LMFAO! The wadding inside of the guy (yea I know it's just ballistic jelly, simulated man anyway)... too funny. At first I was kinda surprised by the appearance of #4 shot in INF- I've seen #4 (steel) shot BOUNCE off a duck. Nope, no shit. The duck was flying low and slow, and Tony was up on an embankment shooting downward- you could see the few pellets that missed hit the water in a little circle around him, and the ones that hit him bounce off his back and into the air (they had slowed down alot after impact). From maybe 15 yards away, a pretty much perfect shot didn't even phase that damned duck. I bet your thinking some super-mallard with a 4 foot wingspan, right? Nope, just some little wimpy dumbass teal. It being a dumbass teal, it only took some hiding in the bushes, patience, and careful duck calling to get the silly bastard to land back down on the same tank after circling a few times. We jumped him again and got him anyway, but most of us now exclusively take #2 shot or bigger for duck.
BUT, this was steel shot after all, the ammo page says lead (which is, IIRC, illegal to use on migrating birds... methinks us hunters need to look into tungsten or something)... so I'm contented. I'm sure that lead would be *much* different, steel is so much ligher I can understand it perfoming pathetically in those smaller sizes. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
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Shot four puppet governors in a line,
Shook all tha world bankers, who think they can rhyme,
Shot the landlords, who knew it was mine,
Yes, its a war from the depth of time!
[This message was edited by DeadeyeDan[ToA] on Jul 31, 2000 at 00:28.]