Mark, I also shoot low gun--except Station 8, unless someone challenges me to do it that way (in which case we'll sometimes do a double, facing the high house). The reason I don't shoot 8 low gun is because I look at skeet as practice for field shooting, and you would NEVER shoot an incomer that close. Look at the way a centered 8 disappears in a ball of smoke and you understand why. What you'd do, in the field, is pivot and take the bird going away. You can do that, pivoting away from the rest of the squad, if they don't mind--or you can shoot the high while facing the low and vice versa. Those are more typical of field shots than taking 8's while facing the respective houses.
So I'd suggest mounted gun, if you're going to shoot them the way everyone else does. Like you, I do a "goofy foot" on 8 as well, but only on the low. Went through a lot of missing on the low when a friend--also a right hander--pointed out that he shot it right foot forward. I have ever since. I don't do that on high 8, for whatever reason. Covering the bird actually gives you built-in lead as long as you continue to swing. It's a very quick swing so doesn't seem that way.
Last edited by L. Brown; 12/20/12 10:43 AM.