shotgun patterning
01-12-2007, 02:28 AM
#2
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 115
RE: shotgun patterning
You didn't mention what kind of gun, or if you are useing choke tubes and do they all shoot to the same POI.
Some guns have shimms in the stock which help a little, maybe. A shotgun bbl can be bent, so can the stock, sometimes the choke threads are not installed squarely with the bore and quite often, the gun simply does not fit you. If you are shooting it off the bench, try just standing and shouldering the gun, shotguns are not aimed, they should shoot where you are looking. Sitting and shooting off a bench often produces different results then when you are shooting off-handed. Sorry, I can't begin to describe what goes into fitting a scattergun to a shooter, go to a skeet/trap range and ask around for a good shotgun smith.
Doug
Some guns have shimms in the stock which help a little, maybe. A shotgun bbl can be bent, so can the stock, sometimes the choke threads are not installed squarely with the bore and quite often, the gun simply does not fit you. If you are shooting it off the bench, try just standing and shouldering the gun, shotguns are not aimed, they should shoot where you are looking. Sitting and shooting off a bench often produces different results then when you are shooting off-handed. Sorry, I can't begin to describe what goes into fitting a scattergun to a shooter, go to a skeet/trap range and ask around for a good shotgun smith.
Doug
01-12-2007, 03:21 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: west central wi USA
Posts: 2,257
RE: shotgun patterning
My buddy had a gun like that. The barrel wasn't bent, the magazine tube was. Since the barrel was attached to the magazine tube, it was off. He had a gunsmith straighten the tube. Gun shoots great now.
01-12-2007, 06:13 AM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323
RE: shotgun patterning
ORIGINAL: pdoughertyMU
If you are patterning abnormally high or low, how do you fix this?
what about left to right?
If you are patterning abnormally high or low, how do you fix this?
what about left to right?
Have you ever been fitted for a Shotgun?
01-12-2007, 08:13 AM
#5
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 266
RE: shotgun patterning
I don't necessarily think i have this problem, it just seemed as though i was hitting a little bit low last time i went shooting, as it seemed as though i had to put the actual barrel over the clay so it would shoot it. But being only my second time in 2 years at the trap range, i was definately aiming and not pointing, which might be why i am having this problem.
I was thinking first off that it is shooting very straight, since aiming with the bead would usually cause a lower pattern i would think, because the bead is a good 1/2 inch or more above the barrel. So i may just be a little paranoid. I'm sure it shoots straight and perfect, I was just curious if it would be fixable depending on what happen. The gun is very comfortable on me and am almost positive it fits well.
It is a franchi I-12- and it is working wonderfully and seems to have less recoil than my 20 ga. So i love the gun. But haven't actually patterned it yet.
I will pattern it on saturday.
I was thinking first off that it is shooting very straight, since aiming with the bead would usually cause a lower pattern i would think, because the bead is a good 1/2 inch or more above the barrel. So i may just be a little paranoid. I'm sure it shoots straight and perfect, I was just curious if it would be fixable depending on what happen. The gun is very comfortable on me and am almost positive it fits well.
It is a franchi I-12- and it is working wonderfully and seems to have less recoil than my 20 ga. So i love the gun. But haven't actually patterned it yet.
I will pattern it on saturday.
