1st sit of the season

[Ketchup]

And the .25 got the nod.  Set up my pop up blind today for deer season and the crows were thick, so with them fighting the chickens over food daily, i figured i would just see what these taste like, as mama might get upset if i eat one of her precious chickens. 
 

Have i said how much i like this Hawke scope?  

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Ketchup said:

And the .25 got the nod.  Set up my pop up blind today for deer season and the crows were thick, so with them fighting the chickens over food daily, i figured i would just see what these taste like, as mama might get upset if i eat one of her precious chickens. 
 

Have i said how much i like this Hawke scope?  

          Hot dang!

[Ketchup]

Well, my target animal on the left is a lucky feller as his buddies are making me not shoot. 

[Terrierman]

Crows are way too smart - basically sentient birds - to shoot them for no reason other than to kill something.  It's like shooting cardinals or blue jays for the fun of it.

[Ketchup]

59 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

Crows are way too smart - basically sentient birds - to shoot them for no reason other than to kill something.  It's like shooting cardinals or blue jays for the fun of it.

But, we could say that about quail, pheasant, ducks, dove, etc. correct?

[Terrierman]

30 minutes ago, Ketchup said:

But, we could say that about quail, pheasant, ducks, dove, etc. correct?

Nope because those birds are killed to eat, not just to enjoy killing something for no reason.

[Ketchup]

So they are non-edible? 
 

 

[MrGiggles]

I've been going here and there lately. 

Sunday 11/6 I had nice 8pt at 15 yards. He was just about to cross into the opening where I could shoot, and stopped and went the other way. So yeah, they're good at not dying.  When I climbed down I noticed the tree I was in was skylit pretty badly. Live and learn I suppose.

I haven't seen a whole lot for acorns this year. Red oaks have plenty that are good sized, but the white oaks are tiny and hollow, if they have any.

My turnip patch has been more or less untouched for the last month or so. Which is typical, it'll come alive first week of December. Just been hunting sign and acorns where I can find them.

[Terrierman]

9 hours ago, Ketchup said:

So they are non-edible? 
 

 

If you can honestly say you were going to shoot that crow for food - which I seriously doubt - that's different.  I feel the same way about bowfishing.  For food, fine, for the enjoyment of killing - I'm out.

[laker67]

Laker and I were "plinkers" in our early married years.  I wish I could say we never shot anything we didn't eat.  One day we were at a dump practicing on cans.  I caught something move out of the corner of my eye, thinking it was a rat.  I told Laker to "shoot it".  My deadeye husband responded, and regretably killed a groundhog.  Never again did we shoot anything we didn't eat.  Oh wait.  There was a house sparrow killing my bluebird babies... In the words of Tom Selleck, "that wasn't shooting, that was killing."