Originally Posted by
The Great Kahuna
If another hunter, not in your party, flushes and shots at a bird, and misses, can you take a shot? I was out alone, saw no other hunter, heard a shot, saw a pheasant flying that didn't seem to be hit. The shooter must have been a hundred yards away behind corn stalks. I passed the bird up, and it flew off. Should I have taken a shot?
Yes, there is no problem shooting at a bird that someone else missed so long as it is out of that person's gun range. Hunter A misses a pheasant, it flys a hundred yards past hunte rB, perfectly acceptable for hunter B to shoot the bird.