I liked the tip on turning around to take an outbound over head shot instead of a direct incoming shot. Makes me think other shot that are low percentage could be turned into high percentage shots if a little patience was applied.
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"If money can fix it, it ain't broke" The great theologian and my crow hunting partner AW.
"If the gun does'nt fit, you are NOT going to shoot it well"
It seems that these words fall on deaf ears.
I hate to berate the country-club shooters whom buy the big B shotgun names, i.e. Benelli, Browning, Beretta, just because they want to be closely identified with their peer- pressure buddies. They have a bad habit of looking narrowly at their shotgun as a trademark, that relegates them into the same insecure group as their shooting cohorts. In other words, "We all have to be same" is their mindset. No one in the crowd would dare shoot any gun, except one of the big B guns. If someone shot an off-brand (?) gun, he might be considered an outcast, laughed at, and others in the crowd may turn their nose up at his gun, or him.
When I was in college, it was amazing how many students dressed almost exactly like a thousand other students. They wore the same brand of tennis shoe, and except for color, clothes were all alike, their book satchel looked like all others. Everyone was afraid, even petrified, of being different. I guess they got a secure feeling from being non-identifiable. Seems as though they were controlled by a communist government, a la the Chinese years ago, when all were told what to wear.
One of the greatest mistakes mankind makes, is not addresing alternatives to all daily life. After all, if all men liked the identical thing, there sure would be a lot of old maids.
I sold my last Beretta shotgun a few months ago. It did'nt fit as well as I wanted. It was a nice looking gun, very well made, excellent gas operating system, but it did'nt fit. If a big B gun fits you, then shoot it!
Many of us do shoot other brands of shotguns beside the big B guns. I certainly do, because "If the gun does'nt fit, you are NOT going to shoot it well".
Another very good point that I might add is "how well the shotgun fits you" will also be the result of how much recoil you receive everytime you shoot it. It is important to get the advise from very serious shooters so as to help yourself. For example, when I first started shooting with my crow hunting mentor "Boyd c Robeson" back in 1974 it was around the second or third season that this subject came up. I told him I wish I felt less recoil with both my model 12 Winchesters? He said "what you need Bob is to shoot a stock with less drop at the comb" I said so how do we do this? Boyd was a gunsmith but if he had too he was a pretty good stock man as well, he just didn't have time to do both. He built a butt stock for the one gun and I shot it for an entire season; at the end of the season I said "do the other gun" it made a difference that I could notice and I knew that I was most fortunate to have a friend like him who had the knowledge to really help me out. This is the type of guy you need to seek out for solid advise!
Bob A.
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Are you talking about soaking the stock in hot oil until it becomes limber? NH, I don't follow you when you say "they move a lot" what are you talking about ? Do you mean they will move a lot when the stock becomes limber? Boyd did have a tad more cast off with the new butt stock as compared to the one that came with the gun. It sure made a difference in felt recoil.
Bob A.
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Yes shotgun stocks can be bent to change drop and cast. Yes they heat the stocks up and bend them in a jig. I have had several done as many of the old doubleguns had too much drop. When I say some will move a lot, it depends on the wood, nice straight grain stocks usually bend well. My old Parker 10ga double was moved up 5/8" drop at the heel by bending. The gun points very naturally for me now. Cast off would be for a right handed shooter, a leftie would want cast on.
-- Edited by nhcrowshooter on Friday 17th of June 2011 12:17:24 AM
