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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
only because there are lots of idiotic hunters. I have shot and killed hundreds of animals, never purely for fun and never has one "escaped" for long. Granted it does happen but i would say it's pretty rare
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One hopes it's rare, but you can't be sure, especially wing shooting. One pellet in the body at long range and the pheasant is still going to fly away and die slowly - and unlike a deer you can't be reasonably sure you can track it and finish it.
And I have come across several dead deer in the woods, wounded and not tracked down, dead hours or days later from the wound, so I know that there are idiotic hunters.
I shot one deer that had it's leg nearly shot off by someone else. They never walked up and claimed it. I would just as soon not taken it because it was a spike buck, but I couldn't let it suffer.
The point being, pigeon shoots may seem cruel, but we do crueler things, and more horrible things happen on this planet a hundred thousand times a day.
I think it's kinda sweet that guy was trying to stop a bunch of rich folks having a pigeon shoot. I don't see much point in having some big shots paying $500 to shoot birds somebody else raised. But I've participated in rural pigeon shoots when I was a kid and a young man, it's not a girls sport, no, but it's good training for wing shooting.