Hey Guys, just got into Airguns I was watching a show on Pursuit Channel called American Air gunner and scenes then I have been hooked on air guns and what they can do now days. I have always liked frog gigging so I thought one night I would take my air pistol and rifle and give it a shot. Just wondering if anyone else has done this? It is good practice and a ton of fun (plus good eating)
Air guns to kill frogs
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toivo
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I have never done it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Let us know how it goes.
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Frog legs are nasty
Mizar
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Yep, I used to do "frog hunting" with some friends years ago - it's quite fun (and a tasty meal)! Any air rifle will do as long as you can take a precise shot with it - aim at the head, because a body shot will often make it sink and you cannot retrieve it.
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Here is Missouri we can use several methods. If you use an air gun or any type of firearm, you need a hunting permit. If you use a gig or fishing pole then you need a fishing license. Though most people buy the combination hunting and fishing license since it is cheaper than buying separate licenses.
Choctaw
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Well, you have to cook them first.
As a kid we hunted frogs all the time. I just used my Benjamin .177 and cleaned up on them.
oldschool45
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My first thought here was the Bufo/Cane Toads invasive in Florida. Slow & hard to miss flat shovel would work better than an airgun which I've used.
It has been a long time since I have had any, but remember that they were rather tasty, somewhat like chicken but a little sweeter. Wish I had some.
troy fairweather
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Kinda like chicken cooked is oil fish was fried in, love me some frog legs there hard to find up here anymore. One buffet used to have them.
if you want to amuse yourself, bring a light wieght fishing rod, and a few pieces of very red cloth. not sure why or remember the details, but I recall doing this as a teen on a friends property, and as soon as the red piece of cloth on a hook hit the water, every frog in the pond would go for it. many of them you can also just walk up close to and net them with a bit of skill.
doubleh
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I haven't tried it as all I have are hop toads and they eat bugs. I'm with JCooper fan that frog legs are nasty. I tried them. ONE time.
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Yeah my stomach is turning just reading this.
I can't wait for frog season to open up this summer. I might even try using my Crosman 1377 pistol this year. I haven't hunted with a 1377 since I was a kid.
And the frog legs will get breaded with Andy's fish breading and dropped into the fryer right along with any fish I have.
And the frog legs will get breaded with Andy's fish breading and dropped into the fryer right along with any fish I have.
.308 Norma
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Yep. On our first date (almost 53 years ago) my wife (my girlfriend at that time) talked me into ordering frog legs for dinner in the fancy restaurant I'd taken her to. "They're sort of like chicken," she said.
Yes sir, they were "sort of like chicken." They were "sort of like" tough, stringy, fish-flavored rooster chicken that had been in the freezer far too long!
And I hate fish! Always have. Yeah, yeah I know - Omega-3 and all that. I can get all of the Omega-3 I need in the form of tasteless, odorless, easy to swallow capsules, thank you very much.
I married her anyway. She's just never suggested I try frog legs again.
Edited to answer the OP's question: No, I've never tried shooting frogs with an air rifle. For that matter, I've never gone "frog gigging" either. But I suspect my Sheridan "Blue Streak" pellet rifle with about 8 pumps would kill any frog that ever walked or hopped.
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Growing up I wore out a string of pump-up pellet guns shooting cane toads. On our farm, they would burrow into the banks making it really difficult to harvest the prawns. 3 or 4 pumps would usually be enough at 10ft or so, sometimes it took a few more, or a better-placed shot......but you got pretty decent at it after a couple nights.
Ive never tried to shoot frogs to eat, I do shoot Coquis at night sometimes still. We used to use red cloth on a barbless hook to catch them on one farm my folks managed, and that worked pretty well....never did eat one.
......actually now that I thought about it, there was one big toad that got a pass after being shot multiple different times, he lived under the deck and ate the dog food.
Ive never tried to shoot frogs to eat, I do shoot Coquis at night sometimes still. We used to use red cloth on a barbless hook to catch them on one farm my folks managed, and that worked pretty well....never did eat one.
......actually now that I thought about it, there was one big toad that got a pass after being shot multiple different times, he lived under the deck and ate the dog food.
Phaedrus/69
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When I was a kid back in the 70s my brother and I would go frog hunting in the summer. We had a scoop-out, a small pond dug many years ago with a front end loader. Not spring fed but the spring rain would usually fill it up. Anything more than a few inches deep would be full of frogs pretty quickly. My brother had a powerful Crossman pellet gun and I had a Daisy, kind of wimpy but enough for frogs. Mom would cook up the legs if we shot enough to be worthwhile. Good times! FWIW, nowadays if you see frog logs in a restaurant they're generally from China. Hard pass for me!
That is why I will only eat frog legs that I get myself. I am also pretty peculiar about fish too. I prefer to eat fish that I have caught.
doubleh
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A perfect description.
doubleh
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Known as a stock tank down here and usually dug at the bottom of a playa lake to catch runoff rainfall. Playa dries up and you still have water or not much rain and you still catch some for the cows. We had one on the farm I grew up on as we fed out some stock. It would fill up with little green frogs over night. It was dug with a horse drawn fresno probably before I was born. Get a good rain and the next morning you had frog music. Then came the turtles and I would sit on the bank side and pop the turtles with a little Iver Johnson 22 pistol in the late afternoon.
More like tasty.
Man you gotta have a long range frog sniping contest with airguns. I think that'd be just awesome. Scoped 1377 would be just great for that application. I've been thinking about getting one organized in the Philippines every time we go out but hasn't happened yet.
