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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
i figure as fast as them quail fly by the time you got that 14 lb 8 auge lifted up them birds would be outa shooting range...never have watched that video of midways will have to look into it... yep shooting them birds on the ground was a no no in my pappys hunting days...charlie
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Heres the video the water glass is at the 4:40 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI47bl2h0cU
Ive never seen or heard of shooting conveys on the ground either but he says it was for when you needed to kill 30 bird to feed a family of 9 . A 4 bore on small birds seems extreme even by my standards
. I used to use 2 1/4 loads of #4s in my 10 ga 3.5"s for squirrels at probably 60 yards or so . Never did much meat damage as theyd only have 2 or 3 hits in the head .
My neighbor who lived about half a mile down the road asked me the following day what the * I was shooting . When I told him he said it sounded like thunder haha .
We used to have a real problem with squirrels chewing holes in our flight pens on the quail farm . I seen him take his dads old browning sweet 16 and go and kill every one he came across he was fed up with them . I always loved seeing them purple hulls when I was a kid .
I wish I could find the picture of that reloading press that was on GI awhile back it was setup for 8 ga , had the resizer and all with it looked pretty good .