Well, at least usually I’m not.
A while back we thought it would be a good idea to raise some chickens. Soon there were nine chickens in residence. Our neighbor raised about 40, so they were kind enough to bring over a mini-flock, including one rooster. Now comes the part about not usually shooting chickens. Within 30 minutes that rooster had attacked most of the “girls” as we call them, pecked them, foisted himself “upon” them, tried to attack me and generally made himself unwelcome. I called my neighbor and encouraged him to take a “return” on the rooster. “Nope, he’s yours now,” came the reply. I heard a laugh too, I’m sure of it.
-Alemaster
Damn, turns out I already have chicken guns.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was going to be about cut-off welding-gas cylinders and blackpowder...
Ed
Randy rooster become fired chicken.
ReplyDeleteMy chicken gun is a single shot 410 with eight rounds on the stock. They are out free ranging only if I’m out and around for the most part and the gun sits out on the deck if needed. Had a few close calls with hawks and fox but have only lost chickens to raccoons who broke into the coop.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. A good .22 is all you need for most pests. Unless of course, you live a little too close to a city.
ReplyDeleteA good few years ago I was a visiting engineer at an aircraft, military, research establishment. While walking through the big site my friend and local engineer pointed out a long tube sitting outside a building. He told me that that was the chicken gun.
ReplyDeleteIt fired thawed out frozen chickens at the vulnerable parts of aircraft, windscreens, engines, wing leading edges, etc. to test vulnerability to bird strikes.
The guy who operated explained to new acquaintances in pubs that his job was to shoot chickens.
There was a legend about a chicken, which was not completely thawed out when fired.It went right through the cockpit window.
Search for " Royal Canadian Air Farce " chicken cannon.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80s, I read a story about a poultry "cannon" used by US engineers to test bird strikes on planes. It was lent to some British engineers to test on their new high speed trains. The first test did not go as expected, with said bird smashing through the windscreen AND the conductor's seat, before lodging itself in the wall at the back of the cabin. Perplexed, the British engineers contacted their American counterparts to ask what went wrong. The terse response: "Thaw the bird first."
ReplyDeletethats the exact story I heard.
DeleteI've been watching a bunch of videos on rimfires and appropriate ranges. It seems most people don't consider a .22 to be useful at anything approaching 100 yards.
ReplyDeleteSilly me was never told that, so I've been taking game and punching targets at 200 to 250 yards for years. And according to the experts, a .22 can kill a human beyond 400 yards.
My old lab straighten out the neighbor's rooster. After third time dog retrieved him. the rooster would disappear every time the dog and I went for a walk around the property.
ReplyDeleteMy chicken gun is a suppressed .22 pistol. Confirmed on possums, skunks and tree rats. The coyotes haven't given me a good shot with a safe backstop.