Derek,
I was OK with your spinner because it was wind powered. If Mitch had driven a bad boy buggy up to the edge of the creek and shot those two drakes from it then I would have some issues.
Tim
I think we are starting to pollute the main text. This all started with one guy describing his "good fortune" that he had while hunting some ducks close to home. He was able to harvest his ducks in a legal, ethical manner and was successful at doing so. Since that post, we have recalled talk of spinners and "traditional" hunting and ethics and now we have even brought motorized pursuit of waterfowl into the discussion. It appears to me that Mitch was proud of his hunting prowess and his ability to get so close to the ducks that when they flushed, he actually had to allow them to seperate before shooting to avoid destroying the birds. If feelings were hurt by something said in a previous post or something assumed from a previous post (no hunter is a good hunter unless he hunts over everything handmade, handbuilt) then maybe we should just thicken our own skin a bit. I still haven't figured out how to make cork shell goose decoys so I will continue to use my G&H plastics. Nice story, nice post Mitch! dc