That doesn't stop many morons from shooting at movement rather than identifying their target.
When I started deer hunting at the age of 14 (the legal age for deer hunting in Michigan) my Dad gave me a pair of binoculars and told me to use them and never even raise my rifle until I knew for certain the thing I was looking at was a deer.
When my husband began learning to hunt with his Dad - at an even younger age than you - he was made to take a course and test, during which he was instructed to ‘never shoot across a road’.
One day, he was out with his father AND the instructor, and had a clear, easy shot on a beautiful buck - across a road.
A deserted country road - but it was a road, and husband refused to shoot.
Later, both grownups teased him.
I guess the ‘thrill of the hunt’ causes even rules-oriented people to....slip, now and then :-)
I’m glad they ‘walked out of the cornfield’, and that the shot guy is ‘stable’.