Constraints don't justify disregarding ethics. I hunt multiple states after multiple species every year and I have never felt the need to launch a hail mary so I don't go home empty handed. I have had unfilled tags, including elk. Hell, I almost didn't fill a bighorn tag but managed one last quick trip after I said I was done and got one. I went home empty handed because I wasn't offered a shot I considered good to take on the first trip.


If you absolutely have to kill something when you go hunting, maybe you need to reconsider why you are going hunting, no offense to you Sir.

Who said anything about disregarding ethics?

It's not unethical to use a stout cartridge/bullet combo to broaden your options on shots

This has been a good read:).

I shoot Raccoons all the time under my feeder at 136 yds with a subsonic 22. I don't know the exact bullet drop or speed, but my scope is maxed out at the vertical setting. If you hit them in the vitals, they drop just like they would at 20 yds.