Several years ago, on a bobwhite hunt, my shooting student Joe Wood shot a quail and my first impression was that he had somehow put two wads into his reload. But almost immediately I realized he had shot the head off of that bob. It was a close shot, maybe fifteen yards. My best guess was and is that he had hit the head with the wad. But that seems an unlikely explanation for your dove since he was shot at thirty yards. For what its worth.



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