Can a BB gun kill a bird? Warning dead animal photo!

[wnwitzell]

Some one earlier posted whether a b&b gun could kill a bird or not. Well, I shot at a jack rabbit terrorizing my wife's garden and I will be darned if I didn't actually hit it (20 yards) and it flipped over DOA! What a shock for the little lady as she was sure I wouldn't hit it....
What a shock. Lots of shouting and accusations. Did it. I am also shocked. I am proud of the shot.....

 

[Alpo]

So where's the "dead animal picture"?

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...friend and I back in elementary school would pump his bb gun up taking turns on the lever...would do about 250 pumps...bb came out at about Mach 3...woulda stopped a Sherman tank...

 

[ParadiseRoad]

So where's the "dead animal picture"?

...only one picture in his post...up there in the far left corner...must be it...

 

[wnwitzell]

Picture wouldn't post... File too big.

 

[wnwitzell]

I'll try again

 

[OLDSTER]

BB Gun

You guys must shoot lead BBs through a rifled barrel My old BB gun I owned as a kid had a "slice" like a bad golf shot. Any creature over 10 feet away was perfectly safe

 

[Hillbilly77]

Mice, chipmunks, birds, etc.....

Many a critter fell to my Crosman 760 Pumpmaster when I was a kid.

 

[GatorFarmer]

Did you use a pellet or a bb for the shot? I did not notice an obvious wound, where did you hit it?

 

[Mickey D]

Oh, Alice is going to be upset.

 

[Alpo]

Those pump-up pellet rifles are not what immediately pops to my mind when I hear "bb gun".

That thing? Heck yeah. Deadly as all get-out.

One of these? Probably not.

 

[kozmic]

I pop squirrels in the butt when they venture too close to our bird feeders. Over the years I've inadvertently sent a few to their maker. Regardless, they don't seem to learn.

I will also plink at crows when the get out of line like they often do with the song birds.

 

[wnwitzell]

Shot with bb. I don't know where I hit it because the Mrs. was going nuts when it fell over. She was sure I wouldn't hit it at that distance (neither was I) and was stunned when it dropped. It was a neighborhood favorite even though it ate every plant so I can't brag about it to the neighbor ladies.... Some desert creature ate it last night, leaving only the tail. Well at least it got recycled.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...that guy's dead...you better believe it...

I'll try again

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h57UR-oIE_g[/ame]

 

[Road Rat]

As a young lad living on a farm my first BB gun killed many a bird!

So, I vote YES to the question........

 

[keninnavarre]

Some one earlier posted whether a b&b gun could kill a bird or not. Well, I shot at a jack rabbit terrorizing my wife's garden and I will be darned if I didn't actually hit it (20 yards) and it flipped over DOA! What a shock for the little lady as she was sure I wouldn't hit it....
What a shock. Lots of shouting and accusations. Did it. I am also shocked. I am proud of the shot.....

couldn't help laughing at that....picturing the scene in my mind with my somewhat skewed sense of humor (so I'm told)

I did something similar awhile back, pleading the 5th on the details, but it got me slapped up side of my head by my lovely bride...

 

[GatorFarmer]

Good kill. I wonder if the rabbit had a heart attack from shock or some such.

If you get another one, try frying it up. Rabbit is tasty.

 

[Jack Flash]

Yes, birds will fall when hit by a well-aimed BB. When I was a kid, sparrows inhabited our barn and had a propensity to ... uh ... "paint the combine white". Dad objected to such behavior and heartily approved when they fell to my AA fire.

I never shot a barn swallow or barn owl. I thought "Hey, if your first name is "Barn", you have a right to be here!"

 

[VictorLouis]

The pigeons no longer try roosting in my backyard palm. I've taken down several with single-stroke pneumatic air pistol, and a a couple with spring rifles.