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Say your hunting Squirrel with your light bow, rifle, or slingshot. You come across two mating squirrels, thet are distracted, is this an oppurtunity ( mostly for slingshot or bowhunters) to get close to them and pick one off, or actually both of them? I don't know if this would be considered interrfering with nature:)......or anything, but has this happened to anyone. Or any other game you have hunted has this happened. I tell ya if I was the male squirrel I would still keep doin what i was doin if i saw a boy with a small bow pointing an arrow at me. Nah im just playing thats nasty.

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wait till its over then shoot. lol you got to much time on your hands thinking of wierd stuff like that. lol

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Today I shot(with a slingshot)a grackle in my yard and the rock passed through aleaf which slowed it down to like 100 fps and the bird dodged it.

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Whats a grackle

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A grackle is a bird that is the approximate size, shape, and color off a crow. It just .................isn't.

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I was wondrin about that myself... thanks for the clarification

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grackles also if look at em at the angle their heads shine kinda greenish

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Down here(Florida) gracckle heads are black/ dark purple/ mallard duck neck green. Well, theyre black, that's the head's color. Today I saw a squirrel lifting it's leg to urinate like a male dog. And when I shot at it a grackle flew up from the othe side of my yard. I hit the squirrel but it was a tiny rock so it didnt kill it. My main supply of rocks is from my neighbor's pond and I haven't jumped the fence in a while. I need to get to Wal-Mart to get some ammo. Or BPS I'm going there this weekend to shoot my bow.

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Hey I used to live in Florida, actually Jacksonville for 8 years, but I didn't hunt back then. And I would reccommend getting those slingshot hunting pellets, I use rocks but sometimes when im only 12 feet away from a Cottontail Rabbit, all it does is stun thierbody ( which I try to get a headshot, which rarely happens) and they run off into the bush. I don't like doing this because it wounds them and when I come back the stunned Rabbit is lying in the grass, half alive andnot capable of moving,then comes my dirty part of the job, which is to snap the Rabbits neck. Thats why I purchase the steel slingshot rounds and those fly correctly and pack more of a punch. The only clean kill I have made with a slingshot firing rocks was about 4 weeks ago, I got about 16 feet away from a big Cottontail, I was with my buddys, and they help me herd the Rabbit closer to me, and I nailed it in the head. Instant kill, fractured skull. I still got the hide.

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Cool, I like shooting a slingshot, but have only shot rocks with little luck in the accuracy department. But soon will get the ammo for em to try out.

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I was imagining my Ex's face on my targets and was shooting 2" groups w/ rocks LOL. I got the slingshot ammo today, 3/8". I got new arrows too yay and my dad paid not me!!! I still have to practice with the slingshot today.

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haha lol, your ex's face, I just broke up with my girlfriend becasue she left to visit her granparents the whole summer and I haven't seen her in like two months, so I told her it was over. Anyway, Im about to go pick up some broadheads and a couple arrows at walmart or something. I will try to put a picture of me holding a dead rabbit, next time I go hunting, hopefully with my new broadheads.

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DeathDeer- How fast do the arrows on your 40# bow go? Mine are slow, in archery terms, only go up to 75-85 MPH. Im going to but a cheap 45# bow for only $32.00 on some website. It's made of fiberglass, but oh well im gonna hunt deer with it.

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45#, eh? Well, the problem is that, at that price its probably a traditional bow. Nothing wrong with that it's just that to shoot 200-210 fps(minimum for deer) you need to pull around 60#. Mine is a compound so at 40# it does nearer 240 fps. It's a Bear Odyssey 2 the sets $300 buy the heavier -draw one I shouldn't have gotten the lighter one oh well. The heavier at 50# witha good bh setup should be like 260 fps.

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Oh, but traditional bows shoot slower than compounds, so my bows ok though. I don't believe an animal can dodge that speed of an arrow (90 FPS) at close range (15-20 feet) but any further than that they probally could. I think im safe as long as it doesn't go below 80 FPS, a slingshot goes about the same speed as my bow. Thats all my bow can do but it's not a reallybad speedbut not good of a speed, right? 30# bows are suppost to go that fast most likely, and im not looking into deer hunting because I like the fun of small game hunting. Not only that, small game hunting is easier to me and taste great:D, and is much easier to deal with. I thought when you said your draw weight was 40# I thought you meant on a traditional bow like mine. A 180 FPS arrow is only traveling at 122 MPH, so my bow is kind of close to that in a way. This bow im talking about (the 180 FPS) is a longbow with a 60# draw wieght.

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Never hunted with a sling shot, Im open to it Ill try anything once

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I've never heard of a grackle before; but just yesterday what I saw beleived to be a crow landed in a tree right outside my window and I noticed agreen shine on it's neck area. How do you tellgrackles and crows apart from a distance; where you can't see the shine?

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Crows are bigger. Also, grackles tend to be city birds, while you can find crows a thousand miles from civilization.