75 yds
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
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