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Do what you describe, Buzz, and shoot it as much as you can. Muscle memory is an amazing thing, and eventually, within a few shots, that memory will take over and you'll shoot it well I'll bet. I shoot an array of different guns for subguage events, and do fairly well. It helps if you can shoot a few targets with the gun before you start on the scoring targets. Works for me.


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Is balancing a shotgun important in trap/skeet shooting? I've never heard of a shotgun hunter speak of it.

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Originally Posted by KenA
Is balancing a shotgun important in trap/skeet shooting? I've never heard of a shotgun hunter speak of it.

Just trying to learn something new.

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Absolutely imho!!! …..and for sporting clays and hunting guns too.


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A lot of hunters go with "feel", which is hard to measure. And as with the various clay target games, the "feel" you want from a field gun can vary depending on what and how you hunt. Waterfowl hunters like heavier guns with longer barrels. Grouse and woodcock hunters prefer lighter guns with barrels no longer than 28", with some liking even shorter barrels.

Preferences also seem to change. Mostly as a result of sporting clays (where barrels as long as 34" are used), the longer barrel trend seems to have crept into other games . . . like skeet. When I first started shooting skeet, now almost 50 years ago, 26" barrels were extremely popular. Not so much any more. At least not with those who are serious competitors.

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Originally Posted by L.Brown
A lot of hunters go with "feel", which is hard to measure.

Not hard to measure at all. Just take a gun that has that "feel" to Don Amos and he will give you a set of numbers forthwith that can be duplicated in another gun to make it have the same "feel". There is no nebulous feeling that is something magical, or unexplainable. It can be measured in several different ways, and again, duplicated.


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