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Once, while shooting 16 yard trap with #8's; I shot a target & while hitting it soundly, a bird was flying off to the right some distance, probably 12 yards away from the target. The bird dropped stone dead. Only thing the squad could figure out was a pellet had bounced off the target.
Sometimes, odd things happen.
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Sometimes it just takes a well placed... wire fence  
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Sounds like this kind of thing isn't as rare as I thought, though not common. After considering all the comments, and rethinking the event many times, I am going with the theory that the shot cup stayed with the load, creating a slug effect. I have pretty much discounted the possibility that it was just a "reverse hole", as Don put it, or a hot spot in the pattern. The more I recall the appearance of the dove, the more clearly I remember the neck area being just .......... gone. Doves have some neck, and this one had very little left. This also takes away the possibility of it being done by two or three shot stuck together. It looked exactly like I would picture it if the entire shot load, still encased in the shot cup, struck the neck area directly.
Thanks for the comments, SRH
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Sounds like this kind of thing isn't as rare as I thought, though not common. After considering all the comments, and rethinking the event many times, I am going with the theory that the shot cup stayed with the load, creating a slug effect. I have pretty much discounted the possibility that it was just a "reverse hole", as Don put it, or a hot spot in the pattern. The more I recall the appearance of the dove, the more clearly I remember the neck area being just .......... gone. Doves have some neck, and this one had very little left. This also takes away the possibility of it being done by two or three shot stuck together. It looked exactly like I would picture it if the entire shot load, still encased in the shot cup, struck the neck area directly.
Thanks for the comments, SRH
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Someone had posted, some time ago, images from their quail hunt in which they captured one of the party centering a bobwhite in the pattern, making an impressive puff of feathers. A friend did that a year or two ago with a ruffed grouse. He was very quick and excited - opening day, IIRC - and centered the bird in his pattern at not-very-far.
Not much left to eat in either case.
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