not dead ducks

[runningboard]

hey guys, I was recently driving my kids to school and we noticed waterfowl on the road every 1/2 mile or so for a long ways and my little girl asks, "Dad, what are those?" I replied that I thought they were ducks and maybe they were falling out of a duck-hunter's boat as he travelled towards wherever he was going. BUT, on my way home I stopped to chuck one of 'em off the road, since an eagle got hit by a snowplow eating dead stuff on the road last year, and the duck was still alive! is this normal? I don't hunt waterfowl so don't know how things work but shouldn't you be sure they're dead? I figured the others might have gotten kicked out by another "still kicking" one in the boat.

[bobcat]

Maybe somebody with a twisted sense of humor thinking it would be funny to drop all their ducks off on the road? I don't know. Can't think of any other explanation.

And the one still being alive...well, how alive was it? I mean was it up walking around or just lying there with an eye open looking at you? Could you tell if these ducks had been shot? What species?

[WAcoyotehunter]

Weird story...not sure what to think of it.  Seems unlikely that they were falling (without help) out of a boat or truck 

[runningboard]

not being a waterfowl hunter I don't know species, but it had been shot, was bloody and alive enough to lift it's head and look at me. I didn't have anything with me to dispatch it.

[ICEMAN]

Try your heel, wring it's neck, hold the body and strike the head against something hard....

[wastickslinger]

I usually save the lead and wring the neck. I cant say I have ever dispatched a bird.