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

Get a 223.

Originally Posted by longrange308

Use that new rem mag

Hard bro, when i get smash em.....

Originally Posted by GWH

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 ;-)

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..

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. 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

Originally Posted by berg243

.. if you .. don't kill the first one with the first shot leave it and shoot the others, best I got was six like that ..

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 this

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 !

Originally Posted by rigga;689482[U

]Geez Dundee that amount of dead magpies would get you locked up over here cause they are protected here [/U]
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

Wait until you see what we do to Possums.......Do you get green rain?

Originally Posted by Bill999

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

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.
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.

Originally Posted by dannyb

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.
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 scream

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

Originally Posted by Bill999

sparrows in my shed are my current target, breeding season is here and the little shits come inside my shed and scream

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.