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To: chessplayer

This happened before limits were placed on hunting. Hunters would use put guns, very large bore shotguns, to shoot hundreds at a time.

9 posted on 08/31/2014 9:07:56 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)

To: Blood of Tyrants

This happened before limits were placed on hunting. Hunters would use put guns, very large bore shotguns, to shoot hundreds at a time.

True. Worse still, most of this happened on their breeding grounds or on overnight roosts. These birds were gregarious, too.

All said, a very bad combination of circumstances for this species at that time in America.

14 posted on 08/31/2014 9:20:14 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)

To: Blood of Tyrants

I think those were punt guns, from the square ended shallow draft water craft of the same name.

40 posted on 09/01/2014 4:38:05 AM PDT by skepsel

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