yeah most of the time when you shoot thm they are not dead, when they hit the ground they die or if over water you kill em when your dog brings em back

I once fired a 4 bore muzzle loading black powder fowling piece and hit a clay pigeon with it :-)
The BANG and the smoke - you couldn't wipe the smile off my face for a week - or the bruise off my shoulder lol

Canadian geese used to be classed as vermin in england - which meant you could hunt them with whatever method, requiring just the landowners permission. But you really have to cook them properly or they are almost worthless to eat.
I believe now that our native british white geese are almost non-existent, that canadian geese are now no longer classed as vermin. You see huge flocks of the damn things everywhere - I'm sure most of them have british accents now :-)

Suprisingly, shot killed game birds often display little or no obvious damage - speaking as someone who's eaten entire flocks of game birds over the years (my dad shoots and so do a few of our friends) you occasionally get a a piece of shot in pheasant but almost never in pigeon or smaller birds. Partridge, woodcock, etc.
The birds breast feathers provide quite remarkable protection against shot, so it's quite often a head shot that kills them. Pheasant are often shot much lower than other birds so you get a lot more breast penetration of the shot on them.
Personally I don't believe in killing something for sport - but I'm quite happy to eat something someone else has shot. It's not actually hypocritical, I just believe everyone has the right to live their own life how they choose :-)

I hate muzzle loaders.  They are inferior technology and a pain in the you-know-where to hunt with.

About as much fun as throwing rocks by hand.

At least the sling can fire more rapidly.

I still like my lever-gun 

didn't know there were any native american tribes that practiced cannabalism :-)

Now what you should have done was stake them out for the vultures :-)

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