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How?!
Wouldn't you need to hold the head in place and in turn not get shot in the hand? Chicken heads are small enough already. . .
It has never been a problem, I keep my hand far away, and DH puts the gun barrel IN the back of the head...I was butchering turkeys one time years ago, and had a small loop tied around the victim's upper neck, stretching his neck across the choppong block and DD holding the rope, I came down with the ax and she squinted and let go at the same time, and the bird backed up just in time to get half it's head cut off at an angle, so it had 1 eye, etc...and it just stood there looking at us,Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww it was awful!
The bird just walked away and began feeding...no blood...half it's brains showing...we had to do it all over again.
It seems to me,that when I was a kid (100 years ago), we had a stump with 2 nails in it. The nails where not pounded in all the way and they were close together. Stick the neck between the nails, head on one side, body on the other. This may not be accurate....but I know we did something like this, but like I said it feels like 100 years ago.