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Unread 04-17-2020, 07:57 PM   #1
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The market was saturated with 26- and 28-inch barrel skeet guns so the manufacturers got their pros to start shooting longer barrel guns and the public followed. Ca-ching!!
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The market was saturated with 26- and 28-inch barrel skeet guns so the manufacturers got their pros to start shooting longer barrel guns and the public followed. Ca-ching!!
Before the 30” Skeet gun thing really took off there was a retired military shooter from the Oceana or Langley clubs in VA that I used to see often . Anyway he was shooting a Winchester 101 field gun with 30” screw chokes in the 12 gauge event . Many people rolled their eyes at him then , but he shot well enough to be low AA or high A . Now years later after having shot that game a long time if I’ve got my s..t wired right I can go out and break 25 straight with a 30 or 32 inch full choke 10 or 12 and then shoot the next round with a 26” full choked IJ 410 and get 24 or 25 . All that goes to show if you’re minds in the game gauge , barrel length and chokes to a degree are not deal breakers or deal makers .
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My 682X Trap 32" gun was a strange sporting clays gun when I started shooting it in about 1985, but today it is the "gun of the day". I am still shooting it in 2022 and there is no other gun that will do the job better. Some of our posters are asking "When did the 32" gun become popular for sporting clays?" Although I built the my 32" heavy sporting clays gun in about 1985, long before any registered SC organizations like USSCA and NSCA got a start, they didn't become popular for a few years after that. Dallas Berry and his friends at the Wardensville West Virginia range were all ATA trapshooters and probably used their trap guns initially. At that range, full chokes were necessary for a good portion of the shots and screw chokes were banned. In today's world, 50 and 55 yard sporting targets are addressed with less than full chokes, but not in 1985.
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