Originally Posted by Seaark18

Agreed! They can be a pretty tough bird! I've shot quite a few of them in Canada. We typically use 3.5" BB @1550 fps, and even that at times doesn't pack as much punch as I'd like. I'm going to have some BBB along next time. I've cleaned them and found steel BB's and Hevi-Shot #4 in their feathers and breast meat that didn't penetrate to the vitals. Obviously that was from shots that were out there a bit, and if they're in close they die just fine. However, we don't tend to go through that many shells on cranes, and Hevi #2 has turned out to be the perfect crane medicine- for shots at any reasonable range- in our experience.