Shooting ducks on the water? :)

I am special if you don't do it this way like me you are not as great as I am.

You make your own decisions based on what you feel you should do. Don't let others make up your mind.

I prefer them sleeping on the pond.

Legal is my bench mark.
 
I could care less who thinks what method is sporting. Dead is dead, wounded is wounded. That being said the only time I am a water swatter is on cripples. Ducks are DAMNED hard to kill on water. Much, much, harder than on the wing and I don't means in terms of actually hitting them. I mean killing them. When they are flying and especially in tight slowed down over decoys or opened up or slowed right down trying to get going again they are much easier to put pellets in the vitals and kill. Sneaking up on them I would flush them as they are much more vulnerable to good vital hits than sitting low on or in the water with wings folded over the body. It seems with the larger shot sizes required with steel head hits on the water do not come easy beyond 20-25 yards due to pattern density. Those are my thoughts on the subject.
 
Ducks are hard to hit sitting still let alone flying. It's as unsporting to shoot at flying ducks as it is sitting ones as they percentage wounded is very high.
 
If I had shot at a duck sitting on the water as a teen, I would not have been taken hunting again for a very long time. It's something we never did then, and that I don't do now. But if shooting a duck on the water is the only way that you can hit them, and it is legal, I could care less what you do.
 
1963beretta said:
I prefer wingshooting ducks but I have no issues shooting a duck on water if thats what the situation calls for. But shooting ducks at night under a moon is not just the most unsporting and discusting act, its down right criminal.
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it was not in Canada ... again do not judge without knowing, thank you.
 
I jump shoot and I don't have a dog. If I can get one sitting where I can retrieve it easily, it is fair game. I usually shoot them out of the air, but it is not a necessity in my ethics. As long as it is not illegal, it is fair game as far as I'm concerned.

That being said, I don't have anything against other hunters that only shoot flying birds, or only shoot drakes or bucks with at least 10 points or only use a .349 shootsenboomer with 217 grain bullets and pink streamers hanging f ok the barrel. If that's your thing, then go for it, but likewise, don't judge me for what I do legally.
 
1963beretta said:
Doesnt change a thing...its still discusting and criminal regardless of where it takes place. And don't post on public forums if you cant handle judgements
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you are not listening when in a place it is called a custom and used for centuries i still do not get it about criminal and discusting lol .... judgement from you lol ....

by the way i used to shoot wild boar under the moon at night from high seat .....
 
Not much sport in shooting a sitting duck....its something I haven't even thought of doing since I was a kid in the 60's.
 
My concern is making sure where the pellets go. A previous co-worker told me himself about this: he was hiding in the reeds calling ducks as a teenager with his dad when two guys came up and started shooting at the ducks on the water. About 25 pellets penetrated any exposed skin from the ricochet. To this day he refuses to hunt over water and has a scar just under his left eye lid, as well as wrists, face, neck, and so forth. I have seen the scars myself on some of these places. A couple even made it though his pants into his thigh.

Their excuse was there was nothing wrong with shooting ducks on the water, and they shouldn't have made such a perfect improvised blind.

The event happened years ago: it if happened today those two hunters, for shooting a kid who had to go to the hospital, would be penniless, guns confiscated and a lot of property seized.
 
My first task as a young duck hunter was to dispatch any cripples or flappers in the decoy spread. Soon found it to be somewhat difficult to kill them on the water as much of the body is at the waterline or below...more so when crippled. Found small shot like 7 1/2 or 8 shot to do the best as head shots ensured a belly up duck . This was so exciting to a kid branishing a single shot 16 gauge. I can still remember the orange Canuck paper shells with such a delicious odor once fired.
 
I did when MUCH younger, and when a lot of my hunting was along the east coast, like the OP. If you were able to sneak up on an eider or scoter, you took the shot. Those birds generally dive to escape, rather than fly. They'd just pop up about 100 yards out & keep swimming. Since moving west, where the duck hunting is far, far better, there's just no need. Any bird that swims into the dekes just adds to the effectiveness of the spread. Any that sneak by and land before I get a shot, get a free pass. When jump-shooting, I wait 'til the birds actually jump. And I'm with The Spank on killing shots. A sitting bird is much harder to kill cleanly, unless it's a head shot. I finally found some #7 steel to use for head shot cripple rounds.

Thanks, Gatehouse for attempting to improve the spelling of the forum, but efforts along these lines are generally met with abuse and scorn from the illiterate masses. I'll sign up for some of that by pointing out that the term so often butchered these days is actually "I couldn't care less", as in 'I do not care at all'.
 
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