Age for shooting chickens

[sonny]

Jimmy:

I am not trying to suck up to you, but when I saw the picture of your shotgun stock and dogs I can understand from where you are coming from.

I hope you have an excellent hunting season.

Is it just me or does that dog look cross eyed?

Nice shotgun by the way..

[greylynx]

Jimmy:

Please do not take my post as an insult.  I love shotguns and hunting with dogs.

[JIMMY 808]

Is it just me or does that dog look cross eyed?

Nice shotgun by the way..

I think your eyes would be crossed if I held a beer at your nose as well.

[JIMMY 808]

People just don't like it when fellow outdoors people take the holier than thou attitude towards each other is all. If you choose to hunt in a certain manner power to you but don't take some self projected high road over others, pisses people off.
I read an article in the Edmonton Sun a few years ago that Neil Waugh did along the same lines he didn't think it appropriate to shoot the majestic Ruffy on the ground lol, never read his crap again. Maybe you and Neil hold hands as you stroll through the timber together winging Ruffies ?? If you do power to you lol.

I don’t know Neil.

I don't shoot geese on the ground either do you?

[JIMMY 808]

Wing shooting is a blast..That's the only way you get a shot at a bird in southern Ontario..lol

They have skittish birds..they will fly even before you see them on the ground..It's almost like "pull bang".

Birds here just sit there on the ground but they still taste good..

Hey Jimmy did you ever wing shoot with a little 28 gauge?

never found a 28 I liked that I could afford.

shot a browning o/u for a bit but it was likely the worst field gun I ever had.  basically a 20ga frame with 28 barrels not to good.

[Walleyes]

I don’t know Neil.

I don't shoot geese on the ground either do you?

Damn rights I do, if they land in the decoys with their necks stretched out nicely,,, BAMMMM dead bird for the pot.

Jimmy I don't want this to turn into a shit show, but buddy you can't come on an outdoors site and call out fellow outdoorsman like that it's bullshit and you know it. You could have said it's not your thing, you don't like to do it I can respect that and you for it, but don't come on and call me and other assholes because we do things different. Cause in the end the only asshole is you for calling people out. There's a reason we all choose not to be on the other site and that's a big one, the holier than thou crowd.

You can do yourself some justice and reword your comment and an apology might be in order as well, your call.

[JIMMY 808]

Damn rights I do, if they land in the decoys with their necks stretched out nicely,,, BAMMMM dead bird for the pot.

Jimmy I don't want this to turn into a shit show, but buddy you can't come on an outdoors site and call out fellow outdoorsman like that it's bullshit and you know it. You could have said it's not your thing, you don't like to do it I can respect that and you for it, but don't come on and call me and other assholes because we do things different. Cause in the end the only asshole is you for calling people out. There's a reason we all choose not to be on the other site and that's a big one, the holier than thou crowd.

You can do yourself some justice and reword your comment and an apology might be in order as well, your call.

Nope won't do it.

And you should respect this it wouldn't be the truth if I did apologize.

Suspend ban your the judge at this point I made my statement and will stand by it to a certain degree.

Grouse hunting in the east is basically a religion out here in the west there are damn few of us. 

I was born in Alberta just don't want to set you off.

[OL_JR]

    In all seriousness Jimmy I understand what your getting at.  My wingshooting doesn't extend much past geese putting the breaks on and putting the bead on somewhere around the face area.
    I do respect the fact that you can shoot them buggers on the wing, that's a different level of shotguning skill when the speed and brush is factored in.
     However they do taste damn good and to me they are best served with a nicely placed round to the head and no shot to the breast.  Just my personal preference,  I haven't got the wing shooting bug like you do thus far.

[Walleyes]

There's no ban or suspension coming jimmy like I said your choice. Just remember, you set your noose not me.

[greylynx]

I  hope all of my fellow Alberta Sportsman would be able to hunt upland with a shotgun and trained dogs some time in their lives.

It is a hunting experience all of its own.

Could we now get rid of this negative posting contest. Please.

[W101]

Well I'm sorta from the east ....and taking a kid and a couple of 22 s
Out to the Eastern logging roads and stalking and dispatching the ever
 dangerous Ruffie ..... is a time worn familly tradition . Everyone loves it .
 Like a turkey in my neck of the woods ruffs are ground shot and maybe
 Out of a tree .... No dogs ...,
    All other upland shotgun , waterfowl shotgun , no child that I am aware
    has been turned into a psycho poacher by this act .
     It's actually part of our hunting tradition .....if yours is firing a shotgun
      halfhazardly into the underbrush than have at it but please don't demean
       Other people's totally legal hunting passion . Kind of makes you look like
        a jerk .
   

[JIMMY 808]

Not every law is correct.

Simply saying that it is legal doesn’t make it right.  Used to be able to shoot hen pheasants and that sure worked out well?  Fish slot size killing breeders, no swan, or crane seasons, no grizzly season, no quads before noon ect.   

My views on how grouse hunting should be done, make me a jerk on that topic so be it.

IMO if I can have one is Alberta has some very strict fair chase game laws I don’t feel for one second that shooting grouse in the preflight stage is fair.   

[Paul]

I agree something that is legal may not be morally right to certain people. For example, it's legal to throw a 10 lb walleye in the frying pan out of some lakes, but to me it's not right and something I would never do myself. Are there guys that do it? Sure. There are lot's of things my dad and his friends did when I was a kid that I would never do myself either.

My son was diagnosed with autism when he was 3. It's been a hard go for me and the wife, lot's of extra work, special and expensive schools, working with him is a daily challenge. He is a bit wimpy, has motor skills problems, can't see him being able to handle even a .410 to shoot on the wing. But anything he expresses interest in that's outside his box I encourage it, because we want him to be well rounded and to experience everything he can, each new experience helps him along and changes his thinking. We try to take him out of his box as much as we can. So if that means shooting chickens on the ground with a .22 I am good with it, when he gets older we can look at wing shooting, and you can be sure that he will be trying that too, and at that point he can form his own opinions and make his own choices, the end justifies the means. But if I deny him now he could just as easily lose interest in all hunting. My 2 cents on it.

[Brandonkop]

     Grouse can fly...?

      Signed,
   
      Complete Asshole

       

Haha I love it... i never knew they flew either... I've shot at one 4 or 5 times before with the 22 before he finally ran into the bush.  I haven't hunted them since I was a teenager with my grandpa.  If they were sitting on the ground we nailed em on the ground.  If they flew away we shot at them in the air.  We were out to collect these delicious birds for eating.  Can't see how that's any different than going to the store to buy some chicken.  Some people would argue that you are what you say we are since you're just in it for sport, Jimmy.  But I find the birds myself without dogs using my keen sense of sight and sixth sense.