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Good to see someone happy about banging away at hens
It may not be illegal but it is unethical.
Not that he did anything illegal but i get annoyed by bags of almost all hens. We should be hunting for drakes and get the occasional hen as a by-product. In many species males can service multiple females and if you lose a female then lose all her offspring, lose a male and someone else will do the job. There is also a hen mortality factor due to the increased risk involved with nesting. Hens are much more susceptible to predation when nesting or raising young. I could have limited every time I have hunted so far this year but it would have been because I was intentionally gunning for hens. It may not be illegal but it is unethical.
CP what is with the full of *censored* comment, I wasn't being rude I was simply stating facts you obviously know as much about biology as you do about hunting, nothing. I am sure they take it into consideration, which is why in some states 1 hen mallard counts as two birds toward your limit and in other states you are only allowed 1 hen mallard. I am sure they also take into consideration that most hunters will aim for drakes instead of hens, and what are they going to do say "you can't shoot any hens." It's not pheasant hunting where the birds are drastically different and they don't fly in flocks. If they did that most people would be afraid of hunting because they wouldn't want to risk hitting a hen. Luckily for jacka**es like CP there are activist groups such as DU that wouldn't let that happen and all I am saying is that we should do our part an if possible refrain from hen hunting just so we can have a full bag. But then again you westies are all alike take everything and leave nothing.
Great post DD. Sounds like you did well and had a great time. Can't wait to see the pic's!!!!!!