Those who criticize light guns or heavy guns just don't know how to shoot a shotgun. Yup, they have not paid their dues on the clay target courses. Get out there and shoot and the weight of the gun will not make any difference. How hard a target is a pheasant??
Well said. Shooting a lot, not talking about shooting a lot, is where the dues are paid to learn to handle all weights of shotguns. Muscle memory is an amazing thing, but it must be programmed by much repetition. After that, just a few shots with a gun that is light years different than the one just used will recall that muscle memory. When I compete with my 31 1/2" MX8 12 gauge in a Prelim course, I have to switch to a 20 gauge 30" 687 SPII Sporting for sub gauge. Compared to the P gun it is a "feather". A few rounds through it on a warm-up five stand and I'm good to go. Nothing special about me. Anybody willing to burn enough ammo can do the same.
SRH
Stan, I don't believe that to be true at all, otherwise the world would be crawling with Digweed class shooters-and, it isn't.
Perhaps the "nothing special" part of you is that you've never had a severe injury to an extremity, are not left handed, are not cross eye dominant, or don't suffer from a host of maladys that reduce one's flexability. There was a very successful lady shooter (Carola Mandel?) from the 1960s that shot on the men's live pigeon circuit-with the gun (an O/U) mounted between her breasts, instead of on her shoulder. I've no doubt she burned a bunch of ammunition, tried a bunch of different guns, and she discovered that the conventional style of shooting wasn't going to work for her. Should she have kept burning ammunition, in the conventional style, or tried something different?
Her scores and success suggest she figured out exactly what to do.
Saying anybody can do it, if they just keep practicing, is a bunch a happy-speak crap. There are guys that can't shoot a light gun. And, guys (or women) who will struggle with a heavy gun. Or a double. Or, an O/U.
Burning ammunition won't change it, either.
Best,
Ted
