Need a good skeet/trap shotgun
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OK....somewhat serious question....I have now bought a G Force filthy pheasant on Palmetto state Armory. Paid $299 for it. I have always wanted a silver pigeon, but I honestly don't know what it could do the this $299 shotgun doesn't
Guess this is why I usually never post videos. First, There are two guys in the "weeds", one of them was our guide, the safety first guy, Not that I needed him, been doing this for longer that most people alive on this planet. The other one was my lifetime friend, died last year at 71.
The second shot you hear came from him not me. The bird was already dead and then some, turned into a big joke afterwards (shooting a dead bird on the wing). pretty much inedible.
And that is why videos are so deceiving. I seldom post them. You weren't there always applies to videos, different fields of view.... What you see on a video is rarely what you see in real life.
First, they were not in the corn (weeds). They were on the other side of the corn.
Then, we were only about 25 feet apart, that's wide angle lenses for you. Then, You can see me move towards the left, more than parallel with them to be at an angle more than 180 degrees from each other so they are now slightly behind me, so even more insurance. Then I picked a spot for the shot that was even further from them. This all done on autopilot. Do this long enough and it's second nature.
Look at when I take the first shot. It's more than 60 degrees away from them and only like 25 feet away them as well. After so many years hunting over dogs you do this instinctively. Don't even have to think about.
Safety is ALWAYS the primary consideration. An if you fuck that up you never hunt with a guide again! And this was/is the best quail guide in FL.
Do you hunt Birds?
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Ok....that makes sense. The fit and finish isn't great on mine either....but still has been great for sporting clays
Dog, maybe. But bird and shot were at head height and seems ok to me.
Just got back from GA quail hunting. My buddy Todd and I got 89 birds in three each 3hour half day hunts and we didn’t even work hard at it.
My buddy is a champion shooter so part of it was I shot better than my average. Mid-60’s, blue bird sky, great dogs, and a guide who is actually one of our good friends (and a true South Georgia boy lol).
Couple of years ago I treated myself to a late retirement present…a K-20 w 30” Parcours lighter weight barrels. LOVE that shotgun. Perfect for upland.
Been down to GA twice this year and will be three times next season. If I ever hit the PowerBall, I’ll be there all season. Haha.
Thanks for posting the vid. Hard to see on the phone but was that a single ir did you score a double w the two shots (by the by, I named myself Two Shot cause I’m death w the second shot…not so much the first one! Haha).
Cheers
Gotta love to be out on those blue bird days!
Congrats on the Kreigoff !!! Top, top of the line. No many are made better than that. I've shot them and love how they handle.
Shot was higher than head shot, about 20 feet over the dogs, which were closer to me than the bird, videos tend to do that. The second shot was my best friend on the other side of the corn and he destroyed the bird - inedible. I lent him my Sporting Clays 12 gauge for the hunt. He was not having a good day
. Low man of the day on the total birds.
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Perazzi if you can afford 1. i have no idea about current new/used pricing. i would say that a used trap gun is likely to have big rounds thru it. mine had 10Kish +on it over about 3-4 years. many guys at my club shot much more than i did.
Browning 425 Golden Clays. Silver Pigeon is runs well. I'm thinking A300 patrol for home defense. Hey, it's a 12yo thread so why not.
I agree with that to a point. Competed in Sporting Clays a while back. over 25 trophies shooting A class. Competing or practicing Sporting Clays takes 4 hours for one round, not counting travel. You have to do this, but there's a shortcut.
So, middle of the week I,d go to our local skeet/trap range, a 25-minute ride. I shot 1 round of Trap, and 2-3 rounds of Skeet in starting around 4:30-5 PM. I was home just after sunset.
That's 75-100 rounds in the middle of the week! And, the key to being really good at shooting clays came to me after a 1/2 hour paid lesson while already winning. The instructor told me: "Your form and swing are really good, your problem is that you can't stop thinking!"
With shotguns it's form, smooth swing and after a lot of good practice, your body knows exactly what to do and your subconscious can take over. It's automatic. The only thing that is not on auto is your feet position in expectation of where you are going to break the shot. Eye hand coordination is a natural thing. Your body does that automatically. When you have the fundamentals down, Don't think, and you don't miss
Fundamentals come from a Skeet range, birds are perfectly predicable, you can practice on your fundamentals there, and learn to not to think!
Here's a video of me shooting quail over dogs with my 28 gauge, It was 22 degrees that morning and windy hence the clothing. You can see how I prepare my stance anticipating the shot and where I'm going to break it, comes natural. I bagged 23 birds that day, and did not miss a single shot, including lots of doubles.
That was a very long winded way to say you don't have a sporting course close.
My sporting course is behind my skeet range, 5 minutes from my house. It takes about 2 hours to walk the 14 stations as we have the space and terrain to shoot out instead of in, so we don't need a ton of room between stands.
And nothing but live birds or sporting will teach you how to hit a bird coming at you, falling fast, rising fast, or a rabbit. Add in the varying speeds and it's highly entertaining.
The boring thing about skeet and trap is they're all crossing or going away. You get good building that repetition of the same targets. That's the game.
I never hit more wild birds when I shot trap and skeet. I never miss now with thousands of rounds at the sporting range. We primarily hunt pheasants and Hungarian partridge. Sometimes ducks or geese.
Some of the finest practice I ever had was an Argentina dove hunt. Shot almost 5k rounds in a week, and over 3000 birds.
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