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Originally posted by DapperDan View PostI hunted them with 3 1/2” 00 buck shot and had trouble bringing them down. My suggestion is 3 1/2” turkey mags and head shoot them. They are very tough to bring down
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Originally posted by ultralite09 View PostMight wanna let the birds come in or take some shooting lessons. We smoke them all the time with what we shoot ducks and geese with. 3" #4 will take them down all day
Group of 7 guys and we all had trouble taking them down at 25 yards. Had two fly over me and two guys and we dumped 9 shells into them. Knocked one down and watched the other fly off with his neck turned crooked and a leg literally dangling off. Some of the cranes we were picking up were 600 yards away when they fell. Not exaggerating at all. I’ll shoot head shots at them and will never aim at the chest cavity again. That breast plate is thick. Lol
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00 buck could have been a lot of the problem. Like I said I don't know nothin about killing cranes but I do know there ain't very many pellets in 00 buck. We can't use it in Oklahoma but I've used it and seen it used on coyotes in States where I could. I'd rather have BB or #4 buck. There's a lot more pellets in those shells. With 00 you're pretty much just hoping one or two of those big suckers hits something important. I hate to be like this but I'll go so far as to say it pretty much sucks.
And that's on stuff bigger than a crane so I'd imagine it'd be just as hard to get a good hit on one of those skinny suckers.
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Originally posted by okrattler View Post00 buck could have been a lot of the problem. Like I said I don't know nothin about killing cranes but I do know there ain't very many pellets in 00 buck. We can't use it in Oklahoma but I've used it and seen it used on coyotes in States where I could. I'd rather have BB or #4 buck. There's a lot more pellets in those shells. With 00 you're pretty much just hoping one or two of those big suckers hits something important. I hate to be like this but I'll go so far as to say it pretty much sucks.
And that's on stuff bigger than a crane so I'd imagine it'd be just as hard to get a good hit on one of those skinny suckers.
Was using number 4 buck as well out of a pattern master. Those birds took every shot like a champ. Lol. When you hit them and they make it 600 yards before falling, that’s saying something. Especially with 7 guns blazing at them.
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Originally posted by DapperDan View PostWas using number 4 buck as well out of a pattern master. Those birds took every shot like a champ. Lol. When you hit them and they make it 600 yards before falling, that’s saying something. Especially with 7 guns blazing at them.
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If they are falling 600 yards away they are way too high. They are big birds, and look way closer than they really are. Decoying birds are what yall needed. Not buck shot.
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Originally posted by spliffnwesson View PostIf they are falling 600 yards away they are way too high. They are big birds, and look way closer than they really are. Decoding birds are what yall needed. Not buck shot.
These birds were decoyed and 25 yards. We hit them and within seconds and a few flaps of those gigantic wings they climb pretty quick. Then they lock out their wings and catch the Lubbock wind and glide until they die and fall. I’d tell myself it was BS but man it’s true. We were all amazed watching them go across a milo field and fall to the ground just as they were almost too far to see.
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I do a lot of pass shooting for cranes. I've found over the years they're much easier to drop as they've just passed overhead and are moving away. Pellets slip between the feathers not bounce off. I've killed several with my little 28, but they were all birds coming into decoys and head shots.
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