Not to bring up any sore subjects , but it was mentioned , so I will let you all know I never did have any rules on long shots here till about a year ago , when I noticed it was getting a bit out of control on the forum -
The long standing acceptable industry standard for responsible turkey shooting is 40 yards ,and most people are fine with that , it doesn't offend anyone , and causes no issues ever - The official sanctioned NWTF shoots are at 40 yards , that contest was designed to promote more ethical and clean kills , and the same goes for all our shotguns forums , as responsible hunters we want to encourage each other to cleanly kill their game, thats the purpose of the shotguns forums -you guys do a great job helping each other attain that goal - I dont know where to draw the line , 40 is the long standing standard, so there we have it - any further than that then keep it to PMs or out of plain sight and all should be good
I have no wish to be the longshot police of the forum - I am quite easy going , everyone has taken a shot {including me} paced it off , and was wrong about the yardage , we are humans { not cyborgs with rangefinders built into in our heads}we make errors , we also here take time and effort to have some gear that will compensate have we ever do our human thing -
--Shannon
