I've never been a sporting clays shooter. Can someone please tell me if "shoe top muzzle rests" are a thing amongst trap shooters? (And if so, how many feet does the average trap shooter have?)
It is very common for the clay shooting crowd - more so at the trap range. The first time I saw it it didn’t sit well with me. The one thing though that one gets used to is that most of them (us) have break-open, over-under shotguns. So there is no way they can fire. I know that if I am shooting rifles or handguns I am very aware of where my muzzle is, and where others are as well.
At the clays, I’m only paying attention to the guys with semi-autos or pumps..
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I used to be a skeet instructor at Southern Miss.
One of my students who was the state champion told me way back in 1989 that these were quite common. I could not believe it but it must have been true.
Must have been an affirmative action hire that came up with the idea. Affirmative action in this case, hiring someone that has never touched a gun or been around them.
Perhaps this product could be remarketed as, "the matchmaker."
The idea still makes me a bit squeamish.
Maybe it’s extra-thick leather.
The guys in the video pretty much discredited themselves. Acting like ignorant idiots and spreading misinformation, for what? Clicks?
What can you say
LOL. I remember reading a book, WAR IS A PRIVATE AFFAIR by LOVE years ago in which a Marine was given three purple hearts because of something similar to this.
A Jap sniper took a shot at him, so he was determined to get the sniper.
He slipped around, crouched over, unaware he was now right under the sniper who pointed his rifle straight down. As he stood up, he hit the muzzle of the rifle, which the Jap fired right beside his ear, hit him in the toe, as he fell back he shot up killing the sniper who fell out of the tree and landed helmet first in the Marine’s stomach. The marine grabbed a helmet, not his own, laying on the ground which had a big bullet hole in it.
So he was given a Purple Heart for each injury, a injured ear, a bruised stomach, a head injury because of the helmet with a hole in it.
Then he was arrested for “shooting himself in the foot to avoid combat.”
This article is idiotic. You shoot a break open shotgun and rest the barrel on it. It is visibly unloaded and broken open and of course perfectly safe. It’s as safe as looking down the barrel to run a cleaning rod down it. Yes trap shooters use them all the time, people shooting autoloaders or pumps don’t use them for the obvious reason.
I even googled it. I have never heard of an injury from one, and you can’t find one with google. It is a real product and at a big shoot, there are probably 300 in use. Nobody has ever been hurt that I know of, and Google can’t find it either.
if you think this may be a bad product, remember Jarts?
Maybe a great way to off your kids.
Not unusual to see these in use by trap and skeet shooters, but only with break open shotguns. Not so common in sporting clays, where the shooter usually places their gun in a rack or on a cart while waiting their turn to shoot.
Never heard of an incident involving one of these.