bazguevara Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 I shot 40 bird sporting at the BASC fair in Bodelwyddan today, it was my 3rd time shooting a shotgun, 1st outing with my new shotgun (Miroku 6000, 28", full,3/4) and 1st ever comp. After a slow start I started to get into the swing of things and managed a not too embarrassing 31/40. I think I'll be spending every moment of free time at the clay ground from now on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webber Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Looks like you'r doing quite well, but I'm not sure why you are useing such tight chokes on sporting? 1/4 & 1/2 would do it for me. webber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazguevara Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 To be honest I didn't buy it for sporting but I figured if I can hit them with that I can hit them with anything. Once I've got a bit more cash I'll probably be buying a multi. I'm guessing that using fibre wads might spread the pattern a bit more than plastic so I was using Just Cartridges' CSP fibre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJN Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 you'll enjoy cleaning the gun afterwards then, the fibre wads are not the cleanest thing to shoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazguevara Posted June 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) They were actually pretty clean, hardly anything visible after shooting, I let the bore cleaner do its thing for about 10 mins and it was clean after about 4/5 passes with the wire brush, cloth was fairly manky tho. I don't know if I'm doing it properly, it's the first time I've ever done it! Edited June 28, 2008 by bazguevara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky T Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Congrats on the score - not bad going at all for only the third outing Good for you! Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 Well done Baz, I would echo what Webber has said, for Sporting targets 1/4 & 1/2 is plenty. Keep letting us know how you're getting on, it's good to see somebody coming into the sport and doing well. Cat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 (edited) I'd go further, unless you are shooting at long sporting targets then skeet & skeet will do you. Long can be defined as way longer than you will have yet seen, blokes have a habit of exaggerating distances (so Mungler and LV tell me anyway!) I used to be a choke fiddler, I admit it and I thought it made a massive difference. Not shot a lot in the last 6 months but I the 1000 I have shot I used whatever was in the gun (skeet & skeet rhino's) with No8 CCI claybusters. Ok not a lot of targets but there wasn't a single sporting target in there that I didn't break at least a few times with those chokes. My view now is that if you are in the right place with skeet and 8's you'll break the target, at extreme range you might need to tighten up the chokes but at normal grounds you won't see extreme range. My experience thus far, and it's not extensive, is that you are MUCH more likely to be fooled by the course setter than you are to miss because you read the target PERFECTLY and put the shot in EXACTLY the right place but somehow the pattern you threw had bigger than clay sized holes in it! Just my view Edited June 28, 2008 by pin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted June 28, 2008 Report Share Posted June 28, 2008 but I figured if I can hit them with that I can hit them with anything i think sometimes that can be a good attitude!! hit em with tighter chokes could make you a better shot!!! Are they fixed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazguevara Posted June 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2008 Are they fixed? Yeah they're fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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