KY Jon, nothing wrong with short barrels if you think you shoot just as well with them. They certainly are cheaper, now. However:
Pigeons, flyers, which you mentioned, are as far from clay games as it gets. I submit that if the shooters who take the big money regularly could get on the bird more effectively, i.e. faster, with a shorter gun they would be using them. This is dead serious stuff, for big money. I shot in a flyer match with Cooley, Scotten and several of the other top flyer shooters recently and they all shoot long barreled guns. At least, all of them that I saw. And it can't be said that they just use the same guns they use for clays. Scotten doesn't even shoot clays, says he's afraid it would mess up his flyer shooting. Getting the first shot into the pigeon as fast as possible is always the name of the game, and if it could be done more effectively with a shorter gun somebody would have discovered that by now, especially when that kind of money is riding on every shot.
Stan
