Thread: Expected spread for a full choked 12 gauge @ 30 meters?

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

I have summarised Mr ducks quacking. Without patterning you will go in ever decreasing circles till you disappear. Only when you know where can you look at changing things like lop, height of cheek riser, sights etc

Yes I think it's best to start off with sights first and pattern a few times, then try adjusting the stock.
Don't know what I should do permanently should any mods make any improvements.
Here is how the recoil pad sits currently, I still want to change this regardless as it's not right.

Originally Posted by kotuku

if youre shooting clays ,mount your gun "pull" now in a single movement swing the gun through the clays path -barrel will blot clay out at some point -keep going and touch trigger-ya should see an extremely satisfying sight of a lot of clay shrapnel. if you miss dont beat yaself up -just keep chipping away till you start stringing hits together.practise is probably the most important factor -it gets you plus gun to function as a single unit .

ducks geese etc .look out of the maimai pick a certain point within 20-30meters out -do this a few times -anything venturing inside those points is a target -this is usually the most effective range to land a decent dose of steel on the bird to drop it consistently .again weather etc will impact you but persist under all sorts of conditions and slowly but surely itll fall into place .I still miss a lot but Im of the "Take only what you can use school" so it suits me .not to say there haven t been days on feral geese where i cant seem to miss ,but ag ain thats just part of the whole scenario.

I do intend to shoot clays with this and will probably be my main use for this gun as it's pretty heavy to carry around compared to my SxS for field use.
Would be good to try it out this duck season too but is not chambered for the longer 3 inch shells.
I wasn't doing too well with clays when I first tried it out, i only had a cylinder choke barrel for it at the time and the clays were only breaking into 2 or 3 pieces at best.
I've got a contact who is in a clay target club but is out of town, will need to hit him up and see if I can pattern it at their club sometime.