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I am a natural, I think, with handguns. I consistently shoot tight accurate groups and kindof always have.

That is why I was so flummoxed when I got my shotgun and could not hit a clay pigeon to save my life. I had to work really hard at it, every week, for months, and at the end I was still only 15 for 20 on a good day.

Hunting alone most of the time, I actually began to think my dogs would never understand the goal. I thought they would forever think the whole purpose for being there was to watch the pretty birds fly away! Luckily, with my dad coming along a few times and helping with the shooting, we were able to down a few.

I think my shotgun fits, and I understand fit is everything in shotgunning... I have had folk look at my gun "on me".... but it just didn't come easy the way pistol shooting did.

I'm home. We stayed an hour and a half. I could have stayed hours longer, but I'm grateful Steve took me at all and when he said he was ready to go, I didn't kick up a fuss. Besides, no whistle players came.

I reeked so bad of cigarette smoke that I came home and scrubbed from head to toe.

Mighty good music though.

You point a shotgun, you don't "aim" it like a rifle...focus on the target, looking over the gun, keep the barrel swinging if you're wing shootin'...course you've heard this and I'm bein' redundant...sorry...

but I've missed easy shots too...the dogs lookin' at me...their eyes sayin', "wth?"...

Evening, folks!

Hair, do you intend to complain to the Admin Moderator about some of those nasty keywords on the thread? (See 22706 & #22735).