Innocent birds my arse! Wait until you step on a pheasant and drop your gun and a few other thing when it startles you. How about when your partner drops a goose and the goose maliciously falls on you, almost knocking you out? How about dropping a surf scoter only to have said scoter attempt a Kamikaze run on your partner's canoe, almost flipping it? These fowl were not innocent. Surely they could have chosen a different path, but noooooooooo, they didn't.

Ducks also have the opportunity to choose when and where they land. The right presentation of decoys is needed to attract ducks on a regular basis, just like fishing.

Jumpshooting, which is what we were doing, is a bit like sightcasting. You see 'em, but you don't always get 'em.

What about those poor innocent fish? What did they ever do to you?