My hunting is restricted to pheasants. I like to use a Browning A-5 12 gage with 2 3/4 shells.
A hunting buddy carries a single shot .410 with a single shell in the chamber and two shells in his pocket. He nearly always brings home three birds...
They will rarely fly, they will run out like chickens.
You can have the same sport but going to my buddy's barn yard paying him for some chickens and then shooting them, in their cages.
No sport, not worth my time.
When I feel like hunting in solitude, I take a 22 and a nice lunch go into the woods and sit around oak or nut trees and just wait for a clean shot.
I can still make a good squirrel and/or rabbit stew.