doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Shooting left or right of center?

The first question is do you want the gun to fit you or not?
If so have it fit. If you want to retain the original integrity of the gun then the answer is no.
Pretty simple to me.

Close your eyes. Mount gun. Open eyes. Are front and midbead or front bead and centerline of rib (rib extension, depression between fences, etc) in transverse alignment? No. Incline head over comb or away from until they are. Given the one you're missing, I'd bet you have to incline your face over the comb. Tell your neck muscles to remember this cocky attitude. Assume the position. Close eyes. Mount gun. Are the useful lateral centerpoints aligned? Do it again. Go to skeet range. Do it again. Load gun on station. Forget everything but that neck position. Don't look at the beads. Shoot. A useful muscular adaptation and one which G. T. Garwood thought most American shooters resorted to with neutral stocks and pupils which aren't usually precisely in a plumb relationship with those little piggy cheeks.

jack

Well Captain, I bought an Ugartechea upland gun. Straight stock, 16ga. of course, dt, 6.5 lbs, etc. I wanted an upland gun in near 100% condition, but my budget was under $1500, so I had to go the new Uggie route. Also, if I dropped it on a rock chukar hunting, I wouldn't have to worry about its resale value, rarity, etc. etc. It's actually a strikingly pretty gun.

It fits me fine, everything lines up the way it should with my eyes closed, etc. I do think, and the previous posts here seem to confirm this, that me missing some crossing shots has more to do with me than the gun. I don't shoot skeet that often, I shoot low gun because I'm a bird hunter, and my average score reflects that at between 16-20, so I shouldn't expect that buying a new gun would somehow miraculously make me break 25 straight. For some reason though, when a bird with feathers gets up in front of me, I don't tend to miss very often. Maybe if clay birds were the size of chukars or quail, my scores would go up a bunch

I think I'll just shoot it a while and see how it goes before I go to plan B.

You cracked me up with that Hitlery Clinton comment, Jim. But marklart, I would take joe's advice. Surely you don't want to bend the stock or shave some wood off after shooting it for only one day. It sounds like you are getting your body in a bind or stopping your gun. If you shot that many times in a row, the gun could be moving on your shoulder. I was watching Ed Pretchell from Browning today and he says to shoot the same way you said you did on another post. Swing through the bird and as soon as you cover the bird, pull the trigger and don't stop your gun. That is the same way that Tom Knapp and Steve Smith say to do it also. They guarantee you'll break the bird. Good luck.

Marklart, how is it choked?

I am thinking that if you were able to tell it is shooting left at 35 yds. it is surely very tight.

JC