@El Spavo Absolutely. I actually shot my best with a 525 and the same basic gun got Sam Green to a world championship winner, or rather he got the gun there.
Move seen guys like Mark Winser shoot from hip, overhead etc. Honestly I don’t believe any gun would make a difference to me. Maybe if I was regularly hitting >97/100 then I might notice a trigger pull here or a lock time there.
I once read somewhere about George Digweed using someone else’s gun to hit some far off fast crossers the the owner, himself a champion could not hit.
Who knows, maybe the F16 in spring for me will turn out to be a F16 for my son or another B525. I really do like them and the more I get familiar with it the less ‘sexy’ the F16 becomes.
Maybe Browning trigger pulls aren’t the best or so I’m informed, but they seem ok to my novice hands and having worked with mechanical things for over four decades I would think I can legitimately claim to have a sensitive feel. Besides, I wouldn’t have any apprehension in tweaking the gizzards if so required.
I’ve tested a few guns now and apart from the size of the woodwork they all pretty much do the same thing which is throw some lead at some crockery. I really think if I can’t make the difference then I’m fooling myself if I were to think some metal tubes, some springs and leavers and a bit of woodwork could make up for my shortcomings.
Aside from patterns testing combinations I can’t see much else being significant. To me if you can hit the target in the centre with the centre of the pattern 9/10 then you’ve got what it takes. Otherwise you’re depending on a lot of variables with much less significance marking up the deficit.
Of course with my very limited experience and knowledge I’m probably taking out of my backside but no man has ever gotten the better of the laws of physics
