Here's one for you. You are sitting quietly in the woods, listening to someone 200-300 yards away making a racket (absolute racket) with a game call. 10 minutes later, the game you are hunting comes tearing through the woods and runs right past you, away from the sound of the racket.
Do you believe it's ethical to shoot it on its way by?
Would it make a difference who was doing the calling? Would you feel bad if it were some guy? what about a young new hunter? What if it were a father-son team? And there you are off killing the game they were (poorly) trying to pursue....
What do you say? fair game, or let him run away and let the other hunters chase him off even farther away?
Technically, this is a hypothetical question. Technically. Hypothetically, I technically did not shoot. Now I am questioning if I missed out on meat in the freezer.