Quote Originally Posted by bwillaub View Post
Not very sporting. Why not just throw chickens up in the air and "kill" them?
I've harvested a lot of birds in my time and I've enjoyed every one of them. This wouldn't interest me in the least.
That's exactly what I experienced one year where where some very affluent folks in our hunting group had bought a bunch of pen raised pheasants knowing it was going to be slim hunting on wild birds that season. We hunted a day and a half on the wild birds and then they proceeded to take the pen raised birds out throwing them in the air and blowing the he!! out of them with great delight for them. I was not participating since I hadn't contributed towards the purchase of the birds. I was hunting with a very good old over the hill brittany and a young green brittany and several of the others had their dogs of various ages out there. I suggested that why didn't they plant those birds and at least get some dog work in and fortunately the other dog owners also thought that would be a good idea and that's what was done. To say the least for me it turned out being a very delightful day watching my young pup get weeks of very good experience compressed during that one sashay through the field that afternoon.