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Where you hold the forend controls the speed of your swing.

It's like an ice skater. When she wants to spin fast, she pulls her arms in, to slow down she extends her arms.

Same with a shotgun. Hold out with your front hand, the gun slows down.

Somebody 'splain to me why you would shoot a short barreled gun for the supposed lightning quick dynamics and then handle it with your arm straight out.

Agree "in spades" Stan. Of my side-by-sides, the 2 with 28" barrels are a 12 gauge M21 and a 20 gauge Sterlingworth. The rest have 30" barrels, the one I had with 32" barrels is the 3E 12 bore Smith now residing in your gun safe. For some strange reason, 30" M&F choked side-by-sides (L.C. Smith" are my "go-to-guns" in 12 gauge- Do Not own a .410-- But, a 30" barreled SBT gun seems "stubby" in my hands, but a SBT with a 34" barrel is- "A whole 'nother ball game". My shooting style on feathered game: I'm a serious student of the lat, great wingshot: Nash Buckingham. 'Nuff said-- Foxie

If a bird is flying by, you can instinctively reach out and touch the beak with your left hand.
Same principle when playing with the light, fast, shotguns.

It's taught as a two handed exercise.
Left hand reaches forward, right hand brings the stock to cheek, head upright, shoulder rolls into the butt.

When the Grey's clear the hedge, it works fabuluously.

An auction house near me has one of its regular gun auctions about a month ago. I wasn't able to attend. A Churchill Premier XXV went for $1,750. From photos it looked like the barrels needed to be reblued but was otherwise in good shape. I'm not a big fan of short barrels but a Churchill Premier in decent shape for less than 2K seems like a steal to me. I'm kicking myself for not putting in a phone bid.

It's Greys, "greyman". Plural, not possessive.

Do you only shoot English game, or do you demean yourself to participate in American wing shooting at times? Just wondering, because it seems most of your examples cited are of driven, or other English types of, gamebird shooting.

SRH

I shoot a fair bit, Stan.
I think Karl would say I'm an adequate shot.
I have for decades. Though my interest rises and falls.
I don't do anything registered anymore.
As I am by nature curious, I took lessons at West Wycombe, as well as WLSS.
Churchill and Stansbury methods.

They have their places.
When I migrated to "higher birds", different techniques were better suited.

I'm a very fortunate guy. Excluding my decade long Cancer slog.

For more than 30 years I've managed my work life to enable me to pursue both upland and waterfowl species as much as I can afford.

Shooting grey partridges, whether in the upper plains, or hyper brooded and driven over hedges, demands a dynamic shooting style.

I surmise CZ knows more about the art of shooting flying than he�s been given credit in previous posts.

I like to shoot.
I travel to do it.
I don't accept always missing.
I try to fix that.

When this body is worn out, well, I will have tried.
Not much more to say on the matter, really.

We have much in common, CZ, in regards trying to constantly improve our shooting. Maybe not so much in our quarries. And, I am very glad that you survived the big "C", and live to tell about it.

Still don't understand the "greyman" deal, but .......... there's much in this realm I don't understand.

Best wishes to you, SRH

Thanks, Stan.

I have some "Summer ducks" nested right outside my living room window. The hen sneeks in and out at dawn and dusk.