia 375]

Polish pheasants!

[gunman1 1,753]

They taste like chicken

[Maxwelhse 1,285]

In NE IN (NW OH), we have the damn Canadian Geese... Somehow, those bastards are "environmentally protected"....

 

I once heard that a goose can shit 7lbs in a day...

 

Where is my shotugn??!?!?!!!!

[jwulf 179]

Canadian geese protected? Come north a state to SD. We opened a spring goose season to help thin the population.

[timy 1,185]

They taste like chicken

 

Spoiled chicken, though.

[Capt Nemo 882]

Honkers are nothing but flying shit bags! 7 lbs? More like 10 from the way 1 family can shit up the back yard!

 

The best was the RPG firing 1 oz report skyrockets.

 

Had to switch to an airsoft machine gun to drive them off, but it wouldn't keep them away very long.

 

Switched to the Red Rider as it provides for a little more sting, but still bounces off the feathers at 25 yds. But you can play artillery, and lob them out to 100. And I'm getting good at it, as I can usually land one within 3 ft at 75-100.

 

Would just love to Saiga the whole bunch and be done with it!

[Lone Eagle 839]

We used to deal with the Canuck Geese at the casino in WA State I worked for. If they had goslings, the male was an aggressive little snot. One security officeer was fired for using one for a football when it charged him. He punted that sucker a good 40-50 yards across the parking lot.

 

Ask those people on US Airways Flight 1549 what they think of the damn things.

[Sim_Player 1,939]

Damn. It's been 30 years since I lived in Ohio but, I recognize the radio station icon ("The Buzzard"), lol. I lived in Summit County when I was about 13.

 

What were the station call letters? I can't recall.

 

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I would skip the bus to middle school and go listen to the radio in my under ground fort. I remember the Dems were talking about how Ronald Reagan was going to get us killed at the time and the local radio station played a song titled, "Let's nuke Libya". "Straight eighties".

 

Can we go back to a time when we worried about exterior threats?

Edited March 16, 2013 by Sim_Player

[Long Shot 1,287]

Thats Interesting. Buzzards don't immigrate here, year round turkey vultures spring, summer, winter and fall. When I was just a lad my dad told me if you shoot at one and don't kill it they will dive bomb you with puke as a defense mechanism. "And think about what they eat" he said. I thought he was just fuckin with me so I wouldn't take pot shots in the air. Turns out it's the truth. Who knew.

 

 

 

Honkers only stay if someone feeds them or they find a place so enticing they just can't justify leaving like the Santiam or Willamette River basin.

 

I would fill the freezer with honkers when I was a kid growing up on the South Santiam River. Good times with split shot on fishing line loops in 12 gauge at 13 years old. I remember bringing my dads flight king with me to school so I could hunt the river on the way home after. A lot has changed in 34 years.

[Sim_Player 1,939]

Unfortunately our habitat, for shooting, is declining literally and figuratively. Ultimately, owning guns will come down to "self-defense"

 

I don't want to be there.

Edited March 16, 2013 by Sim_Player

[Matthew Hopkins 1,065]

Damn. It's been 30 years since I lived in Ohio but, I recognize the radio station icon ("The Buzzard"), lol. I lived in Summit County when I was about 13.

 

What were the station call letters? I can't recall.

 

 

 

it's WMMS