A post by Mr Faulds on chokes got me thinking about whether tightening your chokes and using sub 7 shot
would improve your scores in the long run?
I am not saying we all go full and full and use 6.5's but by tightening the chokes and using bigger shot so you get a much smaller pattern so you have
to be accurate.
In the beginning your scores would drop I have no doubt but that would mean you have to concentrate more and force yourself to be more
accurate rather than just pulling the trigger when you know you are in the general area of a kill zone. It would force you to put the shot where it must go
not "oh that will do even if I get a chip it's still a kill".
It strikes me that shooters of Mr.Faulds standards have to always be on the ball and has a better understanding of where the clay is going and what it is doing.
The rest of us just pull the trigger when we know we are in the general area of the kill zone (well I do anyway) and when the clay breaks we don't care if it's front back side as long
as the clay breaks.
(oh look I just straighted that stand I must be a stunning shot!) No you might have chipped all 10 and that is not accuracy. You could use number 8's and quarter chokes which would give you a large margin of error that means that you don't necessarily have to be that accurate in other words your concentration will drop and you might miss more.
we should care, we should be striving for balls of dust.
I have been told that when the shot reaches the clay in most cases, it is the size of a dustbin lid so why are we missing?
large chokes number 8's and we know we can be in the general area to get a kill that's probably what most people do.
If we smoke the first couple of clays on a stand with tight chokes and large shot then we know exactly where we have to be when we pull the trigger. Not oh that's the general area.
lot's of love,
Ramblings of a fool.
P.S. I'm going full & full and no.5's............not
would improve your scores in the long run?
I am not saying we all go full and full and use 6.5's but by tightening the chokes and using bigger shot so you get a much smaller pattern so you have
to be accurate.
In the beginning your scores would drop I have no doubt but that would mean you have to concentrate more and force yourself to be more
accurate rather than just pulling the trigger when you know you are in the general area of a kill zone. It would force you to put the shot where it must go
not "oh that will do even if I get a chip it's still a kill".
It strikes me that shooters of Mr.Faulds standards have to always be on the ball and has a better understanding of where the clay is going and what it is doing.
The rest of us just pull the trigger when we know we are in the general area of the kill zone (well I do anyway) and when the clay breaks we don't care if it's front back side as long
as the clay breaks.
(oh look I just straighted that stand I must be a stunning shot!) No you might have chipped all 10 and that is not accuracy. You could use number 8's and quarter chokes which would give you a large margin of error that means that you don't necessarily have to be that accurate in other words your concentration will drop and you might miss more.
we should care, we should be striving for balls of dust.
I have been told that when the shot reaches the clay in most cases, it is the size of a dustbin lid so why are we missing?
large chokes number 8's and we know we can be in the general area to get a kill that's probably what most people do.
If we smoke the first couple of clays on a stand with tight chokes and large shot then we know exactly where we have to be when we pull the trigger. Not oh that's the general area.
lot's of love,
Ramblings of a fool.
P.S. I'm going full & full and no.5's............not
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