More Drop, please

[Stan Hillis]

Floating a bird or target is just unnatural to a shooter. If a person learned to shoot a high patterning shotgun that way, and never picked up another gun, it would still yield inconsistent results. I had a dear friend who shot that way. He was a dove shooter, quail hunter and several of us began shooting sporting clays together. We all wanted desperately to improve our game at sporting, and we did, but Charles plateaued out in the high 60s. One of our friends tried to tell Charles that floating the bird was part of his problem but he adamantly insisted he'd always shot that way and it wasn't an issue. To prove his point he pointed his gun to the top of a pine tree and easily knocked a pine cone off the limb. He looked at his buddy and said "See!". His buddy said "Yep, it works for you, almost 70% of the time.". Charles realized it then, and hung his head.

[mobirdhunter]

Please don’t think I’m arguing—I’m not. You all have more shots fired (experience) than I, but in 60 plus years of shooting, and keeping records for the last 40, I’m okay with shooting 65% on wild quail. It’s natural to me to float the bird and I know when I really “see” the bird, I’ll generally hit it.

Besides, someone has to own those high stocked, straight/splinter two trigger guns.