[YoungBuck14]

I don't hunt ducks but i do hunt dove and will only shoot a bird off the ground or a tree if i or a fellow hunter with me obviously clipped it with a previous shot. The only reason is it will likely die later and i would rather eat it than a yote. I don't disagree with young hunters killing birds not in flight to build confidence but see no reason for older qualified hunters to do it.(disclaimer) unless they NEED the food. I don't hunt dove because i need the food i do it because i like to eat them. If me or my family EVER have any kind of question about having food to put on the table i will shoot ever landed dove, duck, quail and sparrows if it gets bad enough.

Covey shooting is very unethical tho one or two birds may fall have you ever counted how many pellets are in a single 7.5 shot. if even half of those pellets hit birds that don't go down that is plenty of wounded birds. My most common hunting partner is my cousin and one time last year sticks out specifically to me. We had walked serveral sunflower fields and jumped a couple of dove but nothing special. We finally decided to walk over the tank dam and see what we saw. As we crested the dam there was a cloud of dove enough to literally make a shadow. We both stood in aww and watched and when they were all gone we just asked why the other didn't shoot. The answers were the same.."there was no single birds to shoot at. we would have wounded WAY to many birds" so everyone of those hundreds of birds flew off. Moral of that story i felt much better about not shooting those birds and wounding none than dropping a few but wounding many more.