Absolutely, just so long as you do not plan on eating them!
As a boy growing up in England, I was invited to an English formal pheasant shoot with my Dad, a big deal, a shoot like that. Instead of grabbing my usual flat of Eley Impax 1oz No 7 shot, I grabbed, in my haste, boxes of WW AA Skeet 1 1/8 No 9s.
Well, I was shooting well for me that day, but each solid hit was accompanied with a vast cloud of feathers. At the end of the day as the game was sorted to distribute to the guns, the Head Gamekeeper told my Dad that all the birds shot with the Skeet shells were going home with us as they were riddled with tiny pellets. So consider shot size for edible game birds, I still have some N0 10 shot a friend brought back from Italy, he said the local use them for migratory songbird shooting, they still do, and use trees on pivots coated with sticky bird-lime, pull them up let the exhausted migratory finches, etc, perch, get stuck, lower the tree, pull them off and pickle them in jars and sell them. Yes they still do it's disgusting.
Mike
