Im sorry, Pericles.

The other week I heard a good bit of gunfire in the afternoon. Later on, I drove into New Holland and saw a couple of pick-ups, one with an enclosed white trailer, in the field just north of Route 23, at the boundary line between East Earl & Earl Townships. The men seemed to be loading their harvest into the trucks, as the field was littered with a couple dozen grey lumps.

If it's not a crime to shoot these birds out of the sky, well it should be. And you know they must've been shooting up in the air a couple hundred yards from people's homes. And not even a quarter mile from the playing fields at the high school. So where does the ammo come down? Is it always harmless as it returns to earth?

Sport? I don't think so. Seemed like abuse. I don't want to hear gunfire from my back yard.

It's not likely that anyone could be seriously injured by shotgun pellets falling from the sky. I've been rained on by pellets several times while hunting small game, when I hunted years ago.

If you're in the direct line of fire, that's different.

But there are laws that govern how close you can hunt to buildings.

This article is not about the legal harvesting of geese. it is about poaching and wanton waste. Lets stay on task.

Yet someone in another thread about this matter (think there are about 3 circulating now) went into a spheel how much 'damage' snowgeese did to crops and how hunters ARE in fact allowed to shoot quite many?

Im wondering if this is really a hunter with a license who merely is not taking what is shot.