Pete, you might be right about 12 ga vs 10 ga. I don't hunt waterfoul with a 10 ga tho you may be changing my mind. 12 ga, 10 ga you still need to put the gun on target.
I respect your view, but it has nothing to do with fair chase. When I started turkey hunting years ago you'd be lucky to put 40 pellets in a pie plate at 40 yds. Now I can put 120 pellets at 60 yds due to advances in guns and ammo. Is it unfair? No, those rascals still out fox me! The fairness is in calling them in if you're so inclined. Where I come from you can turkey hunt with a rifle. What is fairer? Calling them in and shooting them with a 60 yard shotgun or sitting in a stand with a 300 yard rifle? They're not in a cage and there is a bag limit.
What's unfair is steel shot! All poor shots like me do is wound ducks! But that's a whole another story. I understand the problem with lead and I have become somewhat politically correct.
The argument that the range with a 8 ga is 90 yards is weak in light of the fact they are hard to hit at 40 yards. How much do you lead them at 90 yds? I probably couldn't even see them at that distance! Surely steel shot, if it could be shot from a 8 ga, would never, ever go 90 yards. I'm not sure lead would be effective at that range but I really have no idea.
It would be a interesting study to see what the real effect would be. My guess is not much in the real world sitting in a blind or up against a tree.
Chris, maybe you and I are starting a movement!
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