Not fishing related but I trust this board.

[dave schlick]

  Its all about fit.. I can guide you to a great shotgun forum that will tell you the same thing if you wish
http://www.shotgunworld.com/bbs/index.php
   A 50,000 dollar gun is worthless if it dont fit you.. Well i guess you could sell it..

[Abe Mathews]

For what it’s worth, I have done some gun fitting for folks before.

[todd taylor]

I had my Beretta Onyx fitted at DUNNS in Grand Junction Tenn. They took a bunch of measurements and then bent the stock in a big vat of cottonseed oil. Best move I ever made (for bird hunting) and after the fitting I was albe to hit many more birds on the “rise”. The Beretta Silver Pigeon just fit me like a glove from the moment I picked it up in the shop. Fitting is a big deal and it will make more of a difference than all of the fancy barrels and porting jobs. I have heard some very good thing about the 390 auto as well. Heck, all of this shotgun talk might get me to dust off the clay gear and give it a go….. 😉

Abe, I really like that tele and tweed in your pic.

[bob bolton]

I had to quit competition shooting some years ago because of a neck injury and spinal fusion. I can’t take any substantial recoil for a sustained period. I start to flinch even with downloaded 20 gage rounds. I had 2 Ruger Red Lable o/u’s – one 12 and one 20. I preferred the 12 for pheasant and sporting claus. I liked the 20 for skeet and ruffed. I really like an O/U for competition because you don’t have to pick up hulls and you have 2 chokes.

When I downsized, because of recoil, I went to a S X S 28 gage which I use for ruffed and sometimes even pheasant. Let me tell you, a 12 gage is murder on a pheasant – breaks bones, cracks wings. The bird usually comes down dead. But with my 28, the bird is still looking when the dog gets there. Can’t run or fly, but not dead yet.

Grouse are more honest and a 28 works just fine.

But one comment about a S X S. Instinctive shooting, which is usually all you get on grouse and timber doodles, is much better with this configuration. It’s more like pointing and swinging with a broom handle. My % of hits went way up with that gun over my 20.

Not that any of this really matters. I just felt like talking.

Godspeed,

Bob

[kevin powell]

We have new art for the mantel. (Or a way to harass my wife). I am still looking for the gun but I know what I am going with. This trophy was the original intent for post. It makes me laugh.

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