My father just recently gave me a Beretta 391 Trap that's seen all of maybe 200 rounds since new. I've been debating whether or not I want to make this my primary gun, but figure in any case it's a big step up from my current (well used) Rem 11-87 so why not give it a go?
Took a quick shot at a makeshift patterning board this afternoon with the full choke and a target/trap shell. I paced off the distance to the tune of 16 yards (in reality somewhere between 15-20).
The below pattern is what I got. For aim I covered the bottom half of the red bull with the front bead, so I guess you can imagine the top of the bead cutting the bull in half. From this basis it looks like the pattern I got is something like 90/10? Looks more or less well centered left/right but that seems too high for clays?
I did notice right off the bat the beads don't stack like my 11-87...there's a clear gap/rib visible between them. A lot of folks on the net say this doesn't matter but from what I'm seeing the gun is certainly shooting high?
I toyed with the shims and buttpads before shooting, eventually settling on the thinner pad and the 45-DX shim combo (came to me with the thicker buttpad and the 40-DX shims).
So I dunno, what do you guys think?
Took a quick shot at a makeshift patterning board this afternoon with the full choke and a target/trap shell. I paced off the distance to the tune of 16 yards (in reality somewhere between 15-20).
The below pattern is what I got. For aim I covered the bottom half of the red bull with the front bead, so I guess you can imagine the top of the bead cutting the bull in half. From this basis it looks like the pattern I got is something like 90/10? Looks more or less well centered left/right but that seems too high for clays?
I did notice right off the bat the beads don't stack like my 11-87...there's a clear gap/rib visible between them. A lot of folks on the net say this doesn't matter but from what I'm seeing the gun is certainly shooting high?
I toyed with the shims and buttpads before shooting, eventually settling on the thinner pad and the 45-DX shim combo (came to me with the thicker buttpad and the 40-DX shims).
So I dunno, what do you guys think?