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magpies

  • 19-05-2010 8:53pm
    #1
    sidebyside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭


    just wandering do ye find catching magpies in a trap or shooting them more of a success?getting a little hardship with the little cxxts.


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  • #2
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Larsen trap, you'll have much better results when you compare time invested and results gained compared to shooting.


  • #3
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    johngalway wrote: »
    Larsen trap, you'll have much better results when you compare time invested and results gained compared to shooting.

    I caught a jackdaw in mine today:confused:


  • #4
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    I caught a jackdaw in mine today:confused:

    Yeah, that's happened me near the village but not on my own farm so far.


  • #5
    Johnny_Coyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 50 ✭✭Johnny_Coyle


    Back in the auld days we used to eat the pigeons we shot.

    Indeed in the even older days, we used to ship them out to Germany.

    Then the lads starting shooting crows and sending them :-0

    Never did eat a magpie. Has anyone?

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/does-pigeon-mea/

    Alternatively, you do know where the "trap" in trap and skeet comes from, right? How about "pull" or "dead bird."

    Got a bird in your trap - pull!


  • #6
    ianoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭ianoo


    caught 35 magpies in a larson trap in my back garden laet year ,that would have been a lot of hours shooting ...so the larson trap wins out for me


    ian


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  • #7
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    I caught a jackdaw in mine today:confused:

    Can I have a loan of it, my place is riddled with the Pyebalds!


  • #8
    No6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭No6


    I got between 20 and 30 last year around my house with a borrowed trap, theres none moved in around here yet this year!!!:D which is just as well as I dont have the trap anymore!!!


  • #9
    bunny shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭bunny shooter


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Can I have a loan of it, my place is riddled with the Pyebalds!

    Never get a horse into a larsen trap :p

    http://www.theipsa.com/


  • #10
    rmnrgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭rmnrgn


    Does anyone have a "spare" magpie for a larsen trap? Kildare, South Meath region. Thanks.


  • #11
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Can I have a loan of it, my place is riddled with the Pyebalds!

    Yea of course Tack. Give me 2ish weeks though. Just want to clear the uncles place


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  • #12
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Yea of course Tack. Give me 2ish weeks though. Just want to clear the uncles place

    No bothers, I can count on average 20 magpies a day around me.
    The noise of them in the yard in the morning.


  • #13
    sidebyside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭sidebyside


    whats the best bait for the little wanxxxs


  • #14
    ceduffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭ceduffy


    2 words ..... larsen trap


  • #15
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    sidebyside wrote: »
    whats the best bait for the little wanxxxs

    Road kill, or a nice head shot bunny:D


  • #16
    Eddie B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    sidebyside wrote: »
    whats the best bait for the little wanxxxs

    A call bird!:D


  • #17
    yessam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭yessam


    The larsen trap will work for grey crows also.


  • #18
    Sika98k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Sika98k


    If anyone wants a call bird I have plenty. N E Wicklow,collection only :D
    Thats sounds a bit glib. I have 6 traps working so have plenty of spare magpies


  • #19
    rmnrgn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭rmnrgn


    Hi Sika98, could you pm me with your address? I could call over and collect a bird if you have one to spare.
    Thanks


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