I thought I' d get some of you guys fired up. I was recalling last seasons turkey hunts, and remebered this strange one. My brother and I like to roost birds down to our camp the night before. He went one way, I another. Meeting back after. He told me he' d walked right under a roosted Tom while still light enough to see. The tom never flew. He decided in the morning he was going to get as close to that bird as possible in the dark, and shoot him off the roost at legal light. I told him why not just work him after he flys down, and I highly doubted he could do it that way. He' d only taken a small jake before, and was excited about getting his second anyway it was legal. Nothing we found in the books read it was illegal. I told him he was on his own, and I was going to setup elsewhere. Well at first legal light I heard him shoot. He indeed shot that tom off its roost. I started picking on him, when he made a point to me. Many consider taking a deer out of its bed a great hunt, so why should doing the same to a tom be any different. I guess I couldn' t argue his point. He made the decision, it was legal, and he was proud.
So what to you guys think, ethical or not. And would you consider it???