Tough old bird!
Took these 2 roosters over Willie on Friday. She did a great job and even retrieved the birds, which she had not been doing. Shot them with the little 30" hammer 20. Both birds flew hard.
When cleaning the birds I made a strange discovery. When I pulled the skin/ feathers off the second bird it looked like this. At first I thought it was imbedded wood/tree branch, but when I pulled them out it was discolored, imbedded large bone fragments. The breast bone keel had apparently been shattered at some point. Dont know how it was even able to fly. They were imbedded in the breast and easily pulled out. Needless to say , I decided not to eat this bird. It seemed healthy & flew well. A testament to the hardiness of these birds. Pics to follow.
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"How kind it is that most of us will never know when we have fired our last shot"--Nash Buckingham
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