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To: Ish who wrote (181746)	2/14/2006 2:20:24 PM
From: faqsnlojiks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wouldn't say 40yds was long-shooting (or, skyscraping, to use the more popular term). Especially back in the day when you could use lead. Lead has much greater dropping power than steel. But with #8shot on a quail, 40yds is getting to the outer limits of effective kill range. :-)

To: Ish who wrote (181746)	2/14/2006 3:40:58 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

In Connecticut we went after duck with a full bore 12, #4(lead) shot, and dropped them at ranges between 40 an 60 yards. Closer in and the pattern was too tight making it difficult. Friends of mine said that they had hit geese further out using BBs. I never spotted a goose so never found out if I could hit them. Nor did I see the shot that they had taken. At 40 yards the number of #4 pellets hitting the duck is around 10-15, at 60 yards about 6-10. Further out and you have to be lucky. The goose is bigger but the shock level of the pellets is reduced since fewer hit the bird, BBs are bigger than #4s and therefore there are fewer of them in a load. Didn't realize that lead BBs were still legal.