I'm sick of seeing "effective range" used to claim "absurd!" Yes. If you want your pellets to go inside of a goose and harm it, then your birdshot is only effe

I'm sick of seeing "effective range" used to claim "absurd!" Yes. If you want your pellets to go inside of a goose and harm it, then your birdshot is only effective at about 40 yards. Further than that, you won't be bringing a bird down, because the birdshot isn't hitting with enough force anymore. But you aren't shooting a bird. You're shooting a drone. Some birdshot hitting and damaging the propeller is enough to bring the drone down. It doesn't need to penetrate and because it doesn't need to penetrate, it doesn't need to be within effective range.