Yes, sorry, I should have been more clear. For example, floating with the
current in non-motored boat is a legal and popular way to duck hunt.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Charles Nicholson wrote:
Jump-shooting ducks from a moving boat is legal as long as the boat is not=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================
moving under engine power ("underway") at the time the shots are fired.
Chuck Nicholson
Norris, TN
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:12 PM, <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jump-shooting ducks from a moving boat like you seem to be describing is
actually illegal, much like spot-lighting or herding deer.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Ron Hoff wrote:
TN-birders,birding from Louisville Point Park to the Ish Creek embayment in Blount
Dollyann & I were out with a couple of friends today doing a bit of
Co., around 10 am. We spotted a Ross?s Goose at Hitch pond along Lowe?s
Ferry Rd. (35.81621, ?84.11617). It was hanging around with some domestic
ducks behind the house there.
Pied-billed Grebes at the small finger of the embayment near Lowe?s Ferry
We got to the Ish Creek embayment and at first only found nearly 90
Rd., and virtually nothing else was around except a few gulls. We drove a
bit further until we came to Marcia Davis?s new home (it?s gorgeous!). We
saw Marcia outside her place and drove into her driveway to say hello. She
was kind enough to take us on a quick tour around her lovely grounds. While
we were walking around we heard some shotgun blasts and Marcia said some
local hunters were hunting ducks on the embayment. Today was the last day
of duck hunting season in Tennessee.
john boat. Eventually they both got together into the boat and were boating
We saw that the hunters were two guys, one on the shore and one in a
around the embayment looking for ducks with binoculars and shooting at
them. We didn?t see any ducks to shoot at until we finally saw two birds
flying away from the hunters. It turns out they were both White-winged
Scoters. We eventually saw one other bird and it turned out to also be a
White-winged Scoter but it didn?t flush when the other 2 birds did. We
thought the hunters had wounded it and every time the hunters got close to
it, the scoter dove under the water instead of flying. We finished our
visit with Marcia and decided to check the Ish Creek boat launch for gulls
or anything else there.
the way of birds, but did see the 2 hunters, who had pulled their boat out
When we got to the Ish Creek boat ramp, we didn?t see anything else in
onto a trailer and were getting ready to leave. As we drove past them, I
saw 2 White-winged Scoter carcasses they were putting into their truck.
the population of what you are hunting can withstand it. But how ?sporting?
Strictly my opinion: by and large I am not against hunting, as long as
is it when you have a fairly confined area and you run around the area with
a fast boat and track down the only waterfowl in the area until you
slaughter them? Shooting ducks in a barrel hardly seems ?sporting? to me.
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Clinton, TN
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