Walt's and Ed's problem is that they are trying to compare their local situation and ethics to a very different place. All the animals were legally taken, I would tell them both to save the name calling for those that break the law.

Doves and Rock pigeons are a nuisance bird that we were told take 60% of the harvest. I remember seeing 50-200 birds within shotgun range at time and shot 3 flats of shells before lunch. It was estimated we took 2,000 birds out of the field and it did not begin to make a dent in the numbers. The locals do not have the means to control the numbers but were very grateful for the birds that were distributed to them after the shoot.

Where I currently live I seldom see a deer, however where I used to live they were far to numerous and considered by many to be "rats with hooves". One year I shot 80 antlerless deer on crop damage permits. The meat was given to a church for distribution to the needy. Did that make me a game hog by trying to control the numbers?