The Airgun Show - summertime rabbit and crow shooting, PLUS the Gamo HPA MI Tactical on test… 

doing that with sub 12

@@daniellewis5413 Hi Dan, don’t get caught up with some of these RU-vid videos shooting Living things at long ranges. Yes people can kill With a sub 12ftlb Airgun at 50yrds and more. But it’s so easy to misplace your shot, the tick of your heart, slight gust of wind, the quarry moves at the last second and you have wounded a living thing that could take days or weeks to die. It’s one thing shooting targets and constantly hitting the kill zone, but totally different shooting live quarry. When some of these RU-vidrs brag about shooting quarry at 50 or70yds it’s only the inexperienced hunters who think they are good . If you want to shoot big bags edge your bets and get the closet shots you can. Field craft first.👍

Daniel must feel so privileged to have experienced both your expertise. Having two Hunter/Oracle's willing to dispense such wisdom is awe inspiring....but remember one thing, "beware of false prophets" because there's only 1 Andy Watkins.

No contest tbh

Hi Neil and thanks very much. I think the cap and badge came from Military 1st.

Hi Thomas. I was using an MTC Cobra F1 and Neil was suing an ATN X-Sight 4K Pro 5-20x.

@Broad Side ah, fair enough, skipped past that bit, was going off the video title

@Broad Side 👍🏼

@Broad Side 🤣🤣🤣🤣 where about my friend

I gave up with BASC thirty years ago. Why? Because all they were interested in was basically themselves, not the interests of the members they were “supposed “ to represent. Regards.

@@nigelwiseman2262 It's such a shame I agree entirely with your observations.It is not the organisay Stanley Duncan would recognise today.I do believe transitioning from WAGBI to BASC was done with all "shooting sports" in mind,not today though!.Thanks for your thoughts.All the best.Tony

Hi Chris. It's interesting because to a certain extent I think it is a learned behaviour. On one of my farms the corvids don't seem interested in the lambs and the farmer says she's never had an issue with them, so I leave them alone. I'm guessing perhaps there is enough in the way of other food / protein for them to not need to attack the lambs. However, on the farm in the video rooks and crows are a huge issue. Once they can move around, lambs are usually ok, but newborn lambs born in the field can have several rooks and crows on them within seconds. They'll even congregate around a ewe when she is ready to give birth and then attack as soon as the lamb hits the ground. I see jackdaws less often, but they will if they get the chance. Perhaps its down to food availability locally - if the corvids get what they need (protein?) from other sources they don't need to attack the lambs. But if they don't, then the lambs become fair game. At the end of the day, pest control is about controlling pests that present a threat. I've said before that in my view 'a pest is only a pest when it is being a pest'. That's my way of viewing that a bird doesn't need to be shot just because it is on the GL. By the same logic I'll leave rabbits and squirrels alone if they are not having a detrimental impact on their local environment/eco-system. I hope that helps. Rich.

@@richsaunders6515 If it's happening that often, I'm guessing you could film it with all the equipment that you have, a Rook attacking a Lamb, not eating a stillborn or clearing up the afterbirth.?

@@chrisjohn4101 Seems to me that he gave you a pretty clear, comprehensive and honest answer. Also seems to me that you wouldn't be happy with any answer other than 'You're 100% right Chris and I'm 100% wrong." Either that or you're calling him a liar?

You're joking,aren't you? Dick goes out without zeroing his gun, fluffing shots like a drunk man with a blunderbuss...has to go home..but returns after some diazepam and a rifle change to FAC gun...after staying up all night on the range. Andy's the man, but then again you're an Oracle...so who am I to contest.

Really, all from the man making snide remarks to others, epitomising an arsehole.

We? Who's that...I'm guessing by 'we' that you mean the cubscouts you have enticed into your basement with Haribos, and intend to bugger

Those poor cubscouts...

I think I can hear their screams...

What do you take? A pointed stick?