11/29 rice field

[cmcnabb]

Originally Posted by Armand16

Have you ever shot lead?? I shot steel on a squirrel hunt and there was a huge difference. Night and day

Yea I've shot lead and it kills. But there is no reason birds can't be killed with steel. Maybe let them make another pass???

[jchief]

Originally Posted by cmcnabb

Yea I've shot lead and it kills. But there is no reason birds can't be killed with steel. Maybe let them make another pass???

UMMMM, birds were well within range.

[cmcnabb]

Originally Posted by jchief

UMMMM, birds were well within range.

Lmao at the UMMM. But that really is a cool pic of the hound bringing back that bird. I've seen them fly off after I shot them and feathers flew. I chalked it up to shooting them in the azz and I'm sure they flew off and died

[Feesherman]

Hate to say it but it's not the steel. It's the poor shooting. Get em closer or shoot em up front. 30 yards should be graveyard dead whether you are shooting steel or lead. They have done studies on the effects of steel shot by the way. They don't cripple no more than lead did. I am not going to dig up the study as I am sure ya'll can search it out. If I remember correctly lead actually crippled more. Lead has a much longer shot string than steel does. So steel has a denser pattern than lead does.

[jchief]

Originally Posted by cmcnabb

Yea I've shot lead and it kills. But there is no reason birds can't be killed with steel. Maybe let them make another pass???

Didn't say they could not be killed with steel. I don't like it and feel there are far more cripples with it than when we were shooting lead shot.

This is a hunting report, if you want to debate the steel/lead issue, start a thread on it.

Just for a frame of reference though, between the three of us in the blind, we probably had over 100 years of waterfowl hunting experience.