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Unread 02-03-2016, 08:27 AM   #21
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Are those patterns at 40 yards? If so that gun is very tight and pretty much dead on. There is no flaw in the right barrel that would allow a centered target to escape.
It was 38 of my paces which is about 40 yards. The patterning board is set up at the place where I shoot trap, and it's roughly the distance where I break the targets.

I counted up the holes in the picture on both targets, and they are pretty even. 51 holes from the right barrel, and 53 holes from the left. No matter how you slice it, those are two very broken targets.

That's why I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong with the gun. I shoot consistent 23's and 24's with my 1100. I have been getting 22's and 23's with the Parker left barrell, but in the teens with the right barrel. I prefer the location of the right trigger, I feel somewhat cramped with my finger on the rear trigger.

It may just be that I'm focusing more on what I'm doing when things don't feel natural.
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It was 38 of my paces which is about 40 yards. The patterning board is set up at the place where I shoot trap, and it's roughly the distance where I break the targets.

I counted up the holes in the picture on both targets, and they are pretty even. 51 holes from the right barrel, and 53 holes from the left. No matter how you slice it, those are two very broken targets.

That's why I'm thinking I'm doing something wrong with the gun. I shoot consistent 23's and 24's with my 1100. I have been getting 22's and 23's with the Parker left barrell, but in the teens with the right barrel. I prefer the location of the right trigger, I feel somewhat cramped with my finger on the rear trigger.

It may just be that I'm focusing more on what I'm doing when things don't feel natural.
Well I will go out on a limb, trap shooting is not a thinking man's game. Lose focus, have a stray thought just before you call pull or worse yet a negative or doubtful thought and odds are you'll hear the referee call "loss". The brain is a marvelous computer, it can do amazing things for us, BUT, when we feed it thoughts like "something is wrong with my right barrel, I don't shoot as good with it", things go bad on the trap field quickly and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe the left barrel will bring a better score, it will. The right barrel is shooting a nice pattern, just a tad high which is what you want on the trap field. But if you continue to believe the left barrel brings a better score on the trap field then use it and get used to the feel of the back trigger, because those thoughts will bring a better score.

PS. I have always said the perfect trap shooter needs only two qualities, no neck and a frontal lobotomy. can't lift his head off the stock and nothing on his mind.
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Your comment is on solid ground.I think your PS applies to all of the shotgun sports.Doubt is the destroyer of scores.I am living proof of it.
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I was thinking about sporting Clays were you are allowed "full use of the gun" other words it's OK to use two shells on one target. And very common to hit a missed clay on the 2nd shot. In fact average shooter better to re-shoot a missed bird and let the 2nd of a pair go.

Trap, little bit I have shot with SxS's, better to use one barrel and forget about everything else. Focus on the target not the gun. Your patterns no practical difference in barrels, if the mind says left is best use it.

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Dan: Have you patterned the spreader loads yet
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