"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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Stephen wrote:
My wife likes to feed the birds but she is getting tired of feeding
squirrels and pigeons. I am thinking of getting a pellet gun and I am
wondering about how effective it is at shooting varmints like squirrels
and
pigeons. I have looked at a "gamo shadow 1000" pellet gun. The pellet
velocity is about 1000 fps with about 15 ft lbs of energy. The range
would
be less than 10 yards.

Would this pellet gun be an effective way to kill pigeons and squirrels?

Thanks
Scp



About three years ago I solved the problem by buying a "Yankee Flipper"
bird feeder:

http://www.yankeeflipper.com/droll/index.cfm

I got tired of having to drag out an extension cord to plug the wall
wart charger into and charge up the two C-cell nicads in the Yankee
Flipper, so I soon mounted a small solar panel on its top which lets the
sun do that job for me.

Much fun to watch each new crop of squirrels struggle to try and find a
way to beat it, but they learn pretty fast and stop trying, and then the
show is over for the season.

I felt a little bad about screwing the squirrels that way, so I
converted an old gumball machine the kids had outgrown into a squirrel
feeder and toss some dried corn in it once a month or so. It's all gone
in a day or two.

http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/jeff/nuts.jpg

It takes the little furry tailed roof rats almost no time to learn to
crank that wooden handle around with their paws and teeth. The chipmonks
will climb right inside the machine's chute leaving only their tails
sticking out.

Jeff (Who obviously has WAY to much time on his hands....)

I love it. You go to all that trouble to keep the squirrels out of the
feeder, and then you feed the squirrels.

You'd get along well with my wife. That sounds like our life, too. g

Ed Huntress