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Treb, I think buy a brick of them and smash it over their head. Should be consistantly effective.
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I have shot many birds with my .410. However I load my own shells with a combination of rock salt, whole peppercorns, and a little bit of garlic salt so they are seasoned when they hit the ground. The garlic makes it easier for the dogs to find them too.
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I had a friend in high school knock down a pheasant by throwing a rock at it. I guess at close range nearly anything will work. Steve
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All these wonderful tales of shooting pheasant with small bored weapons. I really cannot match the BB gun story. However,when in Korea, I did shoot one from a jeep with my 45. In this case the hardest part was to figure the forward allowance as I was moving and the bird was not. The other targets we had were easier but they shot back. Regards John Mc
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That's the second time I've heard someone suggest using a 22 on game birds and I'm trying to figure out how would you use it?? Ground swat them with a 22 or shoot them in the air with a 22? I'm not that good to shoot them out of the air with a 22 and wouldn't a 410 be better in that situation? And for ground swatting birds, I will never ground swat a game bird, my Dad taught me better than that. There's a guy on the 16ga.com com board who claims to have killed many grouse in his youth with a bow and homemade arrows. I don't think he's even an Indian. If he can do that, you oughta be able to kill one with a .22?!
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein
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I think he was kidding........
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Here in Maine, the saying goes that grouse are what fancy sports wearing expensive clothes carrying expensive shotguns shoot (at and miss) in the air, while pa'tridge are what you ride the logging roads looking for, then stop, jump out and ground-sluice with high-brass 6s that single-shot Topper you stuff behind the seat of your pickup. Or the ones you cap while clucking and scratching like chickens (through the head, please) with your deer rifle while waiting for the non-existent deer to show up. Or the .22 when you were out looking for squirrels or cans.
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My son and a friend, both about nine years old, went on an excursion when the adults were shooting skeet. They came upon a gobler a bit confused in some multiflora rose, stalked him, put him in a bear hug, and brought him back to the skeet field. And we adults spend so much time and effort to kill a big bird, when on a Sunday afternoon, a couple of kids with five minutes to waste can come up with the same result.
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That Byron Ferguson guy ain't kiddin. He was shooting quarters and lifesaver mints tossed in the air with a longbow and wood arries.
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Ed,
Only if you also quote me on the Miroku that conspicuously didn't show the chunks of wood missing from the grip in all your photos. The one you refused return on indicating I was fabricating the issue and offering to have your master gunsmith fix.
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