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Them shore am some funny lookin' ducks you got there!
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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 378038" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>Yeah, 00 does have a way of obliterating anything under about 50 pounds but look on the bright side, the dove was already cleaned and probably mostly defeathered!! I once conducted a very scientific experiment to see how many 3" 12ga 00 shells it would take to chop down a 6" in diameter (at the base) oak tree. 3 shells from about 5' away worked exceedingly well! I get around shot load mishaps like that by always loading 00 in green hulls, duck loads in red and turkey in yellow. </p><p></p><p>#5 lead with a full choke works quite well with gobblers. Some people go for a center of mass shot but I prefer to go for a head/upper neck shot because it is far more humane. I have <em>never</em> had to shoot one twice in all my years of turkey hunting. One guy I went turkey hunting with shot one center of mass, knocked it over and the rascal got up and started running away! We caught up with it about 150 yards away. It fell when it bled out. I <em>hated</em> to see that bird suffer like that.</p><p></p><p>Although it won't happen this year because I am here, I have provided the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner for every year in the last 20, unless I was in the desert, which happened a couple of times. Natural turkeys are much leaner than farm raised turkeys and I prefer the taste. But since they <em>are</em> wild after all, you <em>absolutely</em> have to make sure you cook the bird to at least 165º degrees everywhere in case they have worms or parasites or most commonly, <em>Salmonella</em> or <em>E. coli</em>. And as mentioned earlier, you should never chomp down real hard just in case one of those rogue pellets went off on its own somewhere, which has been known to happen! My wife really busted my chops one Thanksgiving when she bit down on a piece of shot from the breast. She said "I thought you always shot them in the head!" I told her I did but once the pellets leave the barrel I no longer have any control over them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 378038, member: 12827"] Yeah, 00 does have a way of obliterating anything under about 50 pounds but look on the bright side, the dove was already cleaned and probably mostly defeathered!! I once conducted a very scientific experiment to see how many 3" 12ga 00 shells it would take to chop down a 6" in diameter (at the base) oak tree. 3 shells from about 5' away worked exceedingly well! I get around shot load mishaps like that by always loading 00 in green hulls, duck loads in red and turkey in yellow. #5 lead with a full choke works quite well with gobblers. Some people go for a center of mass shot but I prefer to go for a head/upper neck shot because it is far more humane. I have [I]never[/I] had to shoot one twice in all my years of turkey hunting. One guy I went turkey hunting with shot one center of mass, knocked it over and the rascal got up and started running away! We caught up with it about 150 yards away. It fell when it bled out. I [I]hated[/I] to see that bird suffer like that. Although it won't happen this year because I am here, I have provided the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner for every year in the last 20, unless I was in the desert, which happened a couple of times. Natural turkeys are much leaner than farm raised turkeys and I prefer the taste. But since they [I]are[/I] wild after all, you [I]absolutely[/I] have to make sure you cook the bird to at least 165º degrees everywhere in case they have worms or parasites or most commonly, [I]Salmonella[/I] or [I]E. coli[/I]. And as mentioned earlier, you should never chomp down real hard just in case one of those rogue pellets went off on its own somewhere, which has been known to happen! My wife really busted my chops one Thanksgiving when she bit down on a piece of shot from the breast. She said "I thought you always shot them in the head!" I told her I did but once the pellets leave the barrel I no longer have any control over them. [/QUOTE]
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