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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firecrest5" data-source="post: 1776105" data-attributes="member: 45366">Hi AdamThe pellets are actually fine, I only head shot rabbits so they must be fairly accurate if I can hit the target!!It simply isn't true to say that falconers birds are fed mainly shot game, as I said earlier most falconers won't feed their birds game caught on shooting estates by their bird, never mind any handed to them by shooters etc. The only time my hawk is fed anything other than what it has caught is during the moult when she either gets fed head-shot rabbit (shot by me) or captive- bred quail or rat.Again, my practical experience of preparing shot pheasants Id been given from an estate showed shot in practically every bird so I would disagree that shot mostly goes right through the gamebird, just what I have observed.</blockquote>