Originally Posted by Pwyse
Originally Posted by abolt300
Bait, trespassing, starting season early/hunting out of season, drones, electronic calling, over the limit, and shooting them with a rifle, are all cheating in my book. Shooting one off the roost is just not a sporting way of killing one.


What if you were calling to him on the roost and he flew to a tree within 20 yards from you? From tree to tree, never touched the ground? I mean, you called him in, you tricked him… thoughts?


I'm referring more to the situation where someone knows where a bird is roosted, slips in, in the dark, waits for it to start cracking daylight and pops him off the roost just before daylight in a 100% ambush. If it is legal shooting light and I'm calling and a bird comes up in gun range, whether he's walking or flying to get to me, and he's not a jake, he's getting shot. I've killed a bunch that I've been calling and working on the roost that have pitched off the roost and hit the ground in range, and took a load of #5s before they could even take a step. Same difference.