You reminded me about something.

Some old gents in a city I know raise show pigeons. The show pigeons thay raise are Giant Runts.
Giant Runts are a lot like the regular rock pigeons that plague every city, they are just bigger and meatier.

Because you can not raise livestock for meat in that city, but you can raise show birds, they have a club called the Ontario Giant Runt Club.
They are real certified pigeon fanciers, it is true.
It is all quite official and they have shows and everything, at which they judge the quality of the birds and present awards for the best birds shown.
After the show they go home and start fattening up more birds for the next show.



This is an American Giant Runt

Pigeons are decent eating.

tastes just like chicken...;^)

JohnE

Squab for us West Texaners. Grandad made me a slingshot out of inner tube rubber, some leather, and a plywood cutout. He posted me in the big feed barn with orders to try and bring down any squab I coudl reach with the thing. Them big sheet metal pole barns were a bit too tall for me to reach the top rafters with the rocks I had, but I sure had a lot of fun trying. Learned an important lesson about trajectory and shooting from a pure vertical hold in that barn. Got a goosegg for my trouble.

I learned about trajectory, Kentucky windage, etc by shooting buttons leaning against the wall in the next room in my mom and dad's basement with a Rough Rider BB gun. You could follow those BB's from the time they left the barrel until they hit the target. It's a dang miracle I didn't put my eye out. I probably shot 20,000 or more BB's out of that gun over the course of several years.

I once saw a .22 pellet out of a Benjamin pump go across a garage, contact a piece of wood that I thought was soft pine but turned out to be hard pressed wood, then come back, right into my left eye. Lucky for me, it didn't penetrate, just hurt like hell, and caused a cataract that I had to have removed 40 years later ...

Sounds like my first experience with Rat Shot and a .45LC S&W M25. Rat shot will indeed bounce back from an old weathered 4x8 sheet of 3/4" plywood. I was popping lead pimples for three days. Thank God for shooting glasses.

We were not allowed BB guns as kids.
When we were old enough to learn to shoot we were handed a .22 Cooey.
Dad said all BB guns were good for was taking out headlamps and eyes.
We were not allowed pellet guns until years later.

Yup, been there, done that. Once I saw a .22 lead bullet ricochet off of a junked '52 Plymouth hood ornament and smack right back into someone's chest.

Good thing I was wearin' a thick coat.

To help get this thread back on track, I really like my snazzy old S&W K22 copy Taurus .22 revolver. Good old fashioned hi-polished blue finish, target adjustable wide trigger and sights, cocobolo target grips, and can be loaded up with any combination of .22 rimfire ammo of opportunity known to human-kind--short, long, CB cap, CB long, long rifle, snake shot, BB cap, sub-sonic, what have you. Two lb. trigger breaks like a glass swizzle stick.

I carry around a tee shirt to wear one day a year, a gift from my daughter. Ever seen the movie A Christmas Story? Well, my shirt has Ralphie, broken glasses and all, and says "You're Gonna Shoot Your Eye Out"...