If need be how do you finish off your bird?

[finsfurfeathers]

Bit of an interesting discussion going on in an upland forum got me thinking.
One member posted a link to a tool to dispatch cripples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SlvYafJOFs
After watching the video I realized damm you do learn something every day.
Can't recall how long ago but recieved a knife as a gift. Its a Remington Branded knife marked with an R-2. Its a multiblade tool and I figured out the use for all but one.
Has a short heavy serated blade, Long slender blade, choke wrench for 12 and 20g and one last progection resembling a nail. For the life of me always thought was some sort of emergency awl. Now I know its a Finisher tool. May try it the next time I may have need for it but quite honestly more worried punching a hole in my hand and fumbling around my pocket to pull it out doesn't seem easier than a wack to the back of the head.

[dean.f]

Ducks, geese, birds and rabbits all grabbed by the neck and a good snap of the wrist in a rotating motion. Some call it the helicopter, it's very quick and effective. Just need to get the feel for it, I've ended up with a couple headless ducks.

I can't imagine fumbling around trying to unfold my knife since it's usually a bit frantic trying to grab onto an animal that's injured.

[greatwhite]

Yeah I just break their kneck

[finsfurfeathers]

Ducks, geese, birds and rabbits all grabbed by the neck and a good snap of the wrist in a rotating motion. Some call it the helicopter, it's very quick and effective. Just need to get the feel for it, I've ended up with a couple headless ducks.

I can't imagine fumbling around trying to unfold my knife since it's usually a bit frantic trying to grab onto an animal that's injured.

Ya the discussion started with a member describing dispatching in that method and was told it tramatized a young hunter so is looking for a different method. I'm a wack to the back of the head guy and in the very rare instance that doesn't work a pigsticker to the jugular.

[dean.f]

I don't think there is really any pleasant way to handle the job. I just try to be conservative with my ranges and minimize the need to dispatch them as much as possible.

[FishHog]

Wow, I never knew there was a tool for that.
I'm a grab by the head and swing around until the neck breaks kind of guy. Its quick, easy and no tools needed. Although I did get the crap beat out of my once by a goose that I thought was dead. I had bruises on both sides of my ribs for weeks after and it hurt to breath for a few days. My hunting buddy had a sore stomach after from laughing so hard at me.

[dean.f]

Wow, I never knew there was a tool for that.
I'm a grab by the head and swing around until the neck breaks kind of guy. Its quick, easy and no tools needed. Although I did get the crap beat out of my once by a goose that I thought was dead. I had bruises on both sides of my ribs for weeks after and it hurt to breath for a few days. My hunting buddy had a sore stomach after from laughing so hard at me.

Those geese can be one tough bird sometimes hahaha

[mosquito]

Break the neck, a knife and a flopping bird seems like a recipe for stitches to me.

[dilly]

I am skeptical that is a "finisher tool". It was my understanding it is for pushing out the trigger group pins in the field should your shotgun require emergency surgery.

Regarding finishing birds, I find the whole "twirl them around by the neck" is an uneccessary and inefficient method. It causes feathers to fly all over and encourages the dogs to jump at bite at the bird in my hand. I simply hold them firmly and pull their head until I feel their vertebrae in the neck pop. They usually flutter a bit and then into the vest they go. Woodcock are so dainty you can accidently pull the head off, so I just rap their head on my boot heel or a branch once or twice. Doesnt work with geese. I let the dogs take care of them. I have seen a device that looked like vice grips that was used to finish geese and large ducks. I think it was meant to give the skull a quick crushing pinch.

[finsfurfeathers]

I am skeptical that is a "finisher tool". It was my understanding it is for pushing out the trigger group pins in the field should your shotgun require emergency surgery. .

Could be as well, though I find it a bit too pointed and be concerned with scratching the gun. Keep a wooden dowel in the gun bag for such emergencies.