Is there a difference shooting skeet with a side-by-side versus an over/under?

What kinda scores are you consistently shooting?

 

And how many rounds through that gun?

 

And just like that, Randy Wakeman shows up on THR.

 

I started shooting recreational skeet as a teen with my Dad's 28 gauge side by side that he grew up with. I did ok as a newby.

After being gainfully employed for a number of years, I took up skeet again, first with a Winchester Model 12 and then a Citori field grade. I'd drag out the old 28 gauge side by side once in a while and shoot about the same as with the other guns once I remembered to change triggers on doubles.

But bottom line, as I progressed in skeet along with a skeet grade Citori, it was not as easy to transition back to the side by side.

I've never shot a semi-auto at skeet. I do have a Beretta A400 Smurf gun that has not had a round through it yet. Some day, I'll give it a try.

P.S., I took my first pheasant with Dad's 28 gauge. A crossing shot with a lucky pellet to the head. I guess one always remembers their first success on the hunting field.

 

Winning the internet!!!

 

Getting a shotgun that fits you is more important the other factors.
You might look around for a old AYA Matador. A Baikal or a Browning Side by Side BSS.

 

Now now, if it was Randy, he'd be using a Remington semi of some sort...............

 

You'll like that smurf gun. I did add some Briley 2oz mag cap weights So the forward balance was more like my 32" O/U

 

George George, you do try my patience sometimes. It would be a Retay.

 

I know that, and just took skeet shooting up last year. Need much more practice.

 

If a lesson or three isn't possible, make friends with a few good shooters at your club and have them watch you shoot. I would also take the gun to the pattern board (if you haven't already) to see where it shoots in relation to where you're pointing. Skeet aren't hard to hit; the hard part is hitting all of them all of the time to get into the shoot-offs.

 

Lessons may be in the offing, it is me not the shotgun. The guy I shoot with is helping me, and he shot a round with my gun, 22 out of 25.

 

Well, it might fit him better, also.

 

Won't work for doubles and there are four pair in a round of skeet.