King,

I am either awestruck by your record of losing only 3 ducks in a lifetime of gunning, or when something seems to good to be true, well you know.

Any reasonable person knows, and acknowledges that in gunning for any fowl, birds will be mortally hit, and show no sign of it, and be completely unrecoverable, to no fault of the sportsman.

You my friend, have wounded and lost more than three ducks in your lifetime, dog or none. You cannot reasonably think that if you accidently killed more blacks on the morning mentioned than meant with your volley, that you have not also been the fault of a stray pellet into an adjacent duck in a flock to the one you later plucked.

And it is ok.

FS

Last edited by Forrest Smith; 12/25/07 11:34 PM.