Originally Posted by
Brad C.
JW,
The 100 in the 10" has been around along time now and it's the standard rule that the NWTF goes by to know exactly what your lethal range is from any gun, choke and load. Go look it up. This is't something that I or anyone else made up. And not trying to argue with you for I know you are one of the bosses here, but thinking you know your gun and knowing you truly know your gun are 2 different persectives altogether. One is subjective the other is objective. You can either choose to live by it or not when patterning your gun, but it is what it is. I go by it for I know it's very accurate and true.
+1 Brad The concept has been around about as many decades as our NWTF has been! I specifically refer to this paragraph in the NWTF link, as it's exactly what you've been stating and not something that you have come up with on your own:
Why 40 yards?
We pattern our turkey guns out to 40 yards because that is the maximum distance promoted by the Turkey Hunting Safety Task Force as the proper range to ethically and cleanly kill a turkey with a shotgun