It's a sporting thing. Same as ground swatting a pheasant or shooting a grouse out of a tree. Nothing illegal about it, just not sporting.
But another reason it's bad form to shoot a duck in the water is because there usually is a couple hundred dollars worth of decoys around and it sucks ventilating them.


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