They wouldn't do that on Lake Miccosukee where I use to hunt. We had GWs tell us how many we had before we even showed them!
spoke to these two younger hunters and they said that they hot there limit and only recovered four birds. That kind of stuff just pisses me off, 4 out of 12 are you kidin me. If you down some birds go and get them, don't just keep shootin and then see how many you can find. this kinda stuff has to stop or maybe they need to do an ethics class with that hunter safty course. Some times i'm ashamed to call myselfe a hunter with people like this out there.
Two ways to look at this. First is the obvious: 8 wasted birds. Nobody likes to see that. Personally, I go after the birds as soon as they are shot so as to avoid losing any of them. Maybe these guys were dirtbags and didn't care about the wasted birds.
The second way is that they killed their limit and then quit shooting, even though they only had 4 birds to show for it. Lots of guys would have gone right back to shooting since they only had 4 birds in hand. The whole point of the limits is to limit the # of birds killed. These two guys didn't kill any more than their limit...just didn't utilize the birds killed unfortunately. Maybe they were just inexperienced and didn't know how to find the birds or something.
I obviously wasn't there and didn't see the attitude of the two young hunters but that sounds to me like there was an opportunity to provide a bit of advice or even "show and tell" on a better way to do things. I find it helps to step in and provide a bit of training instead of relying on the hunter safety course to be the end all learning tool on how to be a complete hunter. You can't expect a class that somebody took in 1 day when they were however old (9 in my case) to set them up for life.
+1 on that. when I started hunting in 75 nobody in my family hunted and had no one to teach me the ropes and any info I got was from my own mistakes, books,magazines and tv shows and the few hunters I would come across in the woods or gun clubs. a site like this would have saved me countless hours, sore feet, money and no game.
