there was a contagious disease about, killng hogs. It's spread by starling scat. So whenever he had a clear shot at a gaggle of birds on the ground, he'd fire a blast of #8 birdshot (I think it was) into them. Once he did so (on an inch of snow) at abot 60 yds, killing and wounding 14 of them with one shot. The snow showed that the pattern was SEVERAL yds wide. I ran down and shot the cripples with my .22 pistol. Pellets bouncing along the ground (or on water) really have a 'fan-like" effect!
He was guessing, cut him some slack
there was a contagious disease about, killng hogs. It's spread by starling scat. So whenever he had a clear shot at a gaggle of birds on the ground, he'd fire a blast of #8 birdshot (I think it was) into them. Once he did so (on an inch of snow) at abot 60 yds, killing and wounding 14 of them with one shot. The snow showed that the pattern was SEVERAL yds wide. I ran down and shot the cripples with my .22 pistol. Pellets bouncing along the ground (or on water) really have a 'fan-like" effect!
A group of geese is called a gaggle, a group of crows is a murder, a group of starlings is a murmuration, a group of hens is a brood, a group of quail is a bevy, and a group of swallows is a flight. Just a heads up.
I got a news flash for you, even at 100 yds, and # NINE shot, it will break balloons. How much power does a simple bb gun have at 30 ft, hmm? STEEL pellet like that weighs very little, and it's probably down to 200 fps by then, but it still kills birds. Just because you THINK that you 'know' something doesn't make you correct.
BS! #8 shot at 60 yards you MIGHT break skin but I would bet against it. #8 shot is .090 inches containing 400 plus pellets and at 40 yards is going about 650 fps meaning if a pellet had a direct hit on a chickadee at 60 yards it MIGHT have enough force to make it move off the branch it was resting on.
I had a DNR cop almost write me a ticket for "shooting without a backstop" once because he was convinced the #8 we were using to break clays with was going to kill the hypothetical forest ranger walking around in the tree line over 200 yds down range. I was honestly speechless when he made that argument. I hate to admit there's somebody out there more retarded than "thru" but this guy was.
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