doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Ever have a sxs that seems to fit perfect

But you can't shoot consistently? I have a new double and the only flaw is it is butt heavy and I am wondering if that is enough to cause so many misses

Pattern it as in getting it fitted on a plate. You may discover it is not shooting where you think it is. There are times a gun which otherwise is perfectly dimensioned turns out to have chokes off center and do not throw the patterns true.

Nitrah,
Michael has given you great advice. I would like to add that it's possible that because of the gun's balance point, it's handling too fast. I shoot neutrally balanced guns well due to muscle memory of using them. If you are accustomed to forward balanced guns, try slowing things down.
Karl

I have a Remington FE that I wanted to use for trap doubles shooting. The left barrel was right on the money, the right barrel I couldn't hit with at all.
When I patterned on a steel board I found that it was 1/2 the pattern to the right. After some judicious examinations we found that sometime earlier in the guns history someone had really botched some choke modifications causing a mis-shaped choke. This pissed me off pretty good, and I started figuring options (beside hard liquor)!
One of the double gun guys here (Ghostrider) suggested that I send the gun to Skeet's and let Dean check it out. He tuned, re-choked and moved the impact point to the center. He was able to maintain enough choke for a great first shot for my style of doubles.
But then the stock broke, my FE is back in rehab getting a duplicated straight grip monte carlo. I hope to shoot the FE at the Pennsylvania State Shoot in June, in competition and Nostalgia shoots.

It's probably too short, with too much drop at face, causing you to teeter-totter it during the mount.

Pretty common.

Fit is nearly identical to other guns I shoot well. I have patterned and both barrels are ok. It isn't too short and drop at face it good. I will try the slow down advice and recheck patterns. I appreciate advice

Second thought would be try different ammo, size shot and so on.

Trade it in on something. Life's too short...Geo

It is possible to adjust a butt heavy gun by drilling out the stock and or changing a hard rubber Buttplates for a microfiber lightweight pad.

How butt heavy is it? If just a few ounces you could have a bit of wood removed from the butt to rebalance the gun. Quick way to check it is use a rare earth magnet and weight on the barrels to balance it at a heavier weight. Then see if it shoots better. I�ve seen guns with weight added to the for end or even to the barrel to get the balance right as a permanent fix. Drilling out the butt stock has limits for the weight you can reduce. Much past a few ounces might be the limit.