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Gervase
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 06 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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If you can get to the point where you're smoking clays at skeet ranges, then you'll be a useful game shot.
My only misgiving is that skeet guns tend to have very 'open' chokes, which limits their range as a game gun. With live quarry you tend to need to guarantee to get more pellets into a given area than when breaking clays, hence the fact that most game guns have a tighter choke.
As such, the gun you've borrowed is best suited to closer-range shooting (which is what skeet shooting, when done well, is all about). However, if it's shooting well and you're comfortable with it, to the point where you're accurate at 30 yards, then go for it. |
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Gervase
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quixote
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Bodger
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quixote
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bimini
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Gervase
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 06 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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WElcome on board Quixote - good to have another shot on the forum.
Quixote wrote: |
First of all 'Hi' to everyone as I'm a new poster here
bimini wrote: |
It has 26.5 inch o/u barrels, cylinder and 1/4 choke. Would any of you consider it at all useful as a game gun? |
Certainly not with barrels as short as 26 1/2 inches! |
Oo-er, try telling that to Messrs Churchill - they'd have your nads for paperweights with such talk! 25-inch barrels (just an inch above the legal minimum) were their stock in trade for decades, and used by many fine shots.
I take the point about the 'swingability' of more metal in front of the fore-end, but a few hours good tuition on clays at the start would hopefully iron out any tendency to 'poke'.
30-inch barrels were great in the days of the old-style Hymax fowling loads which carried on burning up the barrel, and for black powder, but such a length does add a significant amount of weight and length to the gun, and doesn't make shooting pigeons from a hide any easier.
One thing we haven't asked Bimini is build - 30-inch barrels are great if you're over six foot and built like a prop-forward, but 26-inchers are fine for most people. I'm 6ft 2in and hardly a sylph, and I can only boast 28 on my fowling piece and 26 on the shared Beretta, while the others are somewhere in between. There's an old hammer gun in the cabinet with 30, but that never gets used, while the .410 is darned near illegal |
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bimini
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