Mike, a priest is just what you described and I use it to dispatch roosters not killed dead in the air. I hunt pheasants more than a hundred days a year and with quite a few folks, both friends from this and another board and with landowners. There is always a number of roosters retrieved by the dogs that are looking for a chance to spur me or anything else they could.

I use to carry a beautiful hardwood priest made for me by a friend in Texas. After I lost it crawling under a fence (I found it), I retired it so as not to loss it again.

Now I carry a lead weight "splat", a black jack that N.Y. detectives carried at one time and given to me by another friend.

bc