In 2000, I took a mountaineering class.
The most valuable take away from it was “the less you carry up the mountain, the less you have to carry up the mountain.”
Which is easier? Losing some weight and changing your gear, or building your strength and cardiovascular system up to where it doesn’t matter?
For shooting,
Your condition is the greatest determinant in the entire equation.
After that, it’s how much you shoot.
Practice makes your aim much more precise. Much more controlled. All the little muscles that control that are fit.
If a person worries about 8 ounces in a shotgun, for the purposes of hitting targets, that doesn’t imply a lot of practice, or a great deal of fitness.
We are working with site pictures that we have seen hundreds, nee thousands of times.
We reproduce them in fractions of a second and then pull the trigger.
The lower your condition, the more difficult that is.
Within the professional sporting Clay circuits you can’t help but see the ever increasing level of fitness in the top shooters.
Edited to add:
Time waits for no man.
Also, everybody should have as many Shotguns of as many types and styles as they can afford, and enjoy them freely in every possible way they can.
It ain’t always about hitting the target.
Last edited by ClapperZapper; 03/12/26 02:03 PM.
