Be like Mike! I shoot low gun for skeet and like Mike, I "straiten the shot" at high 2 and low 6. I admire those who can short stroke these two but most who can are shooting mounted or butt loose in the pocket and comb just barely below the cheek before the pull. 3&4 I can short stroke high and low before the stake with a slight shift to face the shot on the low, but at 5 I tend to either just kill the high with a snap intercept which ain't hardly fair or track over onto the right side of the field. Low 5, I'm always behind and swinging thru to straiten it much the same as I do at low 6. I have never been conscious of swinging up thru 7 low altho I am very conscious of doing exactly that at trap straitaways. I don't fool around at 8, am early and on, but I think I need lessons or a new right eye at low 5 and 6. I love it when the wind blows and they slide, rise, or hop. Depressing the muzzle adequately going to the left on a grass cutter is hard for me but have no trouble going to right. Low gun skeet is great practice for a gun mount from a lot of positions from international to straitup one-hand carry, whatever the efficacy of insertion in front and short stroke on feathered friends, but I don't think the American "face-the-shot" bit on a concrete pad helps much for field shooting. Sunday last, I shot skeet with my "new" Merkel 200e with PC post spreaders, the "Murphy modification" and a full 1 1/8oz. Darn thing is 42 and 48 points of constriction; 3 squads, high 21. Incineration effect was so pronounced I didn't even get smoke. Fellow shooter observed that he thought I incinerated only half of one flower pot and left the other half as one big piece (which I unfortunately couldn't shoot as it was a single and an empty top tube as I thought I'd give myself a little bit of a chance). Got to get chokes opened somehow but I don't think it can be thinwalls as the ID is .719 both barrels and the OD of tubes consequently is struck to only .798". I know Briley "wants a look" after which they'll decline, so I think the "tubing" will probably go to Orlen for a reaming. Hope no one minds me piggybacking the question of whether there might be a reason to hedge one side of the other of a nominal constriction on barrels with these tight bores? I can't afford "ream 'n shoot" tactics! I think I'd like to keep something like light mod in one barrel for 16yd (doesn't matter too much which one as I like going from rear to front trigger about as well as the other way despite the long semi-pistol which feels about like a strait hand stock) and useful old IC in the remaining. So I'll probably end with another middle-of-the-roader. Any opinions, advice? I don't hope to shoot geese or pheasants a county over.
jack
PS: To get back on track, at 6lb10oz, It sure ain't whipppy but bit like all property of Baby Bear. . .juuuuust rite!! And one of them amazin off-the-rack fits.
Last edited by rabbit; 06/30/09 07:16 PM.
