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

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    There is no rear sight on this, are rear sights common on shotguns? My SxS only has a bead at the front.
    I hear a bit from some who say to shoot with both eyes open with a shotgun, ive tried doing that and it looks cross-eyed to me

    The stocks are not adjustable on these, but you can probably get aftermarket adjustable stocks.
    I did add a limbsaver recoil pad to it which has extended the stock by 20mm.
    Not sure if that would affect anything .

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    Nope. Nearly all normal non tacti-cool shorties have a rear sight.
    Maybe a a second bead halfway down the barrel but that's it.
    Yes both eyes open but you may be like me.
    Right handed but dominant left eye.
    Basically looking down side of barrel

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    Quote Originally Posted by csmiffy View Post
    Nope. Nearly all normal non tacti-cool shorties have a rear sight.
    Maybe a a second bead halfway down the barrel but that's it.
    Yes both eyes open but you may be like me.
    Right handed but dominant left eye.
    Basically looking down side of barrel
    That's interesting you say that.
    I've just taken a look at both barrels, the old skeet barrel has a threaded holenon the rail where a sight presumably was screwed into, not too sure why it was removed, and the full choked field barrel has the remains of the sight in the thread and appears to have been snapped off.
    I probably need more target practice as really only have had experience with rifles, but a while ago when I first had a go at clay targets with a friend, I was hitting them second nature and wasnt even trying.
    Have no idea what choke my mates gun had, but it felt too easy at the time.
    Got to figure out how to remove this broken sight out of the rail in the meantime and look for a replacement sight.

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    Not a rear sight at all...I'm suggesting just "something" a blob of chewing gum will do to start with to raise your eye and tip shotgun slightly upwards,lifting pattern. You've added limbsaver is good, but making longer CAN cause you to shoot low until you learn basics. Seriously once you know what's supposed to happen it's easy with plurry near any set up. At present...and this isn't your first lot of shotgun questions...your doing something along the lines of mismatched scop based n rings and scope is ducktaped in place while trying to shoot at mice at 200 yards using ammunition your grandpa condemned as too old to use.
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    As for your mates gun... Yip it fitted you better. No big deal.bonus is you know you can shoot ok...just need to sort your shit. One smelly lump at a time.
    75/15/10 black powder matters

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    Lol, that might actually work for the time being.
    I'm sure I cam come up with a makeshift sight.
    I'm starting to think that the limbsaver might be causing half the problems now.
    What i recently discovered is that the models with a factory recoil pad have a shorter stock to compensate for the thickness of the pad and my one doesn't fit on there properly.
    If I can find a spare stock that I can swap over might sort it out.

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    further to mickey ducks suggestion you can find a bit of foam rubber ,yoga mat ,sleeping mat or similar cut a piece to size and fold in half then tape it to the butt.see what impact that has on your aim.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kotuku View Post
    further to mickey ducks suggestion you can find a bit of foam rubber ,yoga mat ,sleeping mat or similar cut a piece to size and fold in half then tape it to the butt.see what impact that has on your aim.
    Yeah I was actually thinking of removing the recoil pad and try it without and see if there is any difference.
    It doesn't even fit properly on the stock which is probably part of the problem, I now realize the reason was because it's designed for stocks that had a recoil pad from factory and were shorter to begin with.

 

 

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