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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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!
@Dundee the magpie whisperer.
Use that new rem mag
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.
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.
Bait? Dead possum or rabbit with guts hanging out.
Or Google it and download and use your phone to play it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mooseman
@30calterry AKA the magpie dis-mantler.... any tips...
Get a serious air rifle so you can nail them past 50m. Wont be cheap though.
enjoy the hunt, once he's dead no more fun.
find where they nesting/roosting and take them out at night in nest/roost
.17 hornet Smoke them from bit further out. AKA just shoot it
I just got a Juvenile this evening with the 204. Not much left of it...:-)
22hornet
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nibblet
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 ;-)
Get a 223.:thumbsup:
Hard bro, when i get smash em.....:XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by longrange308
Yeah, We also have an HMR but the problem is its still in town and probably not big enought to shoot a .22 or .17HMR...... But yeah, those noises would be good thanks, pm me and I'll give you my email..Quote:
Originally Posted by GWH
I remember, one of the fellas here was using traps to get madgepies. That might work for you easier as lead in the air could get dodgy for the neighbors etc
They are clever birds with amazing eyesight - once they know you are after them it is hard to get near them
I know farmers round the Park here that use a magpie cage with mirrors - they get big numbers - 50 to 100 a year
I bought a magpie cage and a magpie decoy - used it for weeks and never got one - I have been told they are attracted to fat or lard by the cage - didn’t work for me
I bought an hmr and got a few - but never got on top of them
Bastard birds that chase any other bird that flies - Kereru and Tui are at risk - hawks just move on and then come back
We appreciate them on the orchard. Their territorial nature helped keep the fruit eating birds off our orchard
Get a possom cage trap and bait it with mutton fat,that way the bait won't get fly blown.Attachment 83490 Won't be long and you'll have a magpie grave.
Geez Dundee that amount of dead magpies would get you locked up over here cause they are protected here
but just as big a pest here as over there
When they are nesting they attack the kids in the school grounds and the grounds have to be closed off
If it was me I would be moving the magpies ''Permanently''
Over here they pretty much eat the same as the crows bugs, meat, grasshoppers, we catch a lot of crows with mince meat
in a trap or in a chook pen with a spring loaded door with a trip stick and a string way back at the house feed them for a couple
of days then trip the door whilst they are in there
That is very true. If you get a wounded squawker, it attracts others and they attack it. Like you, have had 4-5 on many occasions like thisQuote:
Originally Posted by berg243
if its close to your house open the nearest window and close the curtains for that window
put your rifle there and have a comfy chair
sit down with a book and wait for him to land where it suits you
leave that windows curtains closed permanently and when you see him poke the barrel out and end him
as bait: sardines but the ones in oil or water not chili flavor !
Wait until you see what we do to Possums.......Do you get green rain?Quote:
Originally Posted by rigga;689482[U
I have had to resort to this for starlings at our place, they are also very clever and after wasting 18 of the little bastards in a week I am now having to shoot them from windows and doors guerilla tactics as every time I step outside now they squak there distress call and take off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Recording of calls works well in low light on dusk or dawn if I can stay well hidden.
No starling decoys but I bet with the recording that would work mint.
sparrows in my shed are my current target, breeding season is here and the little shits come inside my shed and screamQuote:
Originally Posted by dannyb
the other option for bird control is alpha chloralose
pre feed them with something then spread the paste on it
you will still have to finish them off but they will be drunk and slow
We have plenty of native birds I don't want to kill and I have noticed since removing starlings the natives are coming to our trees more so win/win no starlings in roof and more natives in the trees, have been nailing the occasional sparrow too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill999
Get rid of the mynas as well
Just use a cage trap, not so smart when it comes to traps. Really easy to catch, bit of fatty mutton and he'll be in like Flynn
