And since I teach Hunter Education -
Ethics - It is beyond fair chase!

I also will not shoot a bird out of a roost.........


Now that does lead me to another question......

Would you shoot one out of a tree??.......well beyond roost time....well beyond fly down time.....you have been working a bird in front and here a cluck off a ridge...not once but several times....you jsut ignore it as the Tom in out front is till in the trees...and then you hear wing beats as you are on a river bootom with lotsa standing water to the ridge side...you actually saw a flight of woodducks land in it.......bird comes flying right at you .....mature Tom and he looks like he flew right off the Wild Turkey Liquor bottle....it is absolutely awesome....you see him and think great he will stop/land right in front ofyou on this river bottom....no decoy out...have wide open river bottom with huge silver maple trees.........trees are wider that you have ever seen......no udnerbrush to worry about
And then the bird stops/lands 20 yards in front of you on the only limb of a tree around and not more than 15 feet up! You are flabbergasted!
And he sits there and gobbles.....Time is 8:15 AM

What would you do?

JW