I read your story, don’t know why your offended when you were called out for taking a “charity shot” as you call it. It’s obvious by your own words the bird wasn’t in range for a ethical shot which would lead to a quick clean kill of the goose. Congrats on the band.
Glad u think I’m unethical and a skybuster. Anyone who has hunted geese knows you can cripple a bird regardless if it is 20 yds or 70 yds away. I killed a bunch of birds this year it was a great year. Call me what ya want I know I really don’t need any advice when it comes to bird hunting. After hunting for 20 years one knows his range and killing ability. I can’t wait till next year hopefully I’ll have some more charity shot tories to get everyones “feathers” ruffled again haha!
You were smart to edit your post. Your first response really showed your true colors. Everyone does know there limitations, when one exceeds them and is proud of it, it just gives the rest of the hunters a bad name. Crippling birds is a high percentage when you take those kinds of shots and everyone including you knows it. That is unethical hunting period!
The fact that you are proud of taking pot shots at birds out of range is truly sad.
LOL! So once again if the bird is dead and I retreive it how is it crippled and out of range again? How is that unethical? You guys and your what ifs and what coulda happened crack me up! I coulda been a lawyer and what if I played in the nfl!! I didn’t write a post on how I wounded a banded goose it was how I KILLED the bird. Dream up something else to talk about, talk about your birds that you cripple, I don’t cripple the geese I KILL them, huge difference buddy! So shed a tear in your beer once again over my dead 16 year old goose that in fantasy land didn’t die and is crippled, and how unethical it was to shoot the poor little birdie with a 3.5 inch shotgun shell at a whopping 45 yards, what a sad story! Do u hunt or just take pictures of the birds, I like pictures of the ones we shoot.
I love your true colors. Shows exactly what you are. Now a charity shot is only 45 yds. Whatever, lead the next wounded goose at 45 yds by 7 feet, right. Just get to reality world, if a goose is out of ethical range don’t shoot at them, most of the time they are only wounded as in your initial charity shots. You got lucky and a wounded goose came back and you got lucky. God only knows how many geese are crippled each year by people who think that taking pot shots at geese is a good idea. You can try and divert the topic to my hunting, not going to happen. This is all about you getting upset when called out for shooting at birds out of range, read your own words, you just look silly trying to defend your actions.
Yep I am one lucky hunter, I got lucky and killed 33 geese and 4 bands. Can’t imagine how many I crippled, give me a break. How about you just worry about yourself and your shots, and don’t tell someone else what to do? Maybe become a biologist and go count crippled geese, since you are so concerned about it. Anyone who hunts knows that sometimes you don’t kill all the birds you shoot at. Yes I did lead the goose by 7 feet at 45 yards, we had about a 25 mph wind out of the north that day and the bird was obviously flying with the wind, but I don’t have to explain dead birds to anyone. Must have been a bad year for all you people that have nothing better to talk about than the “Crippled geese”, I sure the heck didn’t see any cripples where we hunt, saw a lot of dead ones laying in the fields and floating in the water with BBs in there heads. Go pattern your shotgun at 50 yds with a mod. choke and 3.5 inches of 2 shot, black cloud, and tell me you can’t kill a bird at that range, you would be not to shoot a goose at 50 yds. Of course folks like yourself and others probly see birds getting shot at 70-80 yds on some marsh somewhere, but I don’t hunt on the marsh for geese, way to many people. Anyway I hope next year you can share some stories of your own and quit coaching people that obviously know more than you do on this topic. Have fun with you philosophy of what ifs and percentages. I just go by facts, the fact is I didn’t cripple a single goose and killed 33, welcome to the real world and good luck next year! Like you said “God” only knows how many geese are crippled, so don’t try to take over his job worrying about it and policing the situation, your wasting your time in your mind.
That’s about enough!