Quote Originally Posted by oafpatroll View Post
My wingshooting mates and I have discussed this at length before and the consensus we reached was that from the farmers point of view the birds being scared away was pretty much first prize and that the total number killed on a day was largely irrelevant. That because an absent, or moving, bird can't eat and that even if we shot a 1000 birds on a farm in a day it would represent a tiny fraction of the remaining flock. The win for them is that there is a day where less eating happens.
True. Same for geese