Originally Posted By: GLS
Brent, granddad's gun lives another season! Good going. Geo, John scored a nice one. Still going here. According to a biologist, we lost a lot of young birds due to the past two hurricanes. Folks who normally do well are having a time just hearing one. Two and half more weeks....Gil


In dressing the bird, I found a couple pieces of shot. No big deal but I was shooting Remington #6 copper plated, and the first piece I found was decidedly smaller and w/o copper.

The copper plate measures about 0.118" which is a bit large for #6 but maybe plated shot runs larger than unplated.

The unplated piece measures about 0.110". There were a few other wounds in the bird, at least two were feather inclusions in the breast that may have been pulled in there by shot, but no shot was found in them. They were partly healed.

In any event, it looks like someone tried but failed to kill him earlier this year, but he came in pretty strong and acting totally normal.

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BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan)

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