Hunting to put food on the table, to feed a persons family is different than hunting for sport. Family comes first. But nobody is recording that. What they are recording, for "content", often leaves me wishing they took up golf or fishing. Game deserves a fair chance. It is wing shooting, not ambushing on the nest, limb or on the ground. If you can not hit a duck or goose in the air do not hunt. And glorifying swatting ducks on the water, is just wrong to me and the way I was brought up. I have never swatted a duck on the water, in my entire life, even as a kid. I have shot a few cripples on the water but that was only to humanly finish them off. These are grown men acting like shooting a sitting duck, requires some special skill.
Eightbore, I agree, Market hunters of the past are very much like the water-men that are still with us today. Fair chase does not enter into their business. And they were in the business of killing game to fill the market demand just like the buffalo hunters. They take, take as much as they are "allowed" and do nothing to invest the games future. They are not farming, where they invest, to improve the crop. They just harvest, harvest, harvest. There were no limits on market-hunters because in those times game was considered a bottomless resource. Just as oysters, clams, fish and crabs were. And now we have scraps that are left to us.
