Or to be more precise, loft in your barrels. This is a question I would dearly like an answer to, and if it has already been discussed in an earlier thread, I would be grateful for a link.
It seems to me a lot of information is available on shotgun specification, but never an indication of how high, or flat, one shotgun model is likely to shoot relative to another manufacturer's guns. To my mind, this should not be too much to ask when spending thousands of pounds on a new gun, particularly for a shooter keen to stick to a straightforward non-adjustable stock, and without having to faff about with barrel hangers and rib elevations!
Furthermore, I would like to know how the bottom barrel is designed to throw the shot relative to the top barrel, and relative to the rib. Different disciplines involve shooting targets at different ranges, so it seems to me a gun suited to DTL distances will be less than ideal for OT, for example. In certain light conditions, it is sometimes possible to make out the lead shot when standing behind another shooter, even with my far from perfect vision, and I have concluded that a lot of OT targets are missed high with the first barrel and low with the second, suggesting that the majority of non-adjustable trap guns are designed for closer range targets. Makes commercial sense given the relative numbers shooting these disciplines, I suppose, but then again manufacturers might sell more guns if they marketed them as specific to a particular discipline with barrels 'zeroed' to suit rather than suggesting that one trap gun will do for all trap targets.
So I expect a bunch of replies suggesting pattern plates, practice, just shoot the damn thing, don't get bogged down with technicalities, or that full adjustibility is the only answer, but this would be to miss the point. A golfer buying a new driver can inspect its degrees of loft, accurate to fractions of a degree, stamped on the clubhead for his/her contemplation before buying, so why can't shooters be afforded a similar indication of performance?
It seems to me a lot of information is available on shotgun specification, but never an indication of how high, or flat, one shotgun model is likely to shoot relative to another manufacturer's guns. To my mind, this should not be too much to ask when spending thousands of pounds on a new gun, particularly for a shooter keen to stick to a straightforward non-adjustable stock, and without having to faff about with barrel hangers and rib elevations!
Furthermore, I would like to know how the bottom barrel is designed to throw the shot relative to the top barrel, and relative to the rib. Different disciplines involve shooting targets at different ranges, so it seems to me a gun suited to DTL distances will be less than ideal for OT, for example. In certain light conditions, it is sometimes possible to make out the lead shot when standing behind another shooter, even with my far from perfect vision, and I have concluded that a lot of OT targets are missed high with the first barrel and low with the second, suggesting that the majority of non-adjustable trap guns are designed for closer range targets. Makes commercial sense given the relative numbers shooting these disciplines, I suppose, but then again manufacturers might sell more guns if they marketed them as specific to a particular discipline with barrels 'zeroed' to suit rather than suggesting that one trap gun will do for all trap targets.
So I expect a bunch of replies suggesting pattern plates, practice, just shoot the damn thing, don't get bogged down with technicalities, or that full adjustibility is the only answer, but this would be to miss the point. A golfer buying a new driver can inspect its degrees of loft, accurate to fractions of a degree, stamped on the clubhead for his/her contemplation before buying, so why can't shooters be afforded a similar indication of performance?