Do you consider it ethical to shoot divers on the water?
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Guess it all depends on how hungry you are! LOL!
As a knot headed kid, I did lot's of jump shooting on a small creek.
I don't know all the logistics behind it, but it's difficult to kill a duck sitting on the water. I tried. Killed a few. But it became apparent it was easier to "kill" them on the wing.
I understand the ethics, morals and sportsmanship of only shooting game birds (except turkeys!) on the wing, I don't know anybody that hasn't at some time or another.
Before some of you go to screaming, "HELL NO!", did you ever dispatch a cripple on the water?
...and no, I'm NOT advocating shooting sitting ducks! Just an observation!
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Here's another "dilemma".
Your last round hits a mallard squarely and hits the water with enough steam to remain just out of reach. You don't have a dog. You find one round buried in a forgotten corner of your vest. As you start to stuff it into the chamber, tou realize it's a "lead" dove/quail load.
Do you dispatch the cripple with lead, or leave it to suffer?
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Thanks for answering guys. I have always been taught never to shoot a bird unless its in flight. I have mostly hunted puddle ducks and was able to jump shoot them. Then I jumped up and yelled at a Bufflehead to convince him to leave the water. I wasn't expecting him to go under, I didn't know what to do. I wanted to establish we're the majority of people stood on this subject before the season.
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The only divers I shoot are Canvasbacks, and I only shoot them in flight. If I've crippled a bird of course I'll hit it with a cripple load to finish it off if I can't get to it first...but I have only ever crippled one bird out of multiple seasons hunted fairly hard.
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I dont like to but when it comes to duck hunting i use to only go out when i don't have meat or money because with a box of shells I can limit out and get enough meat to fill some of the freezer(i.e. i would shoot ducks off the water). now that i have some more money i only do it when im bow hunting them in a local creek.
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