Jason Galvin rescues an eagle
Clamsgotlegs sends us the story of Jason Galvin, an Afghanistan veteran who discovered an eagle who was wrapped up in a rope and hanging from a tree.
Galvin was on a bait run in his pickup, when he spotted the bird above a gravel road about a mile from his family’s cabin, upside down and struggling. By then the eagle had already been hanging more than two days, as neighbors called the Minnesota DNR and the Rush City police and fire departments, only to be told there was nothing the agencies could do.
Galvin’s wife Jackie began making calls too, with similar results. “They just couldn’t get up there high enough and they just unfortunately deemed this was going to be a loss.”
“Right then I thought, ‘Man, that just doesn’t look good.'” Jason Galvin said.
As he assessed the situation Galvin joked that he might have to shoot the eagle down. His wife responded in a more serious tone. “Yup, that’s what you’re going to do.”
It took him 150 .22 rounds from his Ruger 10/22, but he shot through the entanglements to free the bird. The eagle is recoverin at the doc’s office and it will be released back into the wild.
I couldn’t help but wonder through the story where he bought 150 of .22 ammo. It’s been pretty scarce for the last few years. But, good shootin’, Jason. It’s a good thing that he had witnesses, or I wouldn’t have believed the story.
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Good story!
I hope this story is a metaphor for our country and someone is going to “shoot” us down to “save”us.
I buy .22 ammo at Cabela’s. 350 reds for $32.00
Stupid autocorrect! Rds not reds.
I loaded up on ammo prior to the 2008 election. A buddy owns a gun store locally and he told me there would be a bigtime shortage. For a time even he couldn’t get some ammo: 22, 380 and 9mm was almost impossible to get for a while. Anyhow, I loaded up BIG time. So much so I could not relocate to Guam for fear of tipping it over.
I used to have ammo, but got rid of it when all of my guns were “stolen” ?
Bravo Zulu, Veteran.
I walked into one of the Major Sporting Goods stores the other day, and when they spotted me as a first time customer, I was offered a “Manager’s Special, One time only, 50% off on all the Ammo that I wanted. I got 325 rounds of .22 for $12.50 and 200 rounds of Fiocchi .223 for $35.00; and the store got a new customer.
That brings my .22 supply back up to just over 3,500 rounds. Shooting every day, I need all the deals that I can get.
But guns are made to kill people!
On the other hand, if we save one Eagle, isn’t it worth it?
Good one!! I give it a FIVE COCONUT rating.
May God Bless Jason and his family….maybe this is truly a sign….on the 4th of July weekend no less!! Too bad he didn’t have a 30.30 or a 30-06 wouldn’t have taken so many rounds….but he “gotter dun”!!
Good deed and a good story. BZ!
I’d have probably eaten the bird though…mmmmmm
YA THINK it would be as tasty as a Spotted Owl? You’d have to ask Al Gore Jr. if they are.
Perhaps…but as any Camp Lejeune RSO can tell you, nothing is as satisfying as eating a pile of those red cockaded woodpeckers, sautéed in hippie tears.
DITTO with Fort Benning GA.
Fukkers sure get around for being so damn rare.
The Eagle population has been making a come back
We know that. We’re talking about the Red Cockaded (Cockheaded) Woodpecker.
Difference between a spotted owl and an eagle? More dark meat on a spotted owl.
Eagle: The other white meat.
You mean Owl Gore? the pasty faced con man?
Well played, Mr, Galvin. Well played indeed.
Well done Mr. Gavin and thank you sir.
Where there is a will, there’s a way. And the fire dept hasn’t gone up trees to save things since at least the late 70’s — I know that because a frantic, teenaged Pinto Nag called them to come save her cat, which had dashed up a huge pine tree and was crying pitifully some 50 feet in the air. They told me they didn’t perform cat rescues anymore and not to worry — kitty would come down when he got bored. A neighborhood boy finally went after the cat.
Unlike Hillary Clinton this eagle really was “under” sniper fire.
When they told the wicked bitch of the east, she said, “after two days, at this point, what difference does it make”,, same thing she said at Benghazi!!
Great job Jason … and to Wildlife Officer on scene who gave the “do what you have to do order”.
In a related story, California officials are now looking into possibly charging an out of state resident with violations of their new ammo laws … 150 rounds, that is SO MUCH AMMO!
Give it a few weeks and the US Fish & Wildlife Service will figure out a way to charge him with something. Probably deliberate lead exposure in the vicinity of a protected species.
Making him a felon in possession of a firearm.
I’m impressed with his accuracy. 150 shots and none hit the bird. That’s damn amazing
Stacy: My thoughts exactly. Probably make him find all 150 rounds and dispose of them properly as they represent an environmental hazard. If this wasn’t such a national feelgood story, some mindless bureaucrat would have charged him with something. Maybe that ‘something’ would have been being a decent human trying to do a good deed.
BZ Mr. Galvin!
Fast forward 6 months. The bird recovered and was released. It is living a predator bird’s life and one morning spots a squirrel in the road. It swoops down to snatch the critter and, as it nears the target, a van full of old folks heading to the bingo parlor approaches the targeted squirrel. Talons extended, the eagle dives in front of the van, whose driver swerves sharply and rolls the vehicle. The carnage is horrifying. As emergency personnel arrive, the predator bird sits in a nearby field devouring his fresh kill. THE END.
Some old folks just need a little help to get to their destination… jk
Nice one. It is an apt response, consistent with my unintended consequences disaster story.
Uh, Air Cav, we gotta talk. I’ll save a seat for you at my next visit to the shrink’s office. Bwhaaaaa
I like your story. Laid out very nicely.
What sort of diabolical, twisted sociopath would remake a happy tale into a horror story? That’s sick, sick I say. I was going to go with the explanation for the hanging eagle that he had been strung up by the eagle community for crimes against nature but that seemed a tad far fetched.
Very nice save for this Eaglet. I have been watching the live cams that are on some Eagle nests around the U.S.. It is very cool to watch them from the time they are laid to the time they fledge the nest.
This should also be considered a Sunday morning feel good story!
Maybe its just me but 150 rounds at 75ft to sever a rope is pretty piss poor shooting with a rifle. I could do better and have with a Ruger Single Six
Windy day?
Firing upwards?
Excited bird flopping around at the end of the rope?
Shooter knowing that if he hit that bird, he coudld go to prison? That he might get cranked on by .Gov even if he succeeds?
You do realize how far 75ft is, right? It doesnt say he was delibertly shooting down branches. Most likely they were by accident.
He was shooting the main branch. It was thick. It’s in the video.
Pretty sure after the first round, he wasn’t shooting at a stationary target any more.
Watch the video. He was shooting at the big ass branch not the rope that was tangled with the eagle.
It wasn’t piss poor shooting. It was windy, it was distance and it was careful dissection of the branch with small rounds.
The severed branch is in the video.
It was 75ft. Piss poor in anybodies book. He also shot into the air 150 times.
Sooo proud of you Jason! Your service! Saving the eagle when no one else could and on the 4th of July yet!
Proud that you are from Minnesota. Proud to share my surname with you.
Mabel Galvin