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Air rifle or shotgun.

  • 15-01-2019 4:03pm
    #1
    minktrapper
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    Air rifle or shotgun. Which do he think is better at controlling crows,jackdaws and nappies around farm yards during the winter.


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  • #2
    TheBoyConor
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    shotgun. You'd want to be some marksman to go shooting crows with a rifle of any sort.


  • #3
    solarwinds
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    Personally I think for in and around sheds I would go with the air rifle.


  • #4
    nophd08
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    Air rifle all day long, but you need to be in a hide as such or well hidden. You'll drop 2 or three crows sometimes with a silenced air rifle before they know what is going on. Safe to shoot inside sheds also. Can't imagine letting off a shotgun in a yard/shed full of livestock


  • #5
    minktrapper
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    Thanks for the replies. I thought the shotgun would win out. I have being using a shotgun lately. I got a bunch of them this morning with the shotgun. Tried the air rifle last week with no sucess. I must try the rifle again just to see if it would match the shotgun for numbers killed. Every situation is different I suppose. The noise from the shotgun doesn't seem to bother the stock too much so long as you keep a few yards away from the shed.


  • #6
    meathstevie
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    nophd08 wrote: »
    Air rifle all day long, but you need to be in a hide as such or well hidden. You'll drop 2 or three crows sometimes with a silenced air rifle before they know what is going on. Safe to shoot inside sheds also. Can't imagine letting off a shotgun in a yard/shed full of livestock

    Shooting crows and magpies in a friend's yard off and on in the last few weeks. The cattle don't give a fiddlers about it but the sheepdog is gun shy.


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  • #7
    The pigeon man
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    If I could only have one gun it'd be a shotgun. I find that cattle don't really mind the noise, they get used it like the noise of any farm machinery. I think you'll have more success starting off with a shotgun.


  • #8
    Cass
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    Another vote for the shotgun. A better all purpose firearm and while it might not be as good as an air rifle in say one particular scenario (sheds) it is better in most others.
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  • #9
    juice1304
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    I would only shoot them with a shotgun as i have seen crows shot with air rifles fly away .


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