Upland Game Etiquette Question
11-02-2021, 05:22 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 7
Upland Game Etiquette Question
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?
11-02-2021, 05:32 PM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,744
as long at it was safe to shoot at, you certainly could have
but there is also nothing wrong with leaving it for the other hunters to try and flush again!
most pheasant hunters I think will have more issues with hunters that set up waiting for them to drive things towards them, using them as drivers like in a deer drive!
and them someone shooting at things they flush, in there direction,
that to me is POOR sportsmanship as well as a safety issue!
but seen it happen many times in my life time!
had BB's rained on me a few too many times!
I personally hunt as far away from others as I can , as I sadly know there are many bad /unsafe hunters out there!
but there is also nothing wrong with leaving it for the other hunters to try and flush again!
most pheasant hunters I think will have more issues with hunters that set up waiting for them to drive things towards them, using them as drivers like in a deer drive!
and them someone shooting at things they flush, in there direction,
that to me is POOR sportsmanship as well as a safety issue!
but seen it happen many times in my life time!
had BB's rained on me a few too many times!
I personally hunt as far away from others as I can , as I sadly know there are many bad /unsafe hunters out there!
11-03-2021, 10:34 AM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: south eastern PA
Posts: 14,243
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?
11-03-2021, 10:38 AM
#4
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: south eastern PA
Posts: 14,243
Originally Posted by mrbb
as long at it was safe to shoot at, you certainly could have
but there is also nothing wrong with leaving it for the other hunters to try and flush again!
most pheasant hunters I think will have more issues with hunters that set up waiting for them to drive things towards them, using them as drivers like in a deer drive!
and them someone shooting at things they flush, in there direction,
that to me is POOR sportsmanship as well as a safety issue!
but seen it happen many times in my life time!
had BB's rained on me a few too many times!
I personally hunt as far away from others as I can , as I sadly know there are many bad /unsafe hunters out there!
but there is also nothing wrong with leaving it for the other hunters to try and flush again!
most pheasant hunters I think will have more issues with hunters that set up waiting for them to drive things towards them, using them as drivers like in a deer drive!
and them someone shooting at things they flush, in there direction,
that to me is POOR sportsmanship as well as a safety issue!
but seen it happen many times in my life time!
had BB's rained on me a few too many times!
I personally hunt as far away from others as I can , as I sadly know there are many bad /unsafe hunters out there!
11-03-2021, 01:27 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,744
Originally Posted by Oldtimr
You haven't lived till you and your arty start moving through a standing corn field and un beknown to you some other hunters saw your push start and the idiots hustle to the other end of the corn field and wait for the birds to start flying and start shooting in your direction. That gets real ugly real fast.
which is why, I more less stopped hunting if I see others where I WAS going to go
its also why I used to drive out west a lot to hunt wild pheasants, where I never had a problem finding a place to myself and my dog, heck, I've hunted out there for 10 days in a row and never seen another hunter,
I really don't like being used a driver for strangers or shot at over silly game!
SO< YES ,, I sadly have lived to experience that, far too much to be honest!
as I said, there are a lot of BAD hunters out there sadly, that ruin things for the rest and make us all look bad in doing so!
11-03-2021, 02:01 PM
#6
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: south eastern PA
Posts: 14,243
Originally Posted by mrbb
OH I have been trhere many times and had this happen
which is why, I more less stopped hunting if I see others where I WAS going to go
its also why I used to drive out west a lot to hunt wild pheasants, where I never had a problem finding a place to myself and my dog, heck, I've hunted out there for 10 days in a row and never seen another hunter,
I really don't like being used a driver for strangers or shot at over silly game!
SO< YES ,, I sadly have lived to experience that, far too much to be honest!
as I said, there are a lot of BAD hunters out there sadly, that ruin things for the rest and make us all look bad in doing so!
which is why, I more less stopped hunting if I see others where I WAS going to go
its also why I used to drive out west a lot to hunt wild pheasants, where I never had a problem finding a place to myself and my dog, heck, I've hunted out there for 10 days in a row and never seen another hunter,
I really don't like being used a driver for strangers or shot at over silly game!
SO< YES ,, I sadly have lived to experience that, far too much to be honest!
as I said, there are a lot of BAD hunters out there sadly, that ruin things for the rest and make us all look bad in doing so!
11-03-2021, 03:29 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Germany/Calif.
Posts: 2,664
My favorite is when another hunter closer to the bird freezes and you wait until the last possible second and bring it down, the same with a missed shot and they wait way too long to take a second shot. They get upset and give you the stink eye. Where I come from the last shot gets the bird. Seems like many times I've stood there for what seems like forever waiting for somebody else to shoot and they don't, no idea why.
