Sea gull hunting

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Yesterday, I took the kids to Point Dume just north of Malibu. Great beach but the gulls were relentless. They have no fear of humans and attack blankets for any stray food. The lifeguard told me they even steal food out of peoples hands. I told her that they are just vermin, flying rats like pigeons...and they should allow hunting them in the early mornings. I waited for the typical Cali response but she actually agreed with me! A California bleach blonde who agreed with shooting birds! I would have fallen in love with her right there but she was about ten years older than me and had skin like naugahyde. :)
 
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I've often wondered the same thing. Years ago at the Boston Aquarium I smacked one that was trying to get at something I was eating. My wife was worried that I was going to get in some kind of trouble, I told her that I wouldn't let some stray dog come up and steal food from me, why would I a bird.
 
I am all in favor of Gull hunting, year round, no limit! Go to the landfill aka DUMP, great shooting could be had there.

Actually I think they should lock up all the little tourist kids who think it's great fun to feed them at the beach.;):D
 
Sip,

Long ago in my youth, when I was lobstering, the captain of the boat used to plink them with his rusty old Garand while we were motoring out to the pots... the .30-06 will really tear them up...

I understand that in the Scandinavian countries that Sea Gulls are considered Game Birds and as such are eaten!

But what you really need are more eagles...

Bald Eagle vs Seagull? - YouTube
 
I don't know if seagulls are protected or not, but I would guess that they are. I was born at the shore in southern NJ. We used to like to feed seagulls after dinner. The waste from porkchops or chicken is something they eat. I would walk out in the street with a plate of meat scraps and stand with my back to the wind. In nothing flat there would be a flock of gulls facing me and I fling the scraps up and watch the birds dive for them. Sometimes two birds will fight over a long scrap.

Gulls provide a service in nature, but if there are too many at the beach they can be a PITA. If i am not mistaken, the seagull is the state bird of Utah for saving a harvest one year by consuming huge quantities of locusts. Yes, it is the California Gull.
 
I recall reading a news report years back of two guys in a pickup truck...running over hundreds of gulls that were stuck due to heavy fog in a large parking lot. They were heavily fined. that news story mentioned the were Federally protected similar to migratory waterfowl.

But without a hunting season.

We have them here in MT and they have figured out that prairie dog hunters give them lots of PD pieces to feast on. Fairly quickly they are landing on the fields.

A .220 Swift with 50 gr frangibles at 4K fps...really turns them inside out...Thats what a guy told me...anyway.

FN in MT
 
The Vietnamese consider the eggs of gulls a delicacy -- I have done some pro bono work advising our local Vietnamese commercial fishermen (who are very hard workers) that they have to leave the gulls alone, including their nests.

Now that we have a thread on the gulls, we will need a thread on the buoys.:D
 
The bathrooms in my barn say "Drakes" and "Hens" -- we took a drake pintail decoy and a hen pintail decoy and sawed them in half (from duckbill to tail) and have them attached to the front of the doors.

I've been to a hunting lodge that had "Pointers" and "Setters" as bathroom designations.
 
sipowicz said:
I would have fallen in love with her right there but she was about ten years older than me and had skin like naugahyde. :)
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Ten years older than YOU? I thought all California lifeguards were blonde, 18 - 25 year old, perfectly tanned, gorgeous females! You mean I can't believe everything I see on TV????
 
Sebago Son said:
Sip,

Long ago in my youth, when I was lobstering, the captain of the boat used to plink them with his rusty old Garand while we were motoring out to the pots... the .30-06 will really tear them up...

I understand that in the Scandinavian countries that Sea Gulls are considered Game Birds and as such are eaten!

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My older brother while in the USMC & stationed in Iceland at the Navy Base in Reykjavik (sp?) told me he and a few others used to routinely take M1 Garands with them on perimeter patrol and shoot @ gulls. No one cared about the birds,, and the ocean was the backstop.
Plenty of long range plinking if you found that to be recreational.
He did,,not much else to do there.
 
I think they are protected, as much as I agree with pass shooting a few hundred a day. I read in the paper a few years ago about some guys down on the CMR Refuge that were shooting gulls and got fined pretty heavily. I don't remember if it was because they were on federal land, or the birds themselves. We have them all over the prairie out here believe it or not. THey follow tractors when they're tilling and grab the bugs and mice I suppose. Nasty things...
 
I'm aware of a 15 year old boy who once shot a Gull at about 150 yards, with a .22, and the bird dropped in a pile like a wet sock. The bird was off shore on some rocks, so it was impossible to inspect the bird and see where the bullet hit. That Seagull, and a headshot grouse offhand at about 100 yards while dear hunting, still amaze me. Lucky shots to be sure, but for a moment there was a great marksman on the planet!

Emory
 
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