I know its legal in Oregon because one time just shortly after shooting time,I had to kill a cripple. Well it just so happened thatthe local state trooper/game warden was close enough to hear my shot and came and talked to me,I just told him it was a cripple, which it was. He told me he was gladI took the time to retrieve it instead of just letting it go for coon bait. Oh, duckmasta, in your post you never said you shot your pintail drake, you just said you saw it in a canal, so did you shoot it or just kill it with rocks? And like Rebel Dog said, whereI am from a pintail drake isthe 6 pointbull elk of waterfowling. Without any pressure, he would have been therethe next day.