Re: question about shooting a hawk

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:57:37 -0500

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:21:57 -0500, "Shawn Pennington"
<smpenn30@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>I hate to even ponder this question but I think the time has come for me to
>consider it.
>
>A hawk has killed about 20 of my chickens over the past year and I noticed
>that a second (mate) has joined it recently and they seem to be building a
>nest right across the road from my house.
>
>I have never killed an animal and don't even own a gun but am considering
>buying one and killing the hawk lest my remaining few chickens fall prey.
>
>It is legal in Ohio to kill a hawk if it is killing domestic fowl when the
>incident is taking place (illegal to hunt them down).
>
>My question is what type of gun should be used to shoot a hawk at close
>range that would definitely kill him/her? I am a fairly good shot and do
>not want to injure the bird at all, if I do decide to shoot it I want it to
>die as humanely as possible. A friend has offered his 22 rifle.
>
>If there are other options to stop the hawk, other than penning my chickens
>up which I am not going to do, I'd definitely rather take a different course
>of action.
>
>Any thoughts?
>

a good high powered pellet gun will kill him.
over the counter no qustions asked when obtaining one.
you can get them with really nice scopes too.
silent... too... :)

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