shotkam camera

[Bill W]

I bought a shotkam camera to clamp onto my shotgun barrel.  It's to help me evaluate my hits (and misses) so I can understand it better.  I think I'm having an issue of too much lead on ducks.  This happened late in the season when I was hunting from a blind with friends.  I was missing frequently and I think I was too far out in front based on how a friend told he he was holding.   Once I start out at the local skeet range I'll be able to better evaluate things.

[Bill W]

I'm thinking no one attaches cameras to their shotguns to improve their shooting.

[Henrydog]

Its a tool I guess.  I have always just had another shooter stand right behind me.  I shoot at lot of ATA trap, about 15,000 shells a years,

 I'm not a skeet guy but my questions would be.....are you using the same shotgun for ducks as you are in skeet?  Same choke (I doubt) and same shells (I doubt)

You might be better severed with several chokes and several types of waterfowl shells and spending the day at a patterning board.  It is rather boring.

Since your misses are in a blind, I guess is that your feet and hips did not allow you to swing through and your misses are actually behind from stopping the gun. 

Take it with a gain of salt, just the random thoughts of a guy who spends 4 days a week and every extra penny shooting a shotgun

[Bill W]

The center of the pattern is the center of the pattern regardless of the choke.    You are definitely correct that the stance in the duck blind isn't the same as when on the skeet range.    What I want to confirm is whether I'm shooting in front of some ducks.   It seems I use two different types of lead.  On the skeet range I shoot low gun and swing thru.  In the duck blind and also when hunting (read that: shooting at) doves I seem to put the gun in front of the target and shoot when I have a similar lead to skeet targets.  For the most part this works for me but when I'm overthinking things shooting goes to hell in a handbasket.   I want a visual of how I'm missing some of those shots so once I learn why I can forget it and go back to automatic.

I shoot two different guns, a Citori 725 and a Browning Maxus.   Both are stocked the same for me and have virtually the same POI.

We made our own wood patterning board so we could pattern steel waterfowl loads at the local gun range.  The local gun ranges uses a steel sheet for patterning and I don't want any pellets to bounce back, much less pock mark the steel sheet.  We also measure off the distance rather than winging the distance estimate.

I usually go thru three flats of ammo on skeet prior to the opening of doves.  Also shoot low gun to get used to good gun mounting.

[Henrydog]

Chokes vary wildly....especially Brownings factory ones...they are much looser than advertised.

[Bill W]

Went to the skeet range a week ago and shot with the camera for the first time.  Very enlightening.   Watching the videos in slomo is almost more fun than shooting clays.  Can't post any of the videos here as the smallest is around 48 Megs.  Or I should add I don't know how to attach a 48 meg or bigger video.

[Blacktail Sniper]

Don't know how to do it myself, but sure someone can help if you don't, but go to youtube and put them there, then add the links here...