I went skeet shooting yesterday using a circa 1953 M12 in 20. Great fun if not exactly great results. We then shot some trap and for this I broke out my 10 lb SKB lefty target gun. Still fun but...very different, including results. Comparatively easy after the skeet session and for several reasons. The later M12 actually fits me fairly well, but even with a 28-inch tube, it was hard to swing through and steady for me at times. Now...I was having way-too much fun shucking it (it's been too-long!) which is a distraction, and the winds were fierce which made the high-tower birds really dance. Even my shooting partner was grumbling about it (& he's a past State Champion). But the abjectly striking difference for me was how well/over under target guns work on clay targets....they simply work better in that set of circumstances. A game gun, which in my estimation the sun rises and sets upon, seems so out- of-place on a clays course. It's too-light, it's too-short, it obscures the targets, it isn't choked right....it's simply not at home there. This is a huge reversal for me in so-many ways and one I would have never seen coming if I hadn't started shooting more clay targets and then with the appropriate type of gun. Am I alone here or am I the only thick-headed, slow-learner on this forum?
Last edited by Lloyd3; 02/26/23 07:38 PM.
