Chuck, you're right about wounding being common with birds, and I posted here some time ago that if I were king I would permit hunting them only with dogs, elitest as it is. My buddy and I this year knocked down eleven blacks with one shot each, three over our limit of four blacks each of a bag of five, and within 15 seconds there were seven belly-up and four in 10 acres of bullrushes and reeds. Jake got them.

On Joe's point concerning ethical shooting, each has his own. Joe's aren't mine. To be critical in civil talk, however, is not to trash. Disssent is the gospel; where it is absent is my notion of hell. Canada and the United States are neighbours, friends, biggest trading partners but agree to disagree on many things where national interests are concerned. Canada developed differently because it wanted to be different from Americans.

Trashing another's opinion is immature, and censure of it is a distinguishing mark of this board.