Talk about destroying meat?
When I was a young and foolish teenager, my hunting buddy and I used to try to out shot each other if we happened to flush a rooster while walking together. Well a rooster started up and it was so close and I fired so fast, I massacred the poor bird. When I got to cleaning it at home, I extracted the green plastic wad from the mangled bird carcass. I was using Remington Express 1 1/4 #6 ammo at the time.
My dad scolded us kids for our bad hunting practice and being our family never wasted any game we shot, mom made pheasant soup from it. That still sticks in my mind to this very day.