for discussion

[John Farrell, Charter Member #33]

IF one can drive a pellet, or pellets, into a vital area at 100 yards game can be taken, I suppose. Watching Annie Oakley events at my gun club from time to time it is common to see how often the target gets to the 4th or 5th gun before it is sometimes broken. Not saying it had not been hit by pellets from earlier guns before it broke. I agree the deed could be done at 100 yards, but at what cost to the population of game birds punctured with wounding pellets and never harvested.

Please don't take 100 yard shots at game birds on my hunting spots with any bore shotgun.

[Berkley Stephens]

My son and I were goose hunting on the eastern shore of Maryland about 1990 and he crippled a goose from a field blind. We killed a couple of other geese at the same time and by the time we got around to the cripple(we didn,t have a dog), he had a real head start. We chased him for about 100 yards before I stopped and pointed my 10ga BPS with 3 1/2 in "t" shot with a Imp cyl. choke and fired. The load cut off the gooses' head and sent it about 12 ft beyond the body which did not move. We walked it off and it was 75 yards.
I was just trying to get one shot in him to slow him down. I would never shoot a goose over 40 yds flying, but I never was worried about a cripple getting away if I could see him. I guess the steel shot all stuck together.
Well, that's my long killing story Berk