Do you shoot them when they are puffed up or do let them deflate?

[Reloader]

You can kill them just the same when they are strutting.  They'll usually have to be nearly quartering to to get full contact with their head and neck, but it will kill them just as well as if they had their neck stretched out. The bad thing is getting pellets all in the breast.

[Ol'Mossy]

I know people who wait or cluck a time or two until they un-ruffle their feathers and I know people who shoot them at first sight.  What do you do?  Does it matter?

I had one get away from me once...never again..I wait until his head is up