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most found varmint
« on: April 04, 2009, 10:02:05 AM »
What is the most found and easy to hunt(law way) varmint in the USA? besides black rats.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2009, 10:20:31 AM »
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2009, 01:22:15 PM »
Pidgons, Starlings or Crows.  Larry
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2009, 02:37:30 PM »
 ;) Never thought of starlings, but you are right. Shot 'em as a kid on the east coast, and here in Wy.  ;D My thought went to the old coyote as he is so wide spread. :o

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2009, 04:17:07 PM »
Groundhogs/rockchucks

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2009, 05:07:44 PM »
I believe they(groundhogs/rockchucks) are called marmots in some places too.

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2009, 06:45:22 PM »
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2009, 08:52:19 PM »
Never thought about Starlings and other pest birds...sounds like its pellet gun fun time here.

But there seems to be no shortage of Coyotes here in my area.  Seems like for every one I shoot at least two takes its place!

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2009, 06:31:56 AM »
Coyotes are predators, not varmints.

For varmints, here in the west it's an unlimited supply of ground diggers... ground squirrels, prairie dogs, rock chucks (marmots), etc.   As for how easy to hunt law wise, most are year-round with no license required, no closed seasons, no bag or possession limits and access to hunt plentiful on public land, very easy to obtain on private land.    Ease of the hunt itself, in some of the killing fields setting up a portable shooting bench/chair and shooting more or less non-stop from dawn to dusk without ever moving the bench would be considered pretty easy.   ;D    The reloading of thousands of rounds before a multiple day hunt is not though.   For the annual 10 day shoots I used to host for Belding GS's (Digger Wars), 10,000 rounds for up to a dozen and a half long range varmint rigs was not too much for each person to bring.

Picture is of just such a place that we called Digger Heaven.    It is a half mile wide by two miles long of CRP bordered by crop fields on one end/side and by BLM sagebrush on the others, with most of it having at least one occupied mound per couple of square yards on average.

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2009, 12:02:06 PM »
Around here cowbirds followed by grackles. This morning while sitting on the front porch I knocked off five or six cowbirds and a grackle. Used my .177 air rifle.


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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2009, 07:19:04 AM »
Far and away for us its pds. A good day on the farm is 300-400 shots. Even a quick run out to the pasture yields a few dozen, year round, thousands of acres from which to shoot and all ya need is a bit of sunshine.

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2009, 10:53:10 AM »
alright. starlings,Pidgons, and rats seem to be it. i was watching something on Nova called rat attack were there was 12,000 rats in some place in the far east there were eating up the rice. i always wanted to hunt ground squirrels, prairie dogs, rock chucks or something like that but i could never find the time or money to go to the states that have them.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2009, 03:26:57 AM »
One thing that 'first time shooters' often don't consider when they come out to shoot pds with me is the cost of ammo. Even if you handload your own you can run into $120 plus per day in ammo costs. I know in other places there can be even more shooting.......

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2009, 04:38:13 AM »
Around here cowbirds followed by grackles. This morning while sitting on the front porch I knocked off five or six cowbirds and a grackle. Used my .177 air rifle.

If you are ever in need of some cheering up, just send one of the 40gr HP CCI Maxi-mags in the direction of a grackle. The explosion is so intense that you can hardly find a long feather ;D

Starlings have to be #1 around here followed by ground squirrels and then the groundhogs. I do like to pick off the occasional crow but this is often just by chance. I do plink those Starlings & grackles cause the mean little suckers will snip off the tender vegetation of new garden plants. I will use my .177 air rifle but the CCI CB Short is actually quieter!. I guess that i am just not smart enough to "cage" the plants when they are young. The CB short also comes in handy for the feral or the SSS varmints.

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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2009, 06:30:29 AM »
Starlings in the summer time. They are a pest that do all types of hate crimes to other song birds.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #15 on: April 07, 2009, 09:42:45 AM »
i like my air gun cuase the ammo for it is only 1/2 cent, now if they just make a powerful air gun with a 12 shot quick change mag and i would be set. when i had my H&R .22lR any varmint withen 150 yards was a dead varmint.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #16 on: April 07, 2009, 10:49:14 AM »
I've got a couple of the .17 rimfires. I'm planning a day for me and the oldest grandson to go down to the farm and shoot some black birds and starlings. There should be a few squirrels to be had also. If we're lucky enough to shoot a couple, I'll teach him to skin them and cook them over an open fire. I know he'll be game for that.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #17 on: April 07, 2009, 10:56:32 AM »
crows fall in somewhere after the smaller birds around here .
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #18 on: April 07, 2009, 11:15:15 AM »
I was gonna say methheads, but probably coyotes, skunks, possums around here. My 82 yr old dad still lives on the farm and the possums continue to raid his dog food pans. He gave up on trying to see the .22 sights at night, now they get the 3" #4's from his old single .410. He averages 1 a week in good weather.
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Re: most found varmint
« Reply #19 on: April 08, 2009, 04:09:36 AM »
It would have to be coyotes here. Prariedogs are almost non existant due to being poisoned out. Jackrabbits are in their down cycle now and I haven't seen a rabbit in months. I guess the coyotes have taken care of what few 'dogs and rabbits there were. New Mexico is a bird friendly state. You can't shoot the ones that are pests except pigeons. If grackles become a real problem the game dept. will let you shoot them on occasion. We don't have crows and you have to leave the ravens alone. One of the most destructive birds is the roadrunner but that is our state bird so we have to love the ugly rascals.