SwampMafia Report post Posted November 21, 2014 Recently, I wanted to get some dove on the table so I took my .22 cal pellet gun hunting. This thing hits at 32 ft lbs and has killed coyotes! Anyways, I found a dove at 25 yards and put a pellet through him in a texas heart shot style. This thing took off like nothing happened but I knew I hit him from the THUD! I have never had a bird go more than 10 yards after being shot with this thing! It packs power! I watched him land and figured I give him a minute. I waited till I was confident he was dead and went over to him surprised when he flew yet another 50 yards! I looked another 30 minutes and gave up! Later, I decided to search again as I found it highly unethical not to. As I was going through the brush, I found him! Upon breasting him out, I was amazed at the destruction he endured!! The pellet had turned his intestines to mush, shattered his sternum and chest plate, cut a hole in the right ventricle of the heart, punctured a lung, and exited through the breast! I have no idea how or why he survived for that long but he will be remmembered as the INVINCIBLE dove! Plus he tasted good! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
az_shooter Report post Posted November 21, 2014 That's weird, one time I was sitting back from a windmill way out in the middle of the desert. This windmill was literally 5 miles from the nearest home and 15 miles from the nearest town. Anyways, I was sitting back about 50 or 60 yards from the windmill and there was this little concrete drinker it fed and this large dirt berm that was on the south side of it. Well, the dove would come in and land in the flats or on the drinker and I would try and head shoot them with a 22 single shot rifle. So one evening I was out there and I shot this dove that landed on the drinker and I thought I hit him in the head because he fell off behind the drinker and out of sight. Well, about 2 minutes later this same little dove came running around the side of the drinker so I let him have another shot. He went down and at the end of the evening I went to retrieve the birds I shot and when I picked him up, I saw that the first shot had hit him on the side of the face and actually took off the majority of the face and the bottom beak. The second shot hit him just above the breast and finished him for good but I just couldn't believe he survived the first shot. I felt pretty bad for the little guy and was wondering with all the damage that he had to his face with the first shot, maybe it only knocked him out and that's why it took him two minutes to come around the drinker. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZbowhntr Report post Posted November 21, 2014 The crazy thing is I have shot doves with a BB gun and killed them. I thought they were the sissiest birds I have ever seen. Never thought they could take a .22 round and live. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnnie blaze Report post Posted November 21, 2014 Boy you musta took a long time field dressing with surgical precision. No worries.... I tend to always examine the craw to see what was for dinner. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
