Inconsolable, babbling, choking back salty wet tears. And that is just Sgt. Snuggle Bunny, Ptarmigan maybe not so much.
PS I thought Crows were why God invented the .410, or maybe the .22, but a 12 ga?
Well, unless you're DUmmy DUmoTex, you can't often hit a flying crow with a .22, even with high-explosive bullets.
The pellets in a .410 ga. shotgun hit every bit as hard as a 12 ga., but there are far fewer of them, so effective
range is drastically reduced by the thin patterns.
When I hunted crows, I used 1 1/4 oz. of #7 1/2 pellets. A .410 load would typically be a half-ounce. At typical ranges,
there are lots of crow-sized gaps in the .410 shot pattern.