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Originally Posted by ClapperZapper
He said he shoots trap and skeet (generally pre-mount games), and rarely hits 50% with these guns.
He shoots left handed with right handed guns.

There has to be aiming error, and in-effective technique involved, not just gun fit.

While I don't doubt there are some issues on my end including aiming, I do have other English guns which I run high teens to low twenties shooting skeet.

I don't hunt, I'm not a collector and I get bored shooting the same gun every weekend. I shoot skeet for fun and to justify buying British shotguns. I'm pretty sure I've sorted out the issues with the Greener, it seems to like Fiocchi 1 oz #8 @1250 FPS. Those patterned much better than the Federal Top Gun. I think I've figured out the Mears, I need to get it higher in my shoulder. Hopefully that works, otherwise I'll probably sell the gun. And yes I know I should stick with just one gun.


I have become addicted to English hammered shotguns to the detriment of my wallet.
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I have had left eye dominance issues since I started shooting. At first Rather than trying to radically change a gun, we tried to change the dominance. The order of solutions follows:

1. White dot sticker in the middle left shooting glass lens, it helped some getting my Skeet in the upper teens and lower twenties. (Other variations included inking the mark on with a felt marker, using vaseline or suntan lotion to grease the lens.

2. 20 years later I was going for contacts after getting bifocals, the recommended solution was left eye reading, right eye distant, this seemed about the same in effect as the blurred eye approach. I basically blundered into this one, but it worked ok.

3. After a gun fitting I had a gun massively bent in cast (3/4 in), This resulted in deadly field shooting, though not a great clays difference, save near targets. From then on I started to focus on guns with extreme cast as I seem to shoot them better.

4. I purchased a Churchill with over 1 in cast at comb, still wearing the bifucal contact set up, deadly successful in the field averaging over 75%, but only the lower 20’s in skeet, finally ran a 25 straight one time.

5. The future, who knows, but one day when a true crossover stock purchased from Holts finally gets here to test

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Glad it worked out for you.

I work in Niantic occasionally.
Any places near there to shoot?


Out there doing it best I can.
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