I was cleaning up spurs from this season to add to the collection and have another one for the miscellanious bowl of what I call "conversation pieces" as it's full of different things I have come across over the years in the woods.
When I cleaned the first one years ago I thought "Now isn't that rare" and thought I'll never see that again. Here we are 20+ years later and.....
The Eastern killed in MO had a large BB or #2 shot in it's leg and you can see by the picture it was clearly broken and healed back over (He was also one weary old gobbler).
One of the spurs I cleaned up today was from a Merriams from Northwest Nebraska and I know it was my slingshot kill as it had 1.25" spurs and were the best of the Merriams I killed.
How odd is it that 20+ years later I kill another bird with a large BB embedded in it's leg bone right by the spur.
I would say there are some shots being taken a bit further than they should be from some guys using larger than normal sized shot as well.
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Eastern
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Merriams
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Good stuff
Kinda like lightning striking the same place twice.
Good post , I've shot a nice gobbler with a #4 in the leg , and pintail drake with a BB hole blown through the bill and healed back up
A place I used to duck hunt would have a whole flock of bluebills stuck (flightless) on a permeter canal , pellets broke the wings and all they can do is swim and dive - , I would go in and sneak up and put em' down
very interesting find.
I took a guy out earlier this year. I was unaware he had never turkey hunted before. He showed up with with an IC choke and 3.5 inch waterfowl loads in BB.
'That's what I use for geese and turkeys are bigger than geese' was his thought.
He used a spare gun and shells I had in the truck...
That's neat.
That is cool, thanks for sharing!
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
Never seen this before, thanks for sharing
Seen old pellets in the legs several times, but not that perfectly placed. I see more wing injuries than anything.
Thats right, I prefer head/neck shots with smaller shot. Good post.