Thread: Summer Shotgun Practicing

jakewire, any gun for Sporting when you start. there are specific 'Sporting guns' so called usually shooting slightly high. Mine for example shoots 70/30- 70% above the point of impact 30% below. Means I can see the target above my barrel at all times.
They are normally 30-36 (rare, but a couple around at 36inch) and are more like a trap gun as to a skeet one.
I read this the other day and you may find it interesting.

""To understand the differences, it can be helpful first to look at the different types of targets presented in the two disciplines, Down the Line and Sporting.

Trap targets are always going away from you and, at the point you shoot them, they are rising.

They are also projected within an arc of about 60 degrees in front. Targets in the different trap disciplines vary slightly, but that’s the general picture.

To tackle rising targets, a trap gun is configured so that it shoots slightly high. This enables the shooter to fire with the target in view just above the muzzle end of the rib, and hit it right in the middle of the pattern.

As the target is retreating from the shooter at quite a rapid rate, choking is usually quite tight: 3/4in the lower barrel (which is fired first), and full in the top.

Also, when tackling trap targets you don’t have to swing the gun as quickly or as far as you do in Sporting, so the gun can be heavier (which helps to soak up recoil), and also steadier in its handling.

Many trap guns weigh over 8lb.

As you can see, it is a tool designed to do a job, and it isn’t much use for anything other than trap.

Sporting, however, is designed to be a simulation of field shooting, and the variety of targets is limited only by the course setter’s imagination and, of course, safety considerations.

Targets can be incoming, outgoing, crossing, quartering, rising, falling, curling – in fact doing almost anything a wild bird can do.

The Sporter, therefore, needs to be designed as a sort of ‘compromise’ gun.

It shoots closer to point of aim than a trap gun, is less tightly choked (1/4 and 1/4 being the norm in a fixed-choke), and its handling and balance are designed for fast swinging.

Sporters usually weigh between 7.1/2lb and 7.3/4lb.

Being a compromise gun in the way it handles, balances and shoots, you can also use a Sporter for skeet as well as pigeon and game shooting.

That’s why we usually advise newcomers to pick a Sporter as their first gun.

To describe perfectly look at: About Skeet - Trap - Sporting Clays - Five Stand - Clay Targets
Diagrammatically explains the shotgunning codes differences.
We shoot a version of 5 stand (Compak) as well as Sporting. Look at the https://www.facebook.com/pages/South...73?ref=profile page and the NZ Compak photos.
We ran this shoot the other day and the photos (past the aerial ones) will show you typical Compak layouts.
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