Here in Wyoming you can shoot pidgeons among other things all that you want and with whatever you want. My cousing and I went out last year to help a farmer shoot some of his pigeons since they were eating all of his cattles' feedl. We found a whole bunch of them feeding in a huge mob.... so we snuck up to them and we both shot once at the same time with our 12 gauges. We killed something like 62 of them.... that we could find! We sure made that farmer happy.