Well, I'm AM a killer. Up to the limit. And there is no "high ground" to not wanting to take a limit, IMO. I delight in all my time afield, but it's a little different for me, I guess. I'm a farmer by trade and by choice, and spend every day afield, so when I go out with a gun and dog I go to kill birds. Not to pretend to enjoy being skunked and say, "Yes, but, it sure was a lovely afternoon to be out".
I want to take a limit of doves or ducks every trip. Of course I don't, but not because I didn't do everything ethically possible to do so. I can't quite understand the reasoning some espouse. I go to the bird field with a gun which I have chosen to shoot as well as I possibly can. I choose the very best loads to kill the game I'm after cleanly and lethally. I study my quarry in order to most effectively encounter it. I use calling, in the case of ducks and some other birds, to get as many to come to me as I can. In short I have done everything in my power to place myself in a position to get as many good shots as possible. And then, I'm supposed to feel bad because I use an ejector double which allows me to reload quicker? I don't get it.
Here's how it works for me. I kill and retrieve 15 doves as quickly as possible. I then sit back on my stool, light a good cigar, and the balance of the afternoon enjoy the show of everyone else's shooting. I can't tell of the hours I have spent just quietly sitting and watching the birds AFTER my bag has been filled, and the birds have been iced down. I get great delight out of just watching ducks or doves fly in and feed, and spend many hours each winter scouting and just watching them. But, when I take that gun to the field it is not to feel the comforting weight of it across my arm. It is to bring a limit of birds home to the table.
To each his own. Ejectors is my own.
SRH
