Thread: Rifle shooter or shotgun shooter

Which are you? Some of us are both. Me Im a rifle shooter spent my whole life on rifles own and owned a few shot guns but just cant master them. Cant even hit a possum in a tree at 15m right in front of me. Given the claybirds a go and can hit them sometimes but not enough to be enjoyable. Ill stick to my rifles...

Bad at both

Originally Posted by MB

Bad at both

Yep, I just have more experience being bad with the shotty

Have been a pretty casual bird/clay shooter in the past with family. I am no duck slayer but I've always found shotguns pretty intuitive.

Now I'm getting interested in centrefire. In the past the ballistics & initial outlay required for a rifle put me off. Guess I'm getting older because I have more patience for the process now (and a bit more money for the set up )

consistency is the main thing @mb

Both, and thanks to having a brno 201 I can occasionally do both simultaneously.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

Both, and thanks to having a brno 201 I can occasionally do both simultaneously.

photos of this mystical beast......its not u/o with 7x57 barrels is it??? saw photos of one in rod n rifle ..must be 30 years ago now,always struck me as great idea
I can cheat and do it now too....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

photos of this mystical beast......its not u/o with 7x57 barrels is it??? saw photos of one in rod n rifle ..must be 30 years ago now,always struck me as great idea
I can cheat and do it now too....

I'll get a photo for you when I get home, yes it is 7x57 over 12 and I've got a set of 12/12 full chokes for it as well.

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

I'll get a photo for you when I get home, yes it is 7x57 over 12 and I've got a set of 12/12 full chokes for it as well.

Sounds like my old one I sold about 20 yrs ago had a set 12 barrels missus left a trail of 7x57r in the bush behind gizzy when I took her with me with the gun broken . cool trigger front was rifle first then pull again for lower barrel or back trigger for lower 12g also front was a set trigger if pushed forward . I disconected the auto safety , prick of a job , my boy managed to dunk it in lake wairarapa duck shooting .

Originally Posted by m101a1

Sounds like my old one I sold about 20 yrs ago had a set 12 barrels missus left a trail of 7x57r in the bush behind gizzy when I took her with me with the gun broken . cool trigger front was rifle first then pull again for lower barrel or back trigger for lower 12g also front was a set trigger if pushed forward . I disconected the auto safety , prick of a job , my boy managed to dunk it in lake wairarapa duck shooting .

That's the style and yes it's easy to loose rounds on the carry especially if bush bashing. Micky will be disappointed to see it's not a drilling but I still like it though.

I'll elaborate, grew up shooting shotguns and air rifles, so have the basics and can make straightforward shots. Air rifles were a good start for rimfire and then centrefire shooting. Unfortunately, rimfire aside, I just don't have enough opportunity to progress my skills. As we all know, practice makes perfect!

Airguns, rifles and sidearms are my go to.

I think a lot of us started on the humble air rifle. Mine was a baikal man did I shoot some stuff with that..took out a whole platoon of my army men that had advanced to withinn the top rail of the fence opposite our patio.

Greetings all,
Never got into shotguns. I did own one for a while, a pump with two barrels one with rifle sights. Never fired it, not even once. Finally sold it and bought a range finder.
GPM.

shotguns have to fit. If they dont fit you wont hit much. keep both eyes open and it isn't about aiming. also just remember that at 15 metres depending on the shotty, it may not have started to spread much yet. It has not yet reached the 3 foot circle of death and may only be 200mm wide in the pattern. if you are a little off with the shotgun as in fit, then no you may well not have the required results.

Yea I find shotgun quite instinctive style shooting, the oppposite to rifle shooting