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  1. Thanks for all the advice guys. I think my gunmount is fine and gunfit pretty good.

     

    Ed, you could be onto something, I have been using maintained lead now for about 1 year, mainly on crossers to decrease my gun speed which in the past I had felt was excessive. That has worked very well and I am now a proponent of MT for certain targets. However, on the fast quartering birds I don't use MT but some form of swing through / pull away. It is mainly on these presentations and the very technical presentations that I lose the bird barrel relationship and hence cannot replay where I have gone wrong in order to correct. I also have a tendency to shoot too quickly, fast trap style targets, shooting instinctively sometimes before I have focussed fully on the target, inconsistency here as well. Slow down I hear you say, this is harder than you think. Hence I thought the easyhit bead might register better at the point of pulling the trigger (of course not looking at bead)and allow me to make necessary adjustments, any thoughts on that? Thanks for the offer of a round, I am based in north lancs, Kingsley is about as far south as I go but have said I should visit kegworth sometime.

     

    Once again thanks for all advice.

  2. I am an A class shooter at the bottom end of A struggling with consistency. My problem is I find it incredibly difficult to correct myself after a missed target. This invariably means more misses in the same place. I can hit most targets but just not all of them. Having missed I have no real idea where my barrel was when I pulled the trigger and hence can't compensate consistently. I am wondering whether an easy hit flourescent bead my make it easier for my brain to register the bead in my peripheral vision?

    Any advice gratefully received.

  3. I find this discussion very interesting. I have a Guerini impact with adjustable rib and adjustable comb. With the rib set in its uppermost position, ie parallel to the barrels it shoots flat, i.e 50:50 at 25yds. If I turn down the rib at the muzzel end I can make it shoot high, anything from 60:40 to 80:20 depending on how low I set the rib. I have also noticed that adjusting the comb up or down by any reasonable amount i.e 1/8 - 1/4 inch has very little impact (no pun intended) on the POI. I conclude from this that it is the rib configuation in relation to the barrel that effects POI the most. Obviously if you aim like a rifle and set the comb too high the gun will shoot high. John Bidwell can shoot clays from the hip with his eye about 2 feet above the barrels and still hit the clay, that is because he is looking at the clay not the rib!

  4. I don't necessarily think we are Diceman, just interested to see the spread of prices and whether there is any regional bias.

    I do think £37 for a 100 esp open is pushing it though. On the other hand we do see an increasing number of birds only entries, that in itself suggests that the competition prices are becoming unaffordable for some which inevitably has an impact on the class payouts for competition entry, a bit of a viscious circle?

  5. I have an impact, bought from Malmo. Great gun, great value for money, I am still tweaking it though? Rib, stock, balance. Shoots fine but I am always tempted to fiddle if I don't think I've shot well enough. I MUST get out of that habit. Planning a trip to the

    Pattern plate at Coniston to convince myself

    To leave

    Well

    Alone.

  6. I have an impact, bought from Malmo. Great gun, great value for money, I am still tweaking it though? Rib, stock, balance. Shoots fine but I am always tempted to fiddle if I don't think I've shot well enough. I MUST get out of that habit. Planning a trip to the

    Pattern plate at Coniston to convince myself

    To leave

    Well

    Alone.

  7. The cg Summit impact is a great gun, i use it for mainly sporting with some trap and skeet. Just remember once you've set it up leave it. There is a great temptation to twiddle with the stock, the rib, the balance and the trigger. My advice is don't be tempted to mess about once you have set it up. Shoot it for 6 months before you twiddle again!

  8. -A big shame, although not a big trap fine i payed a few visits and always found everyone very friendly. I'm not sure the 'old timers' will travel to fauxdegla though! RIP A6..

     

    But what happens to Bolton Gun Club who shoot on the same site, presumably its RIP BGC as well?

  9. Well, I don't post on here often but when I do I certainly get my monies worth!

     

    Seriously though, many thanks for all the responses, advice and experiences. On balance, I think the jury is still out on whether mullers are better than other chokes and whether the advertising is hype or reality. If it was obvious they could get me from mid A to AA by the end of the season, I would try a U2/U3 set, as it is'nt I won't. If I have a 100 quid burning a hole in my pocket I know who to give it to. Until then I will stick to my Guerini Maxis, now, they are awesome chokes ....!!

     

    PS: funnily enough the jury seems to be out in the US as well as per a forum I sometimes dip into over there.

     

    THanks again

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