OH, BTW, I harvested that bird with a 12GA Browning Gold 3 1/2 shooting Win Long Beard XRs in #4 shot through an old TruGlo by Bansner's TG156 choke. I usually use the same load in #5 shot but I haven't been able to find any of those for almost a year now. Those #4s are brutal though. Besides a few bb's in the head and neck one of them also snapped the right side wing bone completely off at the body from about 35 yards.

What really sucked though was that the bird still managed to sort of glide down a steep ridge and land right in the entrance to an old underground coal mine on my property. The entrance caved in probably well over a hundred years ago but there is still water seeping through and that's what the bird landed in. I spotted it laying there with binos from near the top but it took me at least five minutes to slide down the hillside and recover it.

When I first spotted the flock they were on a bench near the top of the ridge scratching under some wild grape vines and cherry trees. There were also four or five deer mixed in with them. I had placed a ground blind out on the point of the ridge only a couple of days earlier and I did that because I had seen a few grapes still hanging on. By the time I checked to make sure all of the birds had left the area and then crawled into the blind they were already calling trying to regroup. It only took a couple of minutes to call two birds into shotgun range.

When I opened up the bird's craw it was full of grapes.