[dirtboy]

You obviously know very little about hunting and the ammo used for it.

I was dove hunting with a .410 when I was ten years old.

Same size shot as was involved here.

And if I had hit someone squarely enough with the shot to penetrate skin and send them to the hospital, I doubt my dad would have called it anything other than shooting them.

[hispanarepublicana]

While I've heard of plenty of people getting peppered with birdshot (albeit some needing to go the ER to prevent infection, etc.), no one who I know that's been peppered has ever needed surgery or had internal organs penetrated.