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Originally Posted by tallon30
Hunted the capital power site for the first time yesterday. Was pleasantly surprised on the amount of birds we saw. They also flushed well and werent real jumpy like I figured they would be. With all the good things being said it's time to talk about the bad. Saw LOTS of piles of feathers of wounded birds. Nearly every hull I saw on the ground was a trap load. Please if your hunting roosters do yourself your dog and the bird a favour and use a better hotter load. These things are tough and often on a less than ideal shot they hit the ground running. Do us all a favour and spend more than 5 bucks a box on ammo. Sorry for the rant.
PS. I also brought someones wounded birds home because my dog brought it to me still alive.
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I was hunting last week and one of the guns I was using was a 16 gauge underlever with 68 grains of black powder and 7/8 oz of Shot running about 1,050 FPS.
It kills birds well if you are on the head/ neck area
It’s not so much about the load or the gauge as one’s shooting ability and shooting within range .
I’ve Seen birds killed with 3” 410’s and missed with 12 gauge 3” heavy loads
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