Tough to shoot guns that come in that light...
No, it is not. If you already know how to shoot it just takes a little practice. If you don't know how to shoot then yes, you are going to have a hard time with a light gun. And you are going to have a hard time with a heavy gun too.
Mike, you and Bill and Stan and John are making way too much of Ted's remark. I believe you all speak from the perspective of the maybe one-half of one percent -- extremely committed, highly skilled, super competitive and successful competition shooters. And your opinion is this semantic discussion about the word "tough" -- based on experience with god knows how many rounds fired per year both in practice and competition -- doesn't make sense in my world of shooting.
I love bird hunting and shoot enough targets to make most of the shots offered over my springers. I'm pretty consistent about leaving alone the shots I'm not likely to make. There's not much in my life I enjoy more than bird hunting, but there's a whole lot I enjoy more than shooting targets. I hope you don't think that disqualifies me from judging whether Ted's use of the word "tough" here is appropriate?
With all due respect to you guys, I think you've got the context wrong. You're way beyond the experience of any gun being "tough to shoot". The term itself doesn't fit your experience with any well made, well balanced gun -- like Pete's Linders. (Pete, I've been hanging around this thread only because I'm waiting for pics -- where are they??!)
Ted's statement isn't a bit wrong. From my perspective, there's more truth in it than in Mike's quoted above. I'm not going to elaborateg on why I think it so, but there are lots of guy who "know how to shoot" (my definition may differ from yours) who'll find it much "tougher" to shoot a gun that weighs 5-1/2 lbs. than one that weighs 6-1/2 or more. You guys seem to me off on a tangent about practice. Taking and judging the statement as offered, the question of whether or not practice will make shooting light guns "not tough" is beside the point.
Jay
