Seems like this thread has deviated away from the question a bit. The question was will a shotgun kill a bird at 100yds, not should we be trying to kill birds at 100 yds. Personal experience need not enter into the argument. The ballistics of the pellets is all that is needed. I don't have a chart in front of me but every one I've seen shows the maximum distance a shot load will travel, given the optimum elevation angle to be what? 250 - 400 yds or something like that. Clearly, with a lucky pellet of size 2-4 that hits in the right spot, a shotgun will kill a bird at 100 yds. I killed a pheasant at 70 yds with a single #7-1/2 pellet once, and it was a body hit nowhere near the head, so 100yds doesn't seem a reach to me at all with larger pellets.
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