It's hard to justify shooting pheasants to a kid.

we hunt deer because they are overpopulated...

Oh bullshit. We shoot deer because it's fun and they taste good. Same with pheasant.

 

Oh bullshit. We shoot deer because it's fun and they taste good.

Don't beat around the bush.Tell me how you really feel.[hihi]

 

A killers will shoot anything anywhere anytime because they are a killer. They shoot to eat.

This has been a practice that has not been herd about much lately. It was common with charter caps in the South 30 years agao.

teasers along side the boat and free gaffed mia. I didn't say dolphin because of others not knowing the differance between a fish or a mamel. Yjeu sold the fish and that was quick way to not spend anytime on rod and reel. They also free gaffed turtles and their were some hoorror storys how the turtlles cried like babies.

Ethics? Shots that are and shots that arn't who are you to tell another if they can make a certain shot that they are wrong?

Every one makes decisions and some are good and some are not. Just as easy as trying to make a good clean shot and not see a twig and a shot deflect can happen so actually what is there to say.

Its obvious to all that a good clean shot is prefered and thats the best chance of 100% but things do happen and its like your not even considering that.

 

Theres just as many small game or waterfowl that get lost as big game and proably more.

Guys don't have dogs to recover whether its small game or waterfowl. Thats as bad or worse than a deer isn't it?

 

With so many people out Pheasant hunting it becomes relitivly unsafe to take a bird on the ground, nearly every year you hear of a bird hunter shot because someone shot at a bird on the ground, A bird flying is not only ethical but safe, in that the shot angle is up words and pelltets falling have spent thier engey and fall harmlessly, and the bird has a good chance at escape.

A deer has it's ears,eyes and nose that give it an advantage, that's why it' in portent to get so close while bowhunting, and with that you want the deer to be unaware an offer the grates chance at a quick clean harvest, so it's "ethical" to take a broadside or quartering away shot at a standing deer.

Flying birds are a smaller target and a shotshell is more than capeable of ending a birds life quickly and cleanly. So a safe and ethical shot on a pheasant in my opinoion should alwas be taken whil the bird is in flight.

 

Oh bullshit. We shoot deer because it's fun and they taste good. Same with pheasant.

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I have shot birds on the ground and in the air.. Didn't ever seem unethical either way. It would have been unethical if I thought I wasn't able to make the shot cleanly. it would be unethical if I thought the shot was unsafe or maybe illegal for some reason of daylight or licensing.. I don't make a habit out of shooting birds on the ground or out of a tree but would be a lyer if I said I never did it. When I was a kid if it would not fly I was told "you tried, now shoot it so we can move on to the next one".. If we had dogs this was never a problem.. Legal, safe, and well practiced shots taken with a euipment worthy of killing your quarry cleanly can never be called unethical.