Bit of thread drift perhaps, but shooting trap successfully or flyers for that matter has to do with total concentration on the BIRD. I've a friend who shoots bunker trap low gun, willing and able to use both bbl.'s, but never remotely bringing the gun into play until the target has been loosed and is visible, uses a high grade Franchi SxS for the most part. Its his 'practice' for grouse hunting in the UP, shared w/his dog alone. He breaks scores in the low 20's w/great frequency & never discusses bags, but sometimes makes a passing remark on the quality of the season past. I doubt he puts but a couple in the bag per day or ever had any interest in doing much more that that, but he eats both when fortunate in that way, w/an old friend he stays with up there during season.. and its enough.
Don't let Joe fool ya either, he can bring those bbl.'s on guns stocked w/so much drop you'd think they were made for cranes to to shoot, rather than peoples, to the target w/alacrity & drop birds where a dog, if it was paying attention, can find it w//o much effort, stone dead or winged hard enough that an old dog can walk toit.
If you can really tell the dif. when shooting a SxS vs. an O/U or even a semi-auto, I'd guess you are <100% focused where you need to be. Joe once told me that having a gun w/o hammers is like having a dog w/o ears. I dunno, all my dogs have had 'em and paid reasonable attention. "Whoa! Whoa, you $%&#@!, Whoa!" Mine generally have, but I've seen others where that phrase is about all they ever heard, best I could tell.. and it didn't carry much weight whether their owner was using a quality SxS or not, seeing as how they seldom got to shoot anyway.
Last edited by tw; 07/10/17 07:18 PM. Reason: not sure, may not have been paying attention.
