re: Duck not floating

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second, it's poor form to shoot a bird on the water unless you're a small kid. there's nothing sporting about a skillet shot unless it's to dispatch a cripple. and you spare no expense to dispatch the crip.

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So it is more "sporty" to shoot a duck that was just flying by? I find the sport in hunting to be outsmarting the animal and getting a duck to decoy is much more difficult than throwing steel in the sky hoping to hit a high flyer. In fact it used to be frowned upon to shoot a duck that hadn't lit in the decoys.