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Originally Posted by ward
The comment at the top of the column says observed hunters typical range. Like it or not, those are the distances hunters shoot at. If your gun and choke can achieve those patterns at those distances and you are able to hit the bird, it will die. I don’t take shots over 40 yards, but like you stated in one of your posts, other people do.
Do a little research on Roster, he did not build the chart from a few years of hunting waterfowl. Although people will do their best to poke holes in his data, he is more than just another Internet Expert.
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If you place pellets in the vitals, the birds will die. But at 65 yards, placing pellets in the vitals will require luck for most shooter/choke/load combinations. At that distance, for the average shooter, it is just as likely that the only pellets that hit the bird, will be in locations that result in the bird flying away wounded. I have seen too many birds fly away wounded, by people using Black Cloud, Blindside, and other high priced 3-1/2" loads, because the people doing the shooting either were shooting too far, or were not leading the birds enough. Attend a few DU or Delta Waterfowl sporting clays shoots, and you soon realize that the average hunter misses a lot of targets at 30-40 yards, let alone 65 yards.