Sky busters

[lokidog]

Some idiot shot my 10yr old son in the head sky busting yesterday!!!  It didnt break the skin but did leave a nice welt.  I stood up and and yelled we are over here and you just shot us!  I made sure my boy was ok and was about to go have a talk with the moron but he high tailed it out of there.  It was the eve hunt and we set up on the end of the pond and this guy set up about 150yards from us.

Glad to hear your boy is OK.  I think they are lucky you did not catch up.

[h2ofowlr]

Some idiot shot my 10yr old son in the head sky busting yesterday!!!  It didnt break the skin but did leave a nice welt.  I stood up and and yelled we are over here and you just shot us!  I made sure my boy was ok and was about to go have a talk with the moron but he high tailed it out of there.  It was the eve hunt and we set up on the end of the pond and this guy set up about 150yards from us.

I wouldn't have been so nice.

[mrmoskillz]

Some idiot shot my 10yr old son in the head sky busting yesterday!!!  It didnt break the skin but did leave a nice welt.  I stood up and and yelled we are over here and you just shot us!  I made sure my boy was ok and was about to go have a talk with the moron but he high tailed it out of there.  It was the eve hunt and we set up on the end of the pond and this guy set up about 150yards from us.

Glad to hear your boy is OK.  I think they are lucky you did not catch up.

Thanks Lokidog he is fine and said now he has a cool story to tell.  After seeing he was ok I jokingly said do you want me to shoot him back?  He said no look at him run he is scared enough and laughed

[mrmoskillz]

Some idiot shot my 10yr old son in the head sky busting yesterday!!!  It didnt break the skin but did leave a nice welt.  I stood up and and yelled we are over here and you just shot us!  I made sure my boy was ok and was about to go have a talk with the moron but he high tailed it out of there.  It was the eve hunt and we set up on the end of the pond and this guy set up about 150yards from us.

I wouldn't have been so nice.

it took me a few minutes to cool down but my fist concern was to make sure he was ok and didnt have a pellet stuck in his head.  It did hit hard though he had a head ache for an hour or so.  His Mom said he needs to wear a helmet from now on lol

[Atroxus]

Some idiot shot my 10yr old son in the head sky busting yesterday!!!  It didnt break the skin but did leave a nice welt.  I stood up and and yelled we are over here and you just shot us!  I made sure my boy was ok and was about to go have a talk with the moron but he high tailed it out of there.  It was the eve hunt and we set up on the end of the pond and this guy set up about 150yards from us.

I wouldn't have been so nice.

it took me a few minutes to cool down but my fist concern was to make sure he was ok and didnt have a pellet stuck in his head.  It did hit hard though he had a head ache for an hour or so.  His Mom said he needs to wear a helmet from now on lol

Man I am glad your son is okay, and it sounds to me like you handled it perfectly.  I think most of us parents hearing a story like this have the knee jerk reaction of "Shoot the SOB". I would like to think that most of us if actually placed in similar situations though would be more concerned about the well-being of our children before chasing after some *censored*-waffle to exact revenge. 

[Stilly bay]

I have learned to put up with sky busters as a fact of life... what I can't handle anymore are the crappy callers or the callers who will blow their call at any airborne bird no matter how far away. a ducks hearing isn't that much better than our own, they can't hear you from two miles away.

[CP]

One man’s easy chip shot is another man’s sky bust. 

And one man’s crappy calling is another man’s duck music.

[cue772]

So its all a matter of perspective CP? I would totally agree.
Its just that some folks perspectives can sure ruin a good hunt!

[TheSkyBuster]

 
Sorry!


 













 

[Kola16]

I was wondering if you were going to say something 

[TheSkyBuster]

I was wondering if you were going to say something 

 

I'm shooting a beretta AL391 Urika  (3" shells only), So maybe Im not as good of a Skybuster as I used to be with the ol mossberg 835.    Might be time to change my name to "TheWaterSwatter"     
I hunt crowded public land alot.  (more often than private land in the early season)    And I can usually do pretty well despite lots of shooting.  Of course there will always be cases of birds cupped and coming in untill the guy a 100 or 200 yards away shoots (for whatever reason) and the birds flair, it doesn't matter if they shoot at the birds coming into my spread or they shoot at something else in the other direction.  The birds coming in to my spread still flair.  Thats a fact of life on public land it's going to happen.  I try to ignore the other guys  and set myself up in a "good spot" close to where the birds want to be, and where they will most likely be coming to me without flying over another hunter (spread)   of course good concelement and a realistic decoy spread will also help in a succesfull hunt.   If I'm bagging birds and having a good time in the blind The other Idjits in the Field are just free entertainment. 

[bush_beater]

i feel the same about coot sloosers!   some donkeys were shooting right at us trying to bust them on the water when we were benefitting from the Live Action ya yaya!

met this other genius last year who ran ahead of me and cut me off as i was packin decoys in for an eve hunt...he had to give his kids a quick lesson on ethics and coot sloosin i guess aftter what sounded like a small firefight-i could see his upland dog would not jump in the icy water as crippled coots flopped everywhere, they ran over and asked if my lab would help them out.  i let mags get one bird(he kinda had bitter beer face too, kinda funny!)then left.

[Skagit_Hunter]

Carried a gun duck hunting for the first time in 1959, bitched then about sky busters.  Just seems to be part of waterfowl hunting that will always be there.  Mostly, I think, it's just inexperienced hunters who really have no concept of the range of a shotgun.  I'm just amazed at how many shells some of these guys carry.

I was right behind you. We called em Seattle hunters back then. Still carry no more than around 10 shells. If you can't get it done with 10 your doing something wrong.

[Atroxus]

Carried a gun duck hunting for the first time in 1959, bitched then about sky busters.  Just seems to be part of waterfowl hunting that will always be there.  Mostly, I think, it's just inexperienced hunters who really have no concept of the range of a shotgun.  I'm just amazed at how many shells some of these guys carry.

I was right behind you. We called em Seattle hunters back then. Still carry no more than around 10 shells. If you can't get it done with 10 your doing something wrong.

I am still new to duck shooting, and I am guessing if you saw me in action you would call me a sky buster too. My first attempt at ducks I burned over a box of shells and hit just one duck. I had an experienced hunter(Stilly Bay) with me though confirming when ducks were in or out of range and I just not good at gauging how much lead to give on ducks yet. My last outing with Kola16 I used just over half a box of shells and again only hit one duck. I was even missing some ducks at less than 20 yards.  I don't consider myself a sharpshooter by any stretch, but I don't consider myself a terrible shot either. I have practiced by shooting trap, and my miss to hit ratio on Pheasant is about 60%,  but ducks seem WAAAY harder to hit. You ever think maybe it's a new hunter who could use a few tips? Personally I plan to start trying sporting clays instead of trap shooting to see if that gets me better at hitting ducks.

I can only speak for myself, but if I was out in the field and doing something wrong I would prefer if someone approached me *politely* and suggested a better way, rather than just bad-mouth me on an internet forum and hope that I mystically got better at duck hunting on my own. 

[Heartsblood]

I am still new to duck shooting, and I am guessing if you saw me in action you would call me a sky buster too. My first attempt at ducks I burned over a box of shells and hit just one duck. I had an experienced hunter(Stilly Bay) with me though confirming when ducks were in or out of range and I just not good at gauging how much lead to give on ducks yet. My last outing with Kola16 I used just over half a box of shells and again only hit one duck. I was even missing some ducks at less than 20 yards.  I don't consider myself a sharpshooter by any stretch, but I don't consider myself a terrible shot either. I have practiced by shooting trap, and my miss to hit ratio on Pheasant is about 60%,  but ducks seem WAAAY harder to hit. You ever think maybe it's a new hunter who could use a few tips? Personally I plan to start trying sporting clays instead of trap shooting to see if that gets me better at hitting ducks.

I can only speak for myself, but if I was out in the field and doing something wrong I would prefer if someone approached me *politely* and suggested a better way, rather than just bad-mouth me on an internet forum and hope that I mystically got better at duck hunting on my own. 

Well said. Everyone has to learn. It takes courage to attempt to learn a new skill, especially reaching out for mentorship. Good on you for going for it!