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Thread: How to Get a Magpie.....HELP!

  1. 28-02-2018, 05:56 PM #1
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    How to Get a Magpie.....HELP!

    Hey Guys
    I am using an air rifle (Life Style block) but I can't seem to shoot a magpie, I have got a decoy etc but not a dead magpie...... Plz help!
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  3. 28-02-2018, 06:01 PM #2
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    @Dundee the magpie whisperer.
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    Use that new rem mag
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    Good luck with that, magpie are smarter than the average bird. Go for a walk unarmed and they will be a few meters away, take a gun and the shits are nowhere to be seen.
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    Buy a Magpie distress tape and play that. Set up close or under some trees as once the tape starts the birds will come in quick, be ready to shoot. You may get a couple of shots if you are lucky but the magpies wise up pretty quick those tapes do work, you may still be able to get them through the Regional Councils.
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    Bait? Dead possum or rabbit with guts hanging out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mooseman View Post
    Buy a Magpie distress tape and play that. Set up close or under some trees as once the tape starts the birds will come in quick, be ready to shoot. You may get a couple of shots if you are lucky but the magpies wise up pretty quick those tapes do work, you may still be able to get them through the Regional Councils.
    Or Google it and download and use your phone to play it.
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    @30calterry AKA the magpie dis-mantler.... any tips...
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    Get a serious air rifle so you can nail them past 50m. Wont be cheap though.
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    enjoy the hunt, once he's dead no more fun.
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    find where they nesting/roosting and take them out at night in nest/roost
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    .17 hornet Smoke them from bit further out. AKA just shoot it
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    I just got a Juvenile this evening with the 204. Not much left of it...:-)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nibblet View Post
    Or Google it and download and use your phone to play it.
    I have the mp3 file saved to my pc, i can send you the file and you can load it onto phone and play thru a bluetooth speaker etc.

    Do you have a 22? I live in town and back onto a reserve with a creek with a sheep paddock behind that, and I smoke the odd pest bird, water rat etc late at night when no one is around. Suppressor and subs, and its no louded than your air rifle ;-)
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