I've participated in the UP SxS Classic several times. There's a one-man flurry event with 70-odd targets in 2 1/2 minutes. Don't think I've ever seen a rib come loose as a result of that event, and I'm not sure how much hotter you could get a sxs. You can only load and fire so fast, and it seems to me that if you were to get into the 200 range, even with a heavy glove on the leading hand (which most guys wear), you probably would not be hanging onto a gun with a splinter FE any more. And that's a lot faster shooting than a string of doubles in a trap or skeet event, because in those, you're waiting for the other guy(s) to shoot in between your own shooting. (I'd add that in the UP event, just about all the participants are using loaders--which increases their rate of fire significantly. Sometimes two loaders: one on either side, for each barrel.)

Last edited by L. Brown; 01/02/08 07:48 PM.