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you shoot birds and fowl -- which is what ducks are -- with a shotgun.
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How do I know? My Daddy taught me.
Same with other small game such as rabbits. In the winter in months with the letter r, we used to survive in part on rabbits, cottontails killed in the desert. Hell, we even ate jack rabbit.
The notion that working class people only hunt so that they can put trophy heads on their walls or just because they like to hear guns go bang-bang is a liberal urbanites illusion. People actually hunt to eat. Among people who understand these things, the notion that you would use a six-shooter is just ludicrous. I think Obama has watched too many western movies where the fast draw takes out a rattlesnake with one bullet.