minktrapper wrote: » It seems to be next to impossible to shoot crows as they are flying directly away from you. Is this because of their slim profile as they fly away.
Jackdaw89 wrote: » What range roughly are you missing at and what load are you using. Are you hitting incoming and quartering birds fine? The shot string is so short or nonexistent for the bird flying straight away from you sometimes you just can’t get enough pellets hitting the right spot at the right time. I just shoot under the bird with a slight movement upward to spread the load a tiny bit. I use light loads this time of year and then 5/6’s when they start flying high and wising up coming into winter.
hedzball wrote: » You must swing amazingly fast. :D:D you'll never spread a load. theres a shot string.. but its not butter. 'hdz
minktrapper wrote: » Approximately 20-30 yds. I was using 28gr 7.5 clay loads. I am hitting most of the other birds but those going away shots are a bit of a joke.
Walter Mittys Brother wrote: » Shooting crows the smallest I use is 5's in a 32 gram cartridge. They are tough gits to kill humanely!
J.R. wrote: » I always find a going away shot tricky at times. At that distance with that cartridge, a crow is well within the range of being killed outright. I find with going away shots - if the crow is flying straight out from you, that you can miss under or over......depending on its flight pattern, as it departs. If a crow is going out away from you, and is rising, then you will have to fire above it so it flies into the shot pattern. If a crow is going out away from you, and is not rising, but flying straight out, then you will have to fire under it so it flies into the pattern, that you have placed in front of it. I have realised that crows are not flying as fast as we think...a second or two spent looking to see if it is rising or going straight out, before firing, will tell you whether to fire under or over. Best of luck with it.
Jackdaw89 wrote: » Well in range and like you already mentioned at 30 yards you would see feathers fly if you got some pellets hitting. Try to pattern test the cartridge on some cardboard. Missing gets frustrating and you end up just over thinking shots and with me the second I dwell on the target I’m probably gona miss. Buy a few clays and get a friend to toss them down range for practice.
Walter Mittys Brother wrote: » Shoot some DTL at your local clay ground That'll sort your problem
270WIN wrote: » try firing at a pattern plate or a large sheet of paper at about 20 yards...i bet that gun is not putting the pattern where you are looking
minktrapper wrote: » It is fitting alright. Has a few clay shooters check it out
Gorgeousgeorge wrote: » clay shooters know feck all unless they got out the measuring tape and measured you for length of pull drop at heel and drop at comb among other things i have had loads of shotguns i could shoot only ever had 2 that fit me
minktrapper wrote: » Surely if you point at their eye and my eye is looking straight down the barrel to their eye the gun fits
Gorgeousgeorge wrote: » you would think, but its a bit more complicated than that!
Walter Mittys Brother wrote: » It does work. Things only get more complicated when someone is trying to get more cash off you in my experience.
Jackdaw89 wrote: » I think theirs far to much importantance put on shotgun fit nowadays like mentioned if when mounted your eyes on the bead it fits close enough for most shooters, just like bug eye grounding is nice in a rife and it’s important to hit your animal where your aiming but a fox chest with a 55g vmax doesn’t need sub 1moa.
Gorgeousgeorge wrote: » Thats your first mistake you never look at the bead. Its like shooting with an eye closed! It will work but only so much. Its ok if you your head is mounted properly but can you mount the gun in that exact spot in a split second. Thats where gun fit comes in.
minktrapper wrote: » If the opposite eye is your master eye have you any other option but to close one eye.
