You Don't Have to Aim a Shotgun Mythbusting VIDEO

[PTMCCAIN]

Any IDIOT can post what you just put on here. Congrats.

 

[Dogbite]

I hear the myth about not needing to aim a shotgun several times a day. Sometimes I will say something, but I hear it so often, I stay silent most of the time. Sometimes I will tell them that 00 buck across a room makes a "rat hole". All you have to do, is shoot some steel plates. You will quickly see that when you are 15 ft away, you can shoot one plate between two others and not hit the plates on the outside.

 

[oneounceload]

Don't have to aim, just go out and do some slug work and you will find out you do have to aim

Then you are using it like a rifle firing a single projectile at a stationary target - what are you hunting in NV with slugs? When I lived in Carson we used rifles for those situations and shotguns for clays, chukar, grouse and quail - and for those times, the shotguns were pointed, not aimed.

If you are sitting in a tree stand waiting for a deer to come to your food plot in a state where shotguns are mandatory, that is one thing, you are actually using a rifle more or less; otherwise if you aim, you miss

 

[JohnBT]

"Any IDIOT can post what you just put on here."

So you're saying you disagree with that point of view? What are you saying?

 

[JohnBT]

Nevermind, I figured it out after watching your video and reading the comments. Everybody is stupid except you.

John

 

[MCgunner]

http://www.shootwhereyoulook.com/

 

[Skribs]

MCGunner, that's what I'm trying to get at, I guess. Maybe I should revise my previous definitions:

Aim: Using at least two sight planes on the firearm to line up the shot with the front sight and the target.
Shotgunner's Point: Using the fit of the firearm (and possibly one sight plane) to line up the shot with where you're looking and the target.
Layman's Point: Using the fact that the muzzle is in the general direction of the target and the "fact" that shotguns spread and create a cone-of-death to hit the target.

Shotgunner's Point, for the idea of "you don't have to aim a shotgun" is aiming the shotgun. You know exactly where the pellets are going.

Layman's Point, for the idea of "you don't have to aim a shotgun, just point" is the pointing that we're talking about.

 

[Striker]

My 2 cents from a previous post:

What seems to be overlooked is that we are discussing using the same basic tool in two entirely different applications.

As I've said in previous posts, I'm all about shooting moving clays by putting the shot pattern where they are going to be, rather then where they are. (B class Trapper and A class Skeeter) I focus on the bird and swing the gun. But when shooting slugs, the shotgun is a de-facto rifle that requires aiming. I don't point a slug loaded shotgun, except at contact distances.

Again, same basic tool, but entirely different methods of utilization.

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Addendum: I also aim, not point when utilizing tight patterning 00 Buck.

As always, YMMV.

 

[PTMCCAIN]

Good discussion, for the most part, thanks guys. Appreciate it.

 

[Dave McCracken]

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