Funniest thing I ever saw years ago was a guy at the World Skeet Shoot win the 410 event with a Mossberg 500. The other competitors wouldn’t even shake his hand. Serves them right, competitive shooters, particularly skeet and trap shooters, treat new-comers like they have an advanced case of pneumonia and in doing so hurt the sport by keeping new-comers away.
I'm guessing his problem wasn't that he just needed 8 more inches of barrel.Had a member shoot a round with his Norinco 97 riot 18" on Sunday. He got 7/25.
Add in cylinder bore and promo shells to an 80% shooter, yes.I'm guessing his problem wasn't that he just needed 8 more inches of barrel.
Funniest thing I ever saw years ago was a guy at the World Skeet Shoot win the 410 event with a Mossberg 500. The other competitors wouldn’t even shake his hand. Serves them right, competitive shooters, particularly skeet and trap shooters, treat new-comers like they have an advanced case of pneumonia and in doing so hurt the sport by keeping new-comers away.
And of mine; everyone always gets a warm welcome and an invite to shootThis is the exact opposite of my experience.
Took my 12 and 20 target guns to the skeet range the other day - 95 degrees and 105 heat index. left my typical sporting chokes of LM/M in both. I am NOT a skeet shooter - will shoot it when nothing else is available, so no Wayne Mayes here.After 6 rounds in that heat, I had enough; worst score was a 22 (missed both at station 8) using my 12. It just got to be too much in the heat. BTW, I shoot 3/4oz reloads in both; those 28 gauge level shells in a 7.5 and almost 9# gun make shooting fun. Point is, choke doesn't matter as much as gun fit, mental focus and muscle memory in skeet.I use a cylinder choke tube in my 12 gauge when I shoot skeet, 7/8oz superlite handloads. Pattern density is very even at skeet range distances. Targets break with authority if I do my part. Most all my other guns that are not fixed choke have skeet choke restrictions, which is only a few thousands choke. My average is about 96% on the skeet range. Most of the time it's not the gun, but the shooter behind the gun.
Then he's doing it wrong; you don't move the gun until you see the bird, because if the gun is moving, there is a very good probability it it moving the wrong way, and it is slower to recover from that than waiting for the bird. Unless, of course, the trap is an older model without an interrupter, then it is possible to 'read the trap'. People doing so are the reason they put interrupters on traps in the first place.a friend and i shoot a few rounds of trap with IC chokes in 12ga, my best at the 16 yard line is 23, but ryan who is 27 and fast as sin has shot 25,s and brakes them just about right out of the house. his gun is moving as he says pull. he shoots a cz o/u .410 for fun at sporting clays with 2.5" shells loaded with #8 shot and shoots in the mid 30,s most of the time.