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Dispatching wounded feathered game.

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One can wring the necks of larger, heavy birds as pheasant, but this would be hard to do on dove, quail and grouse maybe. Biting a dove's head off looks too gross so I think I would keep a small pair of serrated kitchen shears with locking blades in my hunting vest for that purpose. What do you think? I'm planning taking up dove hunting and have to be prepared for that possibilty. Beheading a small bird seems most civilized. I would twirl that rooster a couple times for good measure. Hanging head means broken neck. For a wounded dove, I would just hold the bird over the game bucket by the head and carefully sever the neck with the shears so as not to injure my hand. The dove body drops right in, slam dunk, two points!

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For long necked birds I just snap their neck for doves, partridge and smaller birds I twist their heads until the neck snaps. Used to have a lab that if the bird was still alive she would bite the head until it stopped moving before retrieving it. I truly miss that dog. Whenever I would miss a bird she had pointed she would look back over her shoulder with a look that said what the h*ll man!
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I'm just interested in knowing if anyone here actually goes full blown Ozzy and bites bird heads off🤢
I am not even sure what kind of drugs you would have to take to actually do that. I have butchered hundreds of chickens ducks and turkeys but have never even thought about biting their heads off.🤪
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I suppose it would take lots of alcohol, a bunch of sadistic friends, and a double dog dare. Lol!
More like a triple dog dare!
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I suppose it would take lots of alcohol, a bunch of sadistic friends, and a double dog dare. Lol!
And a bottle of mad dog 50-50.
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