Talk:long shot

ETYMOLOGY:

I've seen on other websites that the source of that expression would be that a shot from a long distance is very unlikely to succeed.

Could it rather be the same as the equivalent french expression, "faire long feu" (feu meaning both "fire" and "gunshot", as in the expression "faire feu", to shoot), which comes from old gunpowder weapons, where the gunpowder would sometimes fail to explode, only burning instead, which was called a "long feu", a long shot?