Apparently, a video has been making the rounds of some guy fruitlessly firing a DShK at an F-16.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take!
He also just so happens to miss the other 100%, as well.
We did a lot of bird hunting in northern Ontario. It’s been years for me but I used to do a lot when I was young with my family.
Most of the easy hunting happens at ground level but every once in a while we resorted to using rifles to bring down Canada geese that flew high overhead. As crazy as it sounds, there were a few hunters among us that could use a .22 rifle and bring down a goose flying several hundred feet overhead. We seldom used this method because the problem was in trying to find a bird that fell from that height.
Also the whole missed shots falling down part
lol … a single 22 bullet would probably land miles away from us and we’d never notice … but the buck shot was more exciting for that. We’d have a flurry of shooting at birds overhead with 12 gauge and 20 gauge shotguns … then about five minutes later when the all the excitement was over, we’d hear it rain lead pellets all around us. On the snow and slush in the spring time, it made a sound like velcro peeling.
Why do you use buck shot for birds? Is bird shot not enough to take down Canada geese?
I was calling it ‘buck shot’ without knowing that there was a differentiation … all I ever saw up north was the ‘bird shot’ you mentioned, about 50-60 small pellets packed into a shell … honestly, I thought it was all known as ‘buck shot’
After just looking it up ‘buck shot’ is much larger pellets … and we never used those as you are right, they wouldn’t have worked too well no birds … and it would have destroyed everything if those pellets hit their mark at close enough range.
And chances are I suffered a bit of lead poisoning when I was younger. Up until about 40 years ago, it was mostly lead shot and often those little pellets embedded themselves in the flesh of the birds. People would try to fish them out but it was always inevitable, you’d end up biting into one. Mom always cautioned us against this as kids. And when you ate as much Canada goose as we did, inevitably you’d swallow these pellets either accidentally or unknowingly.
It’s not you guys that have to be worried about the round landing on your head. It’s some asshole a couple miles away that has to worry. Unless you’re hunting in the deep deep woods you really shouldn’t fire rifle rounds into anything missing a solid backstop. That includes firing into the air. I think you said you’re canadian though so you guys got more trees than people and should be relatively safe.
I’m imagining an especially plump one getting nailed mid-flight and ending up more splatter than hunter’s dinner if it hits a hard surface, lmao
It was a traditional way of tenderizing the meat … I’m kidding … lol
