RE: Longest distance to shoot at turkey
I am sure people will disagree with me, but growing up and being a duck hunter as the first species I ever hunted, it has been engrained in my mind that 40 yards is about as far as you should shoot a shotgun for a clean killing shot. Of course you can shoot something farther but at what point is it ethical or not ethical. My feeling is anything beyond 40 yards is starting to get into that iffy area of killing power. Now I have read threads of people saying they can blow a head off at 65 yards. I still don't believe that is an ethical shot. Just my opinion. I have missed turkeys that are 50 to 55 yards out, I didn't think they were that far until I paced it out afterwards. I have range finder now, an I know exactly how far away my decoys are. I usually put them pretty close to me anyway. I hunt out of a ground blind in open fields so I don't worry about being snuck up on. It's harder to judge distance in an open field than amongst trees.