There are only two books that one needs to learn how to or to improve how they shoot a shotgun - "Churchills Shotgun Book", either edition, and Bob Bristers "The Art and Science of shotgunning". All other shotgunning books and articles combined don't match these two in the quality and clarity of information. Once I learned and bought into the Churchill method I shot birds and clays very well, though I always held my muzzle a bit lower than in the picture from his book above. The other day while failing miserably at shooting lefty, I tried holding the muzzle a tad higher than in this picture and the rest was/is history and I smashed most every clay with two different guns after that, and it seemed effortless. As for the 25" bbls, my best grouse/woodcock gun is a 24" PHE 16 that works brilliantly in any situation in hvy cover or over pointing dogs on more open ground. 25" would be just fine for what they were intended for.
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