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Originally posted by M.T. Pockets
If you have a license and the game is in season, there is nothing unethical about taking an animal of a different kind than what you had in mind when you went out hunting. The last thing we need as hunters is to judge another hunter who is hunting legally and ethically. Nothing unethical about taking advantage of a chance at a squirrell when you're hunting rabbits.
Where I come from a "pot shot" is when a duck is shot on the water. This might be legal, but it doesn't pass the smell test when it comes to being ethical.
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Yeah... I got into this with a fellow I work with on developing a game management plan for the state of Hawaii. I hunt without a dog. If I see an Erkel, I shoot it, ground or air. Turkey, ground or air, quail, ground or air, pheasant, which if you see it on the ground its dang near 100 yards away already... but given the chance... ground sluicing I've heard it called.... yep absolutely.. and I do all this carnage with a single shot muzzleloader shotgun... and I do it legally.
Now, Mr. M.T. Pockets, maybe you should be doin a little ground sluicing yourself and fill them MT Pockets.... :grin: How in the world could shooting a duck, a quail, a turkey, any of these be unethical? What is the point of hunting? TO KILL THE DAMN THING! And trust me, without a dog, the ETHICAL thing is to kill it, and the best way to do that is to kill it when I can, not when its running. And its funny, when you shoot into a covey and you aim at one bird, usually its that bird only except on rare occasion in the case of quail, maybe 1 or two others... the rest go off in a cloud of dust.
How is it unethical to kill the animal you are going after? This is not competition. This is hunting, not horseshoes. The consequences are if I miss, I may not eat... bad. If I hit it, I get to eat... good. This equates to the wrong/right thing to do.. :grin:
Aloha..
