I was on a dove hunt in Illinois once where there was a minor outdoor writer also in attendance. He'd brought some kind of .410 and wasn't shy before the hunt bragging about how he was going to shoot a limit with his little gun. It wasn't a good year and the doves were fairly scarce. He ended up with about 6 birds. Then went around and borrowed birds from other hunters so he could take pictures for his article of the 15 bird limit he shot.

Nothing the government gives you is free.