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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: Ken Adams who wrote (162019)4/8/2008 3:53:20 PM
From: Ken Adams   of 225578
 
Here's my favorite "shoot the bird" story. This was about 3 years ago. I heard a thump, thump at a front bedroom window. Investigating, I saw a robin sit on the window sill, fly up and into the window, bounce off and drop to the ground. In a minute it was back up on the sill, repeating the action. This went of for a couple days and I'd had enough.

I have a Crossman pellet pistol. Old, long barrel that you pump up several times for pellet propulsion. Fun to target shoot in the basement when the kids were little.

Insert pellet, pump 20 or 25 times. Go outside and steady myself against the side of the house about 15 feet from the bird on the sill. Steady... aim.... squeeze and POP! Slowly, the bird turned toward me for a second... then promptly flew off!

I almost wanted to stare down the barrel of the gun, like one of the 3 stooges might do. Taking the gun back to the basement and examining what went wrong I quickly learned that it hadn't been fired in so many years that it wouldn't hold the pumped up pressure long enough for me to get it outside and execute. The bird lives today, I guess, but he's never returned to my window. Neighbors think the birds were eating fermented berries on the ground out front and were drunk!

I still want to take that to a gunsmith and make it workable.
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