I have always found the best bait for crows to be anything orange. The nosey bastards can't resist it. The ultimate is a bag of Cheetos or Wotsits. Just open the bag and lay it down with half a dozen pieces on the ground, one hour before sunset.... I grew up in Aberdeenshire Scotland and now live in California...and "orange is still king". For what it's worth.
l find soaked bread with small seed mixed in when its sloppy they carnt take big lumps of bread so large bits of bread and it keeps them were you want them
Love the channel, i went to a local county show last week with our business and on my day off i took my 13 yr old son, who has never shot before to the BASC country display area. He shot 10 shots from a BSA Ultra and had under a 3/4" group at 15 yds. The instructor was very impressed and shook my hand. I said i had never introduced him to airgun shooting and wanted to as i have been out of the sport for 20 years. Now i have ordered a new rifle for him to cut his teeth and for me to get back into the sport. I really miss it, so cant wait for more shooting fun and adventures.
Hi. I'm a wildlife manager from Norway. When I was in school we did a exsamination on feeding birds and found that it actually do not matter all that much, the one thing that matter is the proximity to shelter from predators. I think maybe this could be a fakotor that could bias your survay on what crows prefer as well
Oh wow! Has it really been 8 years since this aired? Not sure why it poppes up again. I do miss the airheads episodes though. Pretty sure I commented back then but only 78 comments show.
Great video as usual, can I just say in your Hot Air segment that 16" Rat was beaten in size this week in Ireland, a Rat mesuring 24" was caught in a roof space of a house of Brownsbarn area.again well done a keep the info coming.
I too have tried a plethora of pellets & concur that a quality round head is most reliable with honorable mentions going to The Crosman Destroyer which is a hollow point, with a point that is pretty accurate & has a lot of damaging impact energy,... The other being the Crosman Gold Flight which is "okay" for accuracy but excellent for penetration so it's great for close head shots.
I feel really disappointed that I have waited 2 weeks for this rubbish episode. This show is going downhill. You are trying to cram too much into a short show. Please do some proper segments that really absorb the viewer and last more than 2 minutes. Rambling old men for 2 or 3 minutes just won't cut it I'm afraid!
Great show fella's really liked the footage James got using different baits for crows, I've always had great success with a dead rabbit but heard of a gentleman who's favorite bait for his Larsen trap was a carton of fish and chips. Oh and who was making a horse's ass of themselfs behind Roy at the end?
H'mmm Roy and Charlie,..hear what the guys below have said,.and you want my 2 cents worth,?.no,?..well you're going to get it anyway,...They're correct ! You last show was great, this week,.was errr weak ! We'll be here in 2 weeks waiting as always, with 'baited' breath,....ohoooooo the puns!
Charlie, get a grip man, HMS Hood does not warrant a comparison. There's more going on in our sport to include in Airheads and if you're stuck for ideas ASK. Nice bit about Crows.
Some good points but not the best episode still liked though. I look forward to this every week. More NV and airgun tests plus Roy out foxing and ratting Thanks for your efforts Charlie & Roy.
if you love your birds than set them free!!! so they can look for food as nature intended, train to be in the wild. they should not be dependent on you to survive people should never feed birds, because they are being ''deprived '' from using their natural instinct to fend from themselves. >?????
I meant 'elevation angle' - which I think is the same as cant. My sloppy use of 'elevation'. Isn't lateral tilt the measurement for pitch correction? Sorry you didn't like it. I want this to be a fun way to explain airgun ballistics. The next one is a re-cre of sharpshooting at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse... you might not like that either! / Charlie
I do find the historic angle (pun intended) a nice addition, especially if you use that story to teach an (air)gun novice ballistic principles. For the Hood-Bismark example, you might be better off having asked the question before you bring this historical challenge to the table. Add some Frits smack talk and you're set :D High arc shooting is also fun with paintball markers btw. And if your garden is long enough why not load up some monster pellets in a dialled down PCP and have a blast. Great to have some long distance fun with an air-rifle.
+braden white Weihrauch HW97K/T - I put a TinBum baffle kit in my silencer and it dulls it down even more. Taken more vermin than I can think of with that beast.
It doesn't matter how many "real guns" you have. If you've never hunted with air rifles you're the one missing out. I kill more small game with an air rifle than I do anything else because it's quieter doesn't alert other game in the area. I've killed multiple squirrels from the same tree several times because they couldn't figure out what was going on.
Being able to hit something doesn't necessarily make it effective. Would it be likely to bounce off? YES, the odds of a humane kill? LOW So yes the "effective" range of a .177 is way below 100 meters
