[tahunua001]

even though I do not think buck shot is unethical, I will take this.
birds a very frail creatures. they have very light bone and muscular structures to allow for flight, even birds like turkeys with limited flight capability. all it really takes is one or two pellets to hit a bird to kill it and if the pellet doesn't the hard fall will.

deer are a different story. a pellet in the rear, another in the leg and one through a lung won't necessarily kill it, even over a prolonged period of time. it will weaken the animal and force it to live with a handicap for the rest of it's life or it could just force the animal to die a slow death. this is why I do not hunt with buckshot. not because I think it's unethical but because I don't like the idea of having to track a wounded deer for miles because none of the shot hit a vital organ.