This is a crossbow forum and the thread was about crossbows. It's not like we have subvenues for every possible aspect and my initial post made it clear that I WAS not entertaining 110 yard shots but if I want to see unethical shots with a vert bow all I have to do is turn on the idiot box and watch those guys fling 50 yard arrows.
Quite true, Planter. Your post was about shooting at TARGETS and had absolutely nothing to do with hunting. There is NO maximum ethical shooting limit for TARGET shooting.
I dunno... Maybe I'm wrong to expect the average person to have the intellectual capacity to be able to divine the difference between TARGET archery and HUNTING archery. Even I can do that and I'm certainly not a Mensa candidate. In a nutshell:
Target archery is seeing how far you can get from a target and still hit it. Bowhunting is the art of getting close enough that you can't miss.
It don't get no simpler than that!
What's really disappointing to me is how some folks feel we have to engage in subterfuge and deceit, to deny the one in order to advance the other. "Don't let the whole world know what you're doing." That just goes completely against my sense of rightness.
And I owe you an apology for hijacking your thread. I'm sorry.