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Originally Posted by Frank Srebro
Edgar that sounds like fun and especially so close to home. I've shot registered FITASC quite a few times in years past while at sporting tournaments. Always very challenging and with few if any feel good targets, and typically favoring long barreled guns and heavy choking in both barrels. I assume your Hartford peg menus can be changed by shooters for casual shooting and that might open it up to those who want to get into the game slowly and/or with light upland guns.
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You're right, Frank. I used to shoot in my back field and despite having a little bit of land, prefer not to anymore, so as not to upset the closer neighbors. We give the menu a passing glance, and take it as a 'suggestion', but inevitably, vary it a bit. sometimes you have to go back and break the easier targets, for a 'feel good' before going back to the one that gives nightmares. No question on needing long and tight chokes. Leave that grouse gun home, although I will say I had fun with my 30" tight 28ga.
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Originally Posted by Stan Hillis
I used to occasionally shoot FITASC when I competed in NSCA seriously. Though I punched into M class in sporting I never really got serious about FITASC. There are a little too many stringent rules for me to warm up to it. I enjoyed the long, challenging targets they often threw, but I was trying too hard not to break some rule, that didn't exist in registered sporting, to be able to concentrate on my shooting as needed.
One thing I did notice shooting FITASC is that I was either "on" or "off", there was no in between for me. I had to get into a rhythm with my mount and swing that some days clicked and some days didn't. I guess I just never shot it enough to get good at it.
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I can see your point, Stan. None of us are shooting dedicated target guns, but where the less than perfect fitting guns are ok at Sporting clays, It's tough to call for a bird, then mount a gun that doesn't fit. Jay Oliver remarked that a slightly shorter LOP might be better here, than one too long. I think FITASC 'rules' say 1oz max, but I notice the tub is full of 11/8 oz 12ga. hulls.
My wife gave me an hour last week so I could work on one target that no one was getting. I think I shot a box just getting to the point I thought I knew what was needed (12' out in front of it) but yesterday I had all I could do to even chip it.
The club has a lead reclamation company in this week, so a few of the 'way out' targets were moved in. One, in particular, launches from nearly 200 yards out, and hits the ground at a distance I used to think was outside the effective range of most shells and chokes. Also, leave the #8 shells home, 71/2 is what the doctor calls for here.