Round Two with the Ferals

        We headed back to the dairy farm for pigeons, but this time, it was much tougher. We received almost no shots, and even though I was using high brass #6s, I had puffs of feathers floating around with no bird to show for it! I carried my Crosman 1077cc pistol for cleaning up cripples that we normally have to chase after and catch, it worked very well. My uncle also came and was shocked by the toughness of these birds! My dad even watched me take 3 shots around 20 yards on a bird, and he said feathers came out on every shot, however, the bird still sailed 80 yards and had to be finished off with the pellet pistol! I also watched my little brother Ewing take 2 shots with a 12 gauge, shooting 1.25oz 2&2/4" #6 shells @1330fps, hitting the bird both shots, and the bird continued flying. And there is no way that our chokes are too open, because we used modified chokes! We ended up with 15 birds in 2 hours, not so great considering over 4 boxes of shells were fired! If anyone has suggestions on what I need to do about my shot size/choke etc, please tell me! Thanks for reading! And just as a heads up, I probably won't be posting much, since hunting season is out, but I will post about pigeons, groundhogs, and the occasional bullfrog hunt we take during the summer. OH, AND SPRING TURKEYS!