Custom Crosmans great for back yard.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

When equipped with a match barrel, longer bolt probe, gas port and valving mods and a trigger job, these inexpensive pump and Co2 guns are great for in town. The other day I plugged a yellow beak perched on a wire 40 yards away with a .177 pellet. This rifle has a Walther Lothar barrel I ordered from Crosman. It was a part from their Challenger target rifle. I also have some .22 caliber guns that I fitted with FX barrels that Airguns of Arizona was blowing out a few years back. I have made them nearly silent as well. Makes me pretty happy to dump pigeons, starlings and grackels from my deck.

[Tatume]

Grackles are native birds, and in most states are protected.

[Minerat]

The Grackles are also on the migratory bird treaty list like Magpies and raptors.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Grackles are native birds, and in most states are protected.

That is indeed interesting. We have always treated them as pests.

[Boolseye]

I have a Model 1 .22 that my dad bought me when I was about 14, new. I rebuilt it last year and it’s a tack driver, probably getting about 10 lbs. of energy. My 760 pump from the nineties must get 6 or 7.


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[DougGuy]

My favorite is a Benjamin Marauder pistol in 22 caliber. It's a PCP not a pump or springer or CO2 action but with a little transfer port work these things are especially lethal on tree rats. Tree rats will devastate a garden. Take a big bite out of every green tomato on the vine.

I had one that wouldn't group very well at all, sent it back to Crossman and they replaced it. The new one puts a group into a dime across the back yard, they tell me there is either a great barrel or a wonky barrel for these, I think the good one is the Green Mountain barrel. There are aftermarket barrels as well which really changes the game but they cost as much as the pistol cost new.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I have a Model 1 .22 that my dad bought me when I was about 14, new. I rebuilt it last year and it’s a tack driver, probably getting about 10 lbs. of energy. My 760 pump from the nineties must get 6 or 7. Either will do for your average feathered friend. Don’t usually shoot birds but house sparrows are wrecking my girlfriend’s eaves. Can you still get that rifled barrel from Crosman that fits on the 760? I know that was a really common mod.

Unfortunately my chrony took a direct hit from a Hatsan 135 the other day. No fps measurements for awhile.


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Never worked on a 760. Shot one quite a bit though. Also a 2077 pump pistol. Crosman does sell lots of parts and they are not expensive. You need to download the parts schematic for your gun and call them with the part numbers. The Co2 and pumps pistols are what I start with. First comes a steel breech and a butt stock if I'm making a rifle. Then aftermarket parts from guys on the airgun forums. Amazing what you can wind up with.

[DCP]

Migratory Bird Treaty Act Protected Species (10.13 List)


https://www.fws.gov/birds/management...ed-species.php

[vonfilm]

In reading from the law, Zotter said, "Grackles may be killed only when found committing or about to commit depredation."

When presented with that terminology, local game warden Mark Collins laughed and said he had never seen a grackle that was not "committing or about to commit depredation."

[Cosmic_Charlie]

They never fail to commit depredation on songbirds or my ears for that matter.

[Boolseye]

I was at a local river access yesterday and a little flock of grackles showed up near my car. They have a really beautiful iridescence in the feathers on their head and neck.

I never see them near my house out in the woods. They seem to be more of a town bird around here.


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[Tritium]

My local buzzard just loves them when I pile them up for him. It takes special skill to debone a grackle and he is an expert!

[Silvercreek Farmer]

10s of thousands of grackles this winter, most I have ever seen, but they moved on. Thought they were starlings at first and wanted to see what 5 rounds of #8 would do to a flock, but aborted once I realized they were grackles.