Home Forums Birds & Dogs Waterfowl Ethical question: why not shoot ducks on the water?

Here’s another couple examples of “no-shots” with a bow on a standing or slowly moving animal though at very close range.

So standing or lying by themselves are not by far the exclusive qualifiers of an ethical shot.

The first bull turned 90* to his right and gave me his backside going away while the second one took a rapid step forward covered by twigs again. From the beginning I had no intentions of taking either bull which eventually meant no meat going home. But shooting with a cell phone is almost as much fun and a lot less work.