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Anyone interested in going owl hunting?
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:34 pm
Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:34 pm
The US Fish and Wildlife wants landowners and managers to shoot about 500,000 barred owls to help protect the the northern spotted owl. That might make a good looking mount in the game room.
Newsweek
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To save northern spotted owls from the barred owl onslaught, the FWS said in a draft environmental impact statement that they plan to initially cull around 20,000 of the owls in the first year, followed by 13,397 birds a year in the first decade, 16,303 a year in the second, and 17,390 birds each year in the third decade. This is due to start possibly as early as 2025. The plan details that landowners or land managers could apply for a permit to kill the owls, and that a large-bore shotgun would be the choice weapon, to be substituted for capture and euthanasia when people are close.
Newsweek
This post was edited on 12/7/23 at 6:43 pm
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Posted on 12/7/23 at 6:44 pm to highcotton2
Saw this today and it’s pretty messed up. This is nature doing its thing. Adapt or go extinct. Or in this case hybridize and possibly become a new species in the long term
Posted on 12/7/23 at 7:00 pm to Ron Cheramie
I once offered to shoot an owl I had in my best turkey spot for Johnny Jr. He was an old hand that lived his whole life on my granddad’s farm. He declined. Owls are nuffin but fevvers! This guy ate crows. He would know.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 6:41 am to highcotton2
This guy was just chilling a few weeks ago.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 8:59 am to highcotton2
Im always amazed at how many are killed at night swooping down in front of vehicles
Posted on 12/8/23 at 9:07 am to highcotton2
Hunters will kill any Owl they see not just the targeted ones. Book it. 
Posted on 12/8/23 at 9:45 am to wickowick
Yup I see tons of them dead on the road although I don’t know what kind of owls they are.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 9:51 am to highcotton2
Hell no. Why would I want to shoot an owl? They are awesome. Anything that eats mice is awesome.
Not only that, but owls will basically have a conversation with you in the woods. I love owls.
Not only that, but owls will basically have a conversation with you in the woods. I love owls.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 10:47 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:Dont they eat young squirrels too?
Anything that eats mice is awesome.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 10:59 am to Quatrepot
Oh yea big time. Owls will eat anything that can't eat them. They are are still awesome though.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 11:03 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
I saw a video yesterday where one unsuccessfully tried to take an adult bald eagle.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 2:49 pm to Soul Gleaux
I just can’t shoot an owl. Beautiful birds
Great Horned Owl is awesome.
Great Horned Owl is awesome.
Posted on 12/8/23 at 6:36 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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Owls will eat anything that can't eat them
Will an owl kill and eat a human?
Several years ago I was climbing up to a lock-on stand in a steep bottom. I reached the lock-on and had just stepped into it when something big hit me in the back of the head - it felt like I had been beaned at 40 yds with a football. Fortunately, I had one hand firmly around the trunk of the tree or I would have fallen and probably died. After I had properly strapped myself in, I took account of my condition and noticed that my orange beannie was missing from my head. I didn't really know what to think, but when it got light enough, I looked down at the base of my tree and saw my hat and a huge dead owl laying on the ground.
Thirty minutes later that damned owl almost knocked me out of the tree again when he jumped up and flew off with an incredible whoosh. It scared me so bad I nearly crapped myself.
I really believe he intended to kill and eat me.
This post was edited on 12/8/23 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 12/9/23 at 5:00 pm to highcotton2
That's in northwest. You'll get put under jail here
Posted on 12/9/23 at 11:29 pm to highcotton2
First you make a roux….
Posted on 12/10/23 at 9:29 am to highcotton2
Hearing a barred owl call out in the morning or evening is honestly one of my favorite sounds in the woods.
I absolutely love the animal.
Having said that, I would love to kill one big one and have it mounted. Would be an incredible mount. Maybe have a field mouse in its talons or something.
I absolutely love the animal.
Having said that, I would love to kill one big one and have it mounted. Would be an incredible mount. Maybe have a field mouse in its talons or something.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 10:08 am to highcotton2
I'd have a hard time getting fired up to go blast some owls. Highlight of any woods activity is seeing or hearing an owl. Always makes me pause and grin.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 10:11 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:feral cats are not awesome.
Anything that eats mice is awesome.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 11:59 am to Tigerinthewoods
quote:
I looked down at the base of my tree and saw my hat and a huge dead owl laying on the ground. Thirty minutes later that damned owl almost knocked me out of the tree again when he jumped up and flew off with an incredible whoosh.
Zombie owl that flies after death. Call Nat Geo.
Posted on 12/10/23 at 12:09 pm to Turnblad85
Yeah there’s no way I’m shooting a damn owl, sorry
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